Facial Reconstruction using Marching Cubes

This is a Matlab implementation of the Marching Cubes Algorithm for constructing facial and skeletal surfaces from DICOM images.

The Marching Cubes algorithm is a computer graphics algorithm to extract a polygonal mesh (in this implementation, a triangular mesh) of an isosurface from a three-dimensional discrete scalar field.

A three-dimensional scalar field can be specified as a txt file or a DICOM file and the triangular mesh is obtained using MATLAB meshgrid() in this implementation.

Usage

• This project contains only 2 files: main.m and MarchingCubes.m
• For visualisation and image processing, install Image Processing Toolbox from MathWorks.
• Run the main.m in MATLAB.

Published Paper

IJCR - Forensic facial reconstruction using Marching Cubes

Demo

The following images are obtained by running this implementation obtained from the MRI scan of the human brain.

1. Extraction of Tissue Surface at isovalue 255

2. Extraction of Bone Surface at isovalue 1500

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References

[1] Marching Cubes by Peter Hammer: Implementation of Marching Cubes in MATLAB

[2] A COMPUTER APPLICATION FOR 3D CRANIOFACIAL RECONSTRUCTION AND AUTOMATIC SKULL-PHOTO IDENTIFICATION International Journal of Computer Science and Applications Techno mathematics Research Foundation.

[3] MARCHING CUBES: A HIGH RESOLUTION 3D SURFACE CONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM William E. Lorensen Harvey E. Cline, General Electric Company Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, New York 12301 Date: Number 4, July 1987.