Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2019.1909S01T03

Medical Diagnostics and Therapy

CT image segmentation for additive manufactured skull implants using deep learning

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Jordi Minnema (Amsterdam UMC), Maureen van Eijnatten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Science Park 123, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Wolff (Fraunhofer Research Institution for Additive Manufacturing Technologies IAPT), Allard Adriaan Hendriksen (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Science Park 123, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Kees Joost Batenburg (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Science Park 123, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Tymour Forouzanfar (Amsterdam UMC)

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Abstract

A major challenge in attaining customized additive manufactured (AM) skull implants is segmentation of 3D scans. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a deep learning algorithm (MSDnet) to automatically segment skull defects in computed tomography (CT) scans. The MSDnet was trained with CT scans and corresponding virtual 3D models of patients who had undergone cranioplasty using AM skull implants. The trained MSDnet was able to segment unseen CT scans accurately and quickly. Deep learning can thus remove the barriers of time and effort during CT image segmentation, thereby making customized AM skull implants more affordable and more accessible to clinicians.

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Minnema, J., van Eijnatten, M., Wolff, J., Hendriksen, A. A., Batenburg, K. J., & Forouzanfar, T. (2019). CT image segmentation for additive manufactured skull implants using deep learning. Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2019.1909S01T03