Technical Physician || PhD Student, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Presentation:
From art to algorithm: advancing nasal prosthesis design with statistical shape modeling.
Traditional nasal prosthesis design strongly depends on the skill and expertise of the anaplastologist. An innovative, digital method for nasal prosthesis design using statistical shape modeling can reduce this dependency by automatically generating the missing nose statistically consistent with the patient’s face. Feasibility studies underlined the potential of this methodology; however, satisfaction regarding the appearance of the resulting nasal shapes was not yet optimal. The morphable face model incorporated in the method plays an important role here. Aiming to achieve more defined and detailed nasal shapes, we developed our NCI Face Model by acquiring high-resolution face scans of a population representing the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) patient population.
CV:
Tjitske Bannink is a technical physician and PhD candidate at the department of Head and Neck Oncology and Surgery of the Netherlands Cancer Institute. She earned a Master of Science degree in Technical Medicine from the University of Twente in September 2020. Her master thesis was titled ‘Implementation of 3D Technologies in the Anaplastology Workflow’. In November 2020, she continued the research project as PhD student in the field of anaplastology. Prof. dr. Michiel van den Brekel is her promotor and dr. Maarten van Alphen and dr. Baris Karakullukçu are the copromotors.
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