Synthesis of ghost-free panoramic radiographs from dental CBCT images

Do Il Lee; Sihwan Kim; Chulkyun Ahn; Changyong Heo; Jong Hyo Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2549929

16 March 2020 Synthesis of ghost-free panoramic radiographs from dental CBCT images

Do Il Lee, Sihwan Kim, Chulkyun Ahn, Changyong Heo, Jong Hyo Kim

Proceedings Volume 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging; 113122U (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549929
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Three dimensional CT images have enabled dentists to visualize the overall anatomic structure of teeth and jawbones. Dental cone-beam CT(CBCT) images include a lot more information as compared to panoramic radiographs, but it is hard to assess overall teeth and jaw structures at a single glance. Although panoramic images facilitate the evaluation process of overall anatomic structures, they may include geometric distortions, blurs, and superimposition of multiple structures due to the spine and ghost effects. Some image viewers have a cut-viewing function that enables orthogonal viewing along the user-set dental arch. However, the orthogonal viewing looks different from the panoramic image physically taken by a panoramic scanner. To make more convenient use of CBCT images, we have developed an approach to synthesize panoramic images from the CBCT images. In the synthesis of the panoramic images, we removed the ghost and spine superimposition to improve the visibility of the synthesized panoramic images.

The panoramic image synthesis has been done in three steps. At first, we extracted the panoramic dental arch from the CBCT images. At the next step, we removed the ghost-inducing bone parts from the CBCT images. Lastly, we synthesized panoramic images by stitching thousands of partial-view panoramic projection images.

With the advantage of the synthesized panoramic image, the additional panoramic scan is not further necessary, and undesirable features of conventional panoramic radiographs (e.g., ghost artifacts or cervical spine superimposition) can be entirely removed.

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Do Il Lee, Sihwan Kim, Chulkyun Ahn, Changyong Heo, and Jong Hyo Kim "Synthesis of ghost-free panoramic radiographs from dental CBCT images", Proc. SPIE 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging, 113122U (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549929

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Panoramic photography

Radiography

Spine

Teeth

3D image processing

Skull

Computed tomography

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