Open-source graphical user interface for the creation of synthetic skeletons for medical image analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Deformable medial modeling is an inverse skeletonization approach to representing anatomy in medical images, which can be used for statistical shape analysis and assessment of patient-specific anatomical features such as locally varying thickness. It involves deforming a pre-defined synthetic skeleton, or template, to anatomical structures of the same class. The lack of software for creating such skeletons has been a limitation to more widespread use of deformable medial modeling. Therefore, the objective of this work is to present an open-source user interface (UI) for the creation of synthetic skeletons for a range of medial modeling applications in medical imaging.

Approach

A UI for interactive design of synthetic skeletons was implemented in 3D Slicer, an open-so

SUBMITTER: Herz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11092146 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature