POSITIONING OF ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS IN ORTHOPEDICS BY MESH REGISTRATION

We propose a system for automatic positioning of identified landmarks on anatomical structures generated from medical images. We obtain a rigid registration of 3-D shapes using the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm where a curvature constraint is added as a supplementary dimension in order to improve robustness. A dichotomic scale search and a local rigid registration allow fast local adjustment. We show the effectiveness of the proposed approach by comparing the automatic positioning of anatomical landmarks against the manual positioning by a trained operator.