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    <pageNumber>15</pageNumber>
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    <title language="eng">Learning the shape of female breasts: an open-access 3D statistical shape model of the female breast built from 110 breast scans</title>
    <abstract language="eng">We present the Regensburg Breast Shape Model (RBSM) – a 3D statistical shape model of the female breast built from 110 breast scans, and the ﬁrst ever publicly available. Together with the model, a fully automated, pairwise surface registration pipeline used to establish correspondence among 3D breast scans is introduced. Our method is computationally eﬃcient and requires only four landmarks to guide the registration process. In order to weaken the strong coupling between breast and thorax, we propose to minimize the variance outside the breast region as much as possible. To achieve this goal, a novel concept called breast probability masks (BPMs) is introduced. A BPM assigns probabilities to each point of a 3D breast scan, telling how likely it is that a particular point belongs to the breast area. During registration, we use BPMs to align the template to the target as accurately as possible inside the breast region and only roughly outside. This simple yet eﬀective strategy signiﬁcantly reduces the unwanted variance outside the breast region, leading to better statistical shape models in which breast shapes are quite well decoupled from the thorax. The RBSM is thus able to produce a variety of diﬀerent breast shapes as independently as possible from the shape of the thorax. Our systematic experimental evaluation reveals a generalization ability of 0.17 mm and a speciﬁcity of 2.8 mm for the RBSM. Ultimately, our model is seen as a ﬁrst step towards combining physically motivated deformable models of the breast and statistical approaches in order to enable more realistic surgical outcome simulation.</abstract>
    <identifier type="arxiv">2107.13463</identifier>
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    <author>Maximilian Weiherer</author>
    <author>Andreas Eigenberger</author>
    <author>Vanessa Brébant</author>
    <author>Lukas Prantl</author>
    <author>Christoph Palm</author>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Statistical shape mode</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Surgical outcome simulation</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>3D breast scan registration</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Non-rigid surface registration</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Breast imaging</value>
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    <collection role="ddc" number="0">Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke</collection>
    <collection role="ddc" number="6">Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften</collection>
    <collection role="institutes" number="FakIM">Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik</collection>
    <collection role="institutes" number="RCBE">Regensburg Center of Biomedical Engineering - RCBE</collection>
    <collection role="persons" number="palmremic">Palm, Christoph (Prof. Dr.) - ReMIC</collection>
    <collection role="othforschungsschwerpunkt" number="16314">Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik</collection>
    <collection role="institutes" number="">Labor Regensburg Medical Image Computing (ReMIC)</collection>
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