Title
Localization of anatomical landmarks of the foot by surface curvature
Date Issued
01 January 2004
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Liu X.
Drerup B.
Nanyang Technological University
Publisher(s)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract
The anatomical landmarks on the body surface are important to shape and motion analysis. This paper presents a method for extracting anatomical landmarks on the foot from scattered 3D surface points collected by FastSCAN (Polhemus, Colchester, Vermont, USA). By least squares surface fitting, the surface is reconstructed from the scattered points and the Gaussian curvature and mean curvature are calculated. The landmarks formed by underlying muscles and skeletal structures distinguish themselves clearly on the Koenderink shape index maps. The loci of landmarks avail possible statistical shape analysis and medical applications such as tibial torsion measurement. Copyright © 2004 by ASME.
Start page
177
End page
178
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería médica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-20444484485
Source
Advances in Bioengineering, BED
ISSN of the container
03609960
Conference
2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE
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