Building and Testing a Statistical Shape Model of the Human Ear Canal |
| | Abstract | Today the design of custom in-the-ear hearing aids is based on personal experience and skills and not on a systematic description of the variation of the shape of the ear canal. In this paper it is described how a dense surface point distribution model of the human ear canal is built based on a training set of laser scanned ear impressions and a sparse set of anatomical landmarks placed by an expert. The landmarks are used to warp a template mesh onto all
shapes in the training set. Using the vertices from the warped meshes, a 3D point distribution model is made. The model is used for testing for gender related differences in size and shape of the ear canal. | | Keywords | statistical shape analysis, Thin Plate Spline Warp, Registration, Procrustes, Horns Parallel Analysis | | Type | Conference paper [With referee] | | Conference | Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2002, 5th Int. Conference, Tokyo, Japan, | | Year | 2002 | | Publisher | Springer | | Electronic version(s) | [pdf] | | BibTeX data | [bibtex] | | IMM Group(s) | Image Analysis & Computer Graphics |
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