3D-guided face manipulation of 2D images for the prediction of post-operative outcome after cranio-maxillofacial surgery

Cranio-maxillofacial surgery often alters the aesthetics of the face which can be a heavy burden for patients to decide whether or not to undergo surgery. Today, physicians can predict the post-operative face using surgery planning tools to support the patient's decision-making. While these pla...

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Main Authors: Andlauer, Robin (Author) , Wachter, Andreas (Author) , Schaufelberger, Matthias (Author) , Bouffleur, Frederic (Author) , Kühle, Reinald (Author) , Freudlsperger, Christian (Author) , Nahm, Werner (Author)
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Language:English
Published: July 15, 2021
In: IEEE transactions on image processing
Year: 2021, Volume: 30, Pages: 7349-7363
ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2021.3096081
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Author Notes:Robin Andlauer, Andreas Wachter, Matthias Schaufelberger, Frederic Weichel, Reinald Kühle, Christian Freudlsperger, and Werner Nahm
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Summary:Cranio-maxillofacial surgery often alters the aesthetics of the face which can be a heavy burden for patients to decide whether or not to undergo surgery. Today, physicians can predict the post-operative face using surgery planning tools to support the patient's decision-making. While these planning tools allow a simulation of the post-operative face, the facial texture must usually be captured by another 3D texture scan and subsequently mapped on the simulated face. This approach often results in face predictions that do not appear realistic or lively looking and are therefore ill-suited to guide the patient's decision-making. Instead, we propose a method using a generative adversarial network to modify a facial image according to a 3D soft-tissue estimation of the post-operative face. To circumvent the lack of available data pairs between pre- and post-operative measurements we propose a semi-supervised training strategy using cycle losses that only requires paired open-source data of images and 3D surfaces of the face's shape. After training on "in-the-wild" images we show that our model can realistically manipulate local regions of a face in a 2D image based on a modified 3D shape. We then test our model on four clinical examples where we predict the post-operative face according to a 3D soft-tissue prediction of surgery outcome, which was simulated by a surgery planning tool. As a result, we aim to demonstrate the potential of our approach to predict realistic post-operative images of faces without the need of paired clinical data, physical models, or 3D texture scans.
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ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2021.3096081