Abstract
The tooth axis is an important as a morphological reference axis; however general definition of the tooth axis has not been established. This study presented a novel method of automatically calculating three-dimensional teeth axes in micro-CT images. In this study, 20 teeth specimens were obtained from five incisors, canines, premolars and molars, respectively. X-ray images were obtained using a micro-CT scanner at a spatial resolution of 33×33×33μm^3. The tooth axis was calculated using a principal component (PC) analysis on the segmented soft pulp and dentin. The teeth axes of PC-A_+ and PC-A__ were defined as the including of the pulp and not, respectively. No significant differences were noted in the experimental results between PC-A_+ and PC-A__. In experimental results using 20 teeth, the average relative angular errors between the teeth axes T-A manually specified by five dentists and automatically calculated PC-A_+ by the proposed method were 1.14±0.11 deg for incisor, 1.74±0.74 deg for canine, 3.51±0.43 deg for premolar and 2.90±0.57 deg for molar, respectively.
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