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ArticleMedical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention2020

Automatic Localization of Landmarks in Craniomaxillofacial CBCT Images Using a Local Attention-Based Graph Convolution Network.

Yankun Lang, Chunfeng Lian, Deqiang Xiao, Hannah Deng, Peng Yuan, Jaime Gateno, Steve G F Shen, David M Alfi, Pew-Thian Yap, James J Xia and 1 more

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Yankun LangDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Chunfeng LianDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Deqiang XiaoDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Hannah DengDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Peng YuanDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Jaime GatenoDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Steve G F ShenDepartment of Oral and Craniofacial Surgery, Shanghai 9th Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
David M AlfiDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Pew-Thian YapDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
James J XiaDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Dinggang ShenDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Funding

Outcome-Driven Approach to Minimize the Risks of Facial Distortion Following CMF SurgeryR01DE021863 · NIDCR · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GATENO, JAIME · 2013 to 2025
$5.1M
A Novel Imaging Informatics Platform for Craniomaxillofacial SurgeryR01DE022676 · NIDCR · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GATENO, JAIME · 2011 to 2020
$4.0M
Learning-Based Approach for Personalized Craniomaxillofacial Surgical PlanningR01DE027251 · NIDCR · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GATENO, JAIME · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE021863NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE022676NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE027251
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Landmark localization is an important step in quantifying craniomaxillofacial (CMF) deformities and designing treatment plans of reconstructive surgery. However, due to the severity of deformities and defects (partially missing anatomy), it is difficult to automatically and accurately localize a large set of landmarks simultaneously. In this work, we propose two cascaded networks for digitizing 60 anatomical CMF landmarks in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images. The first network is a U-Net that outputs heatmaps for landmark locations and landmark features extracted with a local attention mechanism. The second network is a graph convolution network that takes the features extracted by the first network as input and determines whether each landmark exists via binary classification. We evaluated our approach on 50 sets of CBCT scans of patients with CMF deformities and compared them with state-of-the-art methods. The results indicate that our approach can achieve an average detection error of 1.47mm with a false positive rate of 19%, outperforming related methods.

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Craniomaxillofacial (CMF) surgeryDeep learningGCNLandmark localization

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PMID34927175
PMCPMC8675277

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