解决牙科扫描与头影测量片对齐难题,提升正畸诊断准确性。
Silhouette-to-Contour Registration: Aligning Intraoral Scan Models with Cephalometric Radiographs
- 基于轮廓引导的注册框架,利用解剖轴建立统一坐标系。
- 在34例临床数据上实现后牙定位误差显著降低,轮廓匹配精度达亚像素级。
- 适合正畸医生和医学影像研究者使用,对真实临床场景鲁棒性强。
在正畸诊断中,口内扫描模型与侧位头影测量片之间的可靠三维-二维配准至关重要。然而,传统基于强度的方法在真实临床条件下表现不佳,因头影片存在投影放大、几何失真、牙齿冠部对比度低及成像差异等问题,导致外观相似性度量不稳定,常出现收敛失败或解剖学不合理对齐。为此,我们提出DentalSCR:一种姿态稳定、轮廓引导的轮廓-轮廓配准框架。该方法首先构建统一的跨弓解剖坐标系(UMDA),以稳定初始化并标准化各病例的投影几何。在此参考系下,通过基于表面的数字重建射线图(DRR)生成具有冠状轴视角和高斯点阵的类头影片投影,保留临床源-物-探测器放大关系,并突出外部轮廓。注册过程采用分层粗到精策略,优化对称双向切比雪夫距离的二维相似变换,实现大范围捕获与亚像素级轮廓一致性。我们在34例专家标注的临床案例上评估了DentalSCR,实验结果表明,后牙定位误差显著降低,下颌分布更紧密,曲线层面的切比雪夫与受控豪斯多夫距离均较低。这些发现表明,DentalSCR能有效应对真实头影片挑战,提供高保真且可临床检验的3D-2D对齐,优于传统基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reliable 3D-2D alignment between intraoral scan (IOS) models and lateral cephalometric radiographs is critical for orthodontic diagnosis, yet conventional intensity-driven registration methods struggle under real clinical conditions, where cephalograms exhibit projective magnification, geometric distortion, low-contrast dental crowns, and acquisition-dependent variation. These factors hinder the stability of appearance-based similarity metrics and often lead to convergence failures or anatomically implausible alignments. To address these limitations, we propose DentalSCR, a pose-stable, contour-guided framework for accurate and interpretable silhouette-to-contour registration. Our method first constructs a U-Midline Dental Axis (UMDA) to establish a unified cross-arch anatomical coordinate system, thereby stabilizing initialization and standardizing projection geometry across cases. Using this reference frame, we generate radiograph-like projections via a surface-based DRR formulation with coronal-axis perspective and Gaussian splatting, which preserves clinical source-object-detector magnification and emphasizes external silhouettes. Registration is then formulated as a 2D similarity transform optimized with a symmetric bidirectional Chamfer distance under a hierarchical coarse-to-fine schedule, enabling both large capture range and subpixel-level contour agreement. We evaluate DentalSCR on 34 expert-annotated clinical cases. Experimental results demonstrate substantial reductions in landmark error-particularly at posterior teeth-tighter dispersion on the lower jaw, and low Chamfer and controlled Hausdorff distances at the curve level. These findings indicate that DentalSCR robustly handles real-world cephalograms and delivers high-fidelity, clinically inspectable 3D--2D alignment, outperforming conventional baselines.
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