Synthetic skull bone defects for automatic patient-specific craniofacial implant design.

ABSTRACT: Patient-specific craniofacial implants are used to repair skull bone defects after trauma or surgery. Currently, cranial implants are designed and produced by third-party suppliers, which is usually time-consuming and expensive. Recent advances in additive manufacturing made the in-hospital or in-operation-room fabrication of personalized implants feasible. However, the implants are still manufactured by external companies. To facilitate an optimized workflow, fast and automatic implant manufacturing is highly desirable. Data-driven approaches, such as deep learning, show currently great potential towards automatic implant design. However, a considerable amount of data is needed to train such algorithms, which is, especially in the medical domain, often a bottleneck. Therefore, we present

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7846796 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature