Automated and data-driven plate computation for presurgical cleft lip and palate treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Presurgical orthopedic plates are widely used for the treatment of cleft lip and palate, which is the most common craniofacial birth defect. For the traditional plate fabrication, an impression is taken under airway-endangering conditions, which recent digital alternatives overcome via intraoral scanners. However, these alternatives demand proficiency in 3D modeling software in addition to the generally required clinical knowledge of plate design.

Methods

We address these limitations with a data-driven and fully automated digital pipeline, endowed with a graphical user interface. The pipeline adopts a deep learning model to landmark raw intraoral scans of arbitrary mesh topology and orientation, which guides the nonrigid surface registration subsequently employed to

SUBMITTER: Schnabel TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284965 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature