Abstract
Automatic computation of breast volume data is required in post-mastectomy breast reconstructive surgery, where it is very useful to have an estimate of the volume of the tissue to be extracted in advance of the operation. Such an automated process is essential when conducting studies on large patient databases where manual volume estimation is both tedious and subjective. In this paper, we present a non-invasive automatic breast volume estimation method. It employs 3D scanned data of the torso. First, a surface underneath the breast that resembles a 'breast-less' torso is automatically constructed, and then the volume of the breast is estimated as a function of the difference between the new surface and the actual breast. We have performed a number of experiments on both synthetic and real data with very encouraging results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1319-1322 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
Volume | 2 |
State | Published - 2003 |
Event | A New Beginning for Human Health: Proceddings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Cancun, Mexico Duration: Sep 17 2003 → Sep 21 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics