High accurite reconstruction of external ear by use low-cost 3D scanner

The 3D visualization recently played a significant role in biomedical application. It depends on computer environments, software and hardware tools that ease human-machine interaction. Biomedical visualization are considerably employed for the observation of the body's structure and in measuring of numerous properties of those structures, imaging strategies that utilized in medicine and biology are dependent on number of sources, including x-ray, magnetic resonance, electrons, laser, light, ,ultrasound. This study has presented a method of reconstruction 3D external ear by utilized low cost 3D sensor such as Microsoft Kinect with proposed reconstruction program to get high accuracy 3D model of external ear. In 3D scanner of external ear, a Microsoft the Kinect version 1 for windows has been used along with a proposed software based on KinectFusion that designed in order to reconstruct external ear in with high accuracy in real-time. The results of external ear reconstruction showed good accuracy of ear details and measurement that related to reconstruction algorithm that yields good 3D meshes of the external ear. This method with some modification can serve for manufacturing the low-cost accurate handled 3D ear scanner.