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Statistical Shape Analyses of Patients with Scaphocephaly After Surgical Remodeling
Gokhan Ocakoglu1, Mevlut Ozgur Taskapilioglu, Seckin Kaya
1Uludag University, School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Bursa, Turkey.
Aim:
To investigate the differences in the head shapes of scaphocephaly patients during the pre- and postoperative phases.
Material And Methods:
Cranium shape data were collected from the two-dimensional digital images. The generalised Procrustes analysis was used to obtain mean shapes in the pre- and postoperative phases. The shape deformation of the cranium from the pre- to postoperative phases was evaluated using the thin plate spline method.
Results:
There was no significant cranial shape difference in the pre and postoperative phases. The high-level deformations from the pre- to postoperative phase were seen in thin plate spline graphs. The highest deformation was observed at the biparietal dimension.
Conclusion:
In this study, we showed that the structural deformation of the cranium was correlated with sagittal craniosynostosis. The present study also shows that pre- and postoperative head shapes of patients with scaphocephaly can be compared using head shape with the landmark-based geometric morphometric method by taking into consideration the topographic distribution.
