Leymarie Frederic Fol author Imielinska Celina Z. author Columbia University. Radiation Oncology Chang Ming-Ching author Kimia Benjamin B. author Columbia University. Radiation Oncology originator text Articles 2010 English We present the latest developments in modeling 3D biomedical data via the Medial Scaffold (MS), a 3D acyclic oriented graph representation of the Medial Axis (MA) [LK07, SP08]. The MS (and associated 3DMA) can be computed as the result of the singularities of a geometric wave propagation simulation. We consider here some of the potential applications of this shape model in the realm of biomedical imaging. We can reconstruct complex object surfaces and make explicit the coarse-scale structures, which are ready-to-use in a number of practical applications, including: morphological measurement for cortex or bone thickness, centerline extraction (curve skeleton) for tracheotomy or colonoscopy, surface partitioning for cortical or anatomical surface classification, as well as registration and matching of shapes of tumors or carpal bones. The MS permits to automatically and efficiently map an unorganised point cloud, i.e., simple 3D coordinates of point samples, to a coherent surface set and associated approximate MA. The derived MS is used to further recover significant medium and large scale features, such as surface ridges and main axial symmetries. The radius field of the MS provides an intuitive definition for morphological measurements, while the graph structure made explicit by the MS is useful for shape registration and matching applications. Medical imaging and radiology Computer science Goslar, Germany Eurographics Association 2010 65 74 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14356 NNC NNC 2012-08-13 13:56:15 -0400 2012-08-13 14:04:37 -0400 8376 eng