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- Title
Estimating and abstracting the 3D structure of feline bones using neural networks on X-ray (2D) images.
- Authors
Čavojská, Jana; Petrasch, Julian; Mattern, Denny; Lehmann, Nicolas Jens; Voisard, Agnès; Böttcher, Peter
- Abstract
Computing 3D bone models using traditional Computed Tomography (CT) requires a high-radiation dose, cost and time. We present a fully automated, domain-agnostic method for estimating the 3D structure of a bone from a pair of 2D X-ray images. Our triplet loss-trained neural network extracts a 128-dimensional embedding of the 2D X-ray images. A classifier then finds the most closely matching 3D bone shape from a predefined set of shapes. Our predictions have an average root mean square (RMS) distance of 1.08 mm between the predicted and true shapes, making our approach more accurate than the average achieved by eight other examined 3D bone reconstruction approaches. Each embedding extracted from a 2D bone image is optimized to uniquely identify the 3D bone CT from which the 2D image originated and can serve as a kind of fingerprint of each bone; possible applications include faster, image content-based bone database searches for forensic purposes. Jana Čavojská et al. develop a deep learning method to estimate bone 3D structure from 2D X-ray images using abstraction-based classification. Their method is automated, agnostic to previous knowledge about bone geometry, and may be useful in forensic applications.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL neural networks; BONE testing; X-ray imaging; RADIATION dosimetry; COMPUTED tomography
- Publication
Communications Biology, 2020, Vol 3, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2399-3642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s42003-020-1057-3