Title: Biometrical approach in the pelvis surgical reconstructive treatment

Authors: Pawel Skadlubowicz, Zdzislaw Krol, Zygmunt Wrobel, Fritz Hefti, Andreas Krieg

Addresses: Faculty of Computer Science and Materials Science, Department of Biomedical Computer Systems, Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, PL-41205 Sosnowiec, Poland. ' Pediatric Orthopedic Department, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. ' Faculty of Computer Science and Materials Science, Department of Biomedical Computer Systems, Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, PL-41205 Sosnowiec, Poland. ' Pediatric Orthopedic Department, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. ' Pediatric Orthopedic Department, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland

Abstract: The surgical reconstructive treatment in the pelvis area is induced mostly by the bone tumour resection. This paper presents a new method for computer-assisted reconstructive surgery-planning based on the pelvis statistical shape model. A clinical pelvis reconstruction case will demonstrate the usefulness and robustness of the statistical shape models in the oncologic surgery planning. In addition, a quantitative evaluation of the matching quality will be given. By creating the statistical shape model, we get a mathematically defined mean pelvic geometry. Knowledge about the statistical pelvic shape can have wide application in pelvimetry.

Keywords: statistical shape modelling; pelvic osteotomy; pelvic reconstruction; segmentation; computer-assisted surgery planning; pelvic tumours; bone tumour resection; oncology; pelvic geometry; statistical pelvic shape; pelvimetry.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2011.037715

International Journal of Biometrics, 2011 Vol.3 No.1, pp.76 - 84

Published online: 24 Jan 2015 *

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