Automatic generation of personalised skeletal models of the lower limb from three-dimensional bone geometries

JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

卷:116

Article

Modenese, Luca¹  Renault, Jean-Baptiste² 

[1] Imperial Coll London, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Skempton Bldg, London, England

[2] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, ISM, UMR 7287, F-13009 Marseille, France

关键词: Anatomical coordinate system;    Lower limb;    Skeletal model;    Musculoskeletal model;    Kinematics;    Three-dimensional bone model;    Surface fitting;    3D imaging;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110186

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The generation of personalised and patient-specific musculoskeletal models is currently a cumbersome and time-consuming task that normally requires several processing hours and trained operators. We believe that this aspect discourages the use of computational models even when appropriate data are available and personalised biomechanical analysis would be beneficial. In this paper we present a computational tool that enables the fully automatic generation of skeletal models of the lower limb from three-dimensional bone geometries, normally obtained by segmentation of medical images. This tool was evaluated against four manually created lower limb models finding remarkable agreement in the computed joint parameters, well within human operator repeatability. The coordinate systems origins were identified with maximum differences between 0.5 mm (hip joint) and 5.9 mm (subtalar joint), while the joint axes presented discrepancies between 1 degrees (knee joint) to 11 degrees (subtalar joint). To prove the robustness of the methodology, the models were built from four datasets including both genders, anatomies ranging from juvenile to elderly and bone geometries reconstructed from high-quality computed tomography as well as lower-quality magnetic resonance imaging scans. The entire workflow, implemented in MATLAB scripting language, executed in seconds and required no operator intervention, creating lower extremity models ready to use for kinematic and kinetic analysis or as baselines for more advanced musculoskeletal modelling approaches, of which we provide some practical examples. We auspicate that this technical advancement, together with upcoming progress in medical image segmentation techniques, will promote the use of personalised models in larger-scale studies than those hitherto undertaken. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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