3D-3D Registration: Surface Rendering Plus Skull and Soft Tissue Registration

The CT-skull and 3D-soft tissue from digital surface scan has been registered together in order to see the bones inside the facial surface. This can be done using 3 main methods. Firstly, by applying the segmentation to the CT data, which is the DICOM images, for the skull and skin parts. Secondly, by developing the 3D surface rendering based on Marching cube technique to form the 3D objects of skull and skin respectively. Next, by applying the semi-automatic registration technique to register CT-skin with the 3D-soft tissue from digital surface scanner. The last method requires the knowledge on how to let the user interact with the object and get the depth in 3D. Also the knowledge on the 3D rotation is needed in order to match the directions between two objects. Then the result can be shown the bone under the facial soft tissue, which could be applied to other applications of medical treatment simulation. How they might aid in the simulation after the surgical treatment or moving bone