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A MRI-Based Toolbox for Neurosurgical Planning in Nonhuman Primates

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Detecting keypoints with semantic labels on skull point cloud for plastic surgery.

Shenghui Liao¹, Qiuyang Chen¹, Peishan Dai¹

¹School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.

Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

|April 16, 2025

Summary

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This study introduces a deep learning framework for precise keypoint detection and bone block segmentation in 3D skull models, enhancing preoperative planning for plastic surgery with accurate surgical semantic labels.

Keywords:

Plastic surgery preoperative planning medical image process point cloud part segmentation supervised keypoint detection

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Computer Vision
3D Reconstruction

Background:

Deep learning models offer valuable preoperative planning references by automatically generating keypoints and segmenting bone blocks in plastic surgery.
Developing a robust keypoint detection framework for dense 3D skull point clouds is crucial for advancing plastic surgery planning.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a precise keypoint detection framework for dense 3D skull point clouds.
To improve bone block segmentation for preoperative planning in plastic surgery.

Main Methods:

A keypoint descriptor-detector framework utilizing PointRes2Net for keypoint initialization and a self-organized map for optimization was proposed.
A localized small-part segmentation strategy was introduced, using detected keypoints to define regions of interest (ROIs) for bounding box-enclosed segmentation.

Main Results:

The framework achieved a mean squared error (MSE) of 3.35 mm for keypoint detection on skull models, outperforming existing algorithms.
The segmentation strategy showed a 22.69% improvement in average precision and a 34.15% improvement for smaller parts compared to direct segmentation.

Conclusions:

The proposed method accurately detects keypoints with surgical semantic labels on dense medical point clouds.
Keypoint detection and segmentation results closely match ground truth, offering valuable preoperative planning references for plastic surgery.