Computerized craniofacial reconstruction: Conceptual framework and review

Claes, Peter; Vandermeulen, Dirk; Greef, Sven De; Willems, Guy; Clement, John G.; Suetens, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.03.008

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“…Plasticine modeling and drawing are well evidenced as excellent learning tools in anatomical sciences (Motoike et al, 2009;Oh et al, 2009;Ranaweera andMontplaisir, 2009, Howell andHowell, 2010;Skinder-Meredith, 2010) and also in clinical sciences (Re, 1980;Myers et al, 2001;Claes et al, 2010;Yang et al, 2010). The kinesthetic nature of modeling and drawing provide a suitable vehicle for the phases of metacognitive learning: planning, monitoring understanding, reaction to errors and reflection, and leading ultimately to a deeper awareness of their learning.…”

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Promoting metacognition in first year anatomy laboratories using plasticine modeling and drawing activities: A pilot study of the “Blank Page” technique

Naug

Colson

Donner

2011

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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Many first year students of anatomy and physiology courses demonstrate an inability to self-regulate their learning. To help students increase their awareness of their own learning in a first year undergraduate anatomy course, we piloted an exercise that incorporated the processes of (1) active learning: drawing and plasticine modeling and (2) metacognition: planning, monitoring, reaction, and reflection. The activity was termed "blank page" because all learning cues were removed and students had to create models and diagrams from reflection and recall. Two hundred and eighty-two students responded to a questionnaire reporting qualitative feedback on the exercise. Based on student responses, the "blank page" activity was a positive learning experience and confirmed a need to teach metacognitive skills. From this pilot study, we established that drawing or plasticine modeling is an excellent vehicle for demonstration of the metacognitive processes that enable self-regulation: a known predictor of academic success.

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Promoting metacognition in first year anatomy laboratories using plasticine modeling and drawing activities: A pilot study of the “Blank Page” technique

Naug

Colson

Donner

2011

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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“…It is crucial not only to return the remains to the family for proper mourning and acceptance of death, but also for legal action relating to death [1][2] . Forensic Facial Reconstruction (FFR) refers to any process that aims to recover the morphology of a face at the moment before death, from the observation of a skull [3][4][5] . It allows recognition and assists the process of human identification when it is not possible to obtain optimal conditions, as a comparison of ante-mortem and post-mortem data.…”

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“…However, new computer resources have provided the opportunity to obtain multiple representations of a subject in a quick and easy way 5,16,23 . In order to realize digital facial reconstructions, one study 23 …”

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Forensic Facial Reconstruction: Review and Analysis of Scientific Research in Brazil

Herrera¹,

Tedeschi-Oliveira²,

Melani³

2013

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Abstract. Forensic Facial Reconstruction (FFR) refers to any process that aims to recover the morphology of a face at the moment before death, from the observation of a skull. It's a recognition method that allows direct investigations for primary methods of human identification. The literature on this topic is very extensive, however, there are only few national studies, even in Forensic Dentistry. The present study aimed to review and to analyze the Brazilian research publications about FFR. On April 13, a search for references was carried on Bibliografia Brasileira de Odontologia (BBO) and Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) electronic full-text databases with the terms "forensic facial reconstruction", "forensic facial reconstitution" and "forensic facial approximation". A total of 10 national references was found, between 2000 and 2012: 2 articles, 3 dissertations and 5 theses. Most of the references belong to the field of dentistry and the topic that was most studied is facial soft tissue thickness of Brazilian subjects, totaling 30% of the publications. About 50% of the studies have been made since 2010, which shows that the national studies are recent. We conclude that the Brazilian literature on FFR has been growing, but there is still a lack of research. The preparation of theses and dissertations is valuable for the development of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Dentistry.

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“…To reduce reconstruction time and eliminate subjective biases, different computeraid craniofacial reconstruction methods have been proposed [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. The state-of-the-art of the computer-aid craniofacial reconstruction have comprehensively been reviewed in the surveys [18][19][20][21]. The soft tissue thickness measured on skull is the foundation for craniofacial reconstruction.…”

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Craniofacial reconstruction based on a hierarchical dense deformable model

Duan

Zhou

et al. 2012

EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.

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Craniofacial reconstruction from skull has deeply been investigated by computer scientists in the past two decades because it is important for identification. The dominant methods construct facial surface from the soft tissue thickness measured at a set of skull landmarks. The quantity and position of the landmarks are very vital for craniofacial reconstruction, but there is no standard. In addition, it is difficult to accurately locate the landmarks on dense mesh without manual assistance. In this article, we propose an automatic craniofacial reconstruction method based on a hierarchical dense deformable model. To construct the model, we collect more than 100 head samples by computerized tomography scanner. The samples are represented as dense triangle mesh to model face and skull shape. As the deformable model demands all samples in uniform form, a non-rigid registration algorithm is presented to align the samples in point-to-point correspondence. Based on the aligned samples, a global deformable model is constructed, and three local models are constructed from the segmented patches of the eye, nose, and mouth. For a given skull, the global and local deformable models are matched with it, and the reconstructed facial surface is obtained by fusing the global and local reconstruction results. To validate our method, a face deformable model is constructed and the reconstruction results are evaluated in its coefficient domain. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method has good performance for craniofacial reconstruction.

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Computerized craniofacial reconstruction: Conceptual framework and review

Cited by 123 publications

References 24 publications

Promoting metacognition in first year anatomy laboratories using plasticine modeling and drawing activities: A pilot study of the “Blank Page” technique

Promoting metacognition in first year anatomy laboratories using plasticine modeling and drawing activities: A pilot study of the “Blank Page” technique

Forensic Facial Reconstruction: Review and Analysis of Scientific Research in Brazil

Craniofacial reconstruction based on a hierarchical dense deformable model

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