Automatic Tooth Segmentation of Dental Mesh Based on Harmonic Fields

An important preprocess in computer-aided orthodontics is to segment teeth from the dental models accurately, which should involve manual interactions as few as possible. But fully automatic partition of all teeth is not a trivial task, since teeth occur in different shapes and their arrangements va...

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Main Authors: Sheng-hui Liao, Shi-jian Liu, Bei-ji Zou, Xi Ding, Ye Liang, Jun-hui Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/187173