LmPT: Conditional Point Transformer for Anatomical Landmark Detection on 3D Point Clouds

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Hauptverfasser: Bastico, Matteo, Onghena, Pierre, Ryckelynck, David, Marcotegui, Beatriz, Velasco-Forero, Santiago, Corté, Laurent, Robine--Decourcelle, Caroline, Decencière, Etienne
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author Bastico, Matteo
Onghena, Pierre
Ryckelynck, David
Marcotegui, Beatriz
Velasco-Forero, Santiago
Corté, Laurent
Robine--Decourcelle, Caroline
Decencière, Etienne
author_facet Bastico, Matteo
Onghena, Pierre
Ryckelynck, David
Marcotegui, Beatriz
Velasco-Forero, Santiago
Corté, Laurent
Robine--Decourcelle, Caroline
Decencière, Etienne
contents Accurate identification of anatomical landmarks is crucial for various medical applications. Traditional manual landmarking is time-consuming and prone to inter-observer variability, while rule-based methods are often tailored to specific geometries or limited sets of landmarks. In recent years, anatomical surfaces have been effectively represented as point clouds, which are lightweight structures composed of spatial coordinates. Following this strategy and to overcome the limitations of existing landmarking techniques, we propose Landmark Point Transformer (LmPT), a method for automatic anatomical landmark detection on point clouds that can leverage homologous bones from different species for translational research. The LmPT model incorporates a conditioning mechanism that enables adaptability to different input types to conduct cross-species learning. We focus the evaluation of our approach on femoral landmarking using both human and newly annotated dog femurs, demonstrating its generalization and effectiveness across species. The code and dog femur dataset will be publicly available at: https://github.com/Pierreoo/LandmarkPointTransformer.
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spellingShingle LmPT: Conditional Point Transformer for Anatomical Landmark Detection on 3D Point Clouds
Bastico, Matteo
Onghena, Pierre
Ryckelynck, David
Marcotegui, Beatriz
Velasco-Forero, Santiago
Corté, Laurent
Robine--Decourcelle, Caroline
Decencière, Etienne
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Accurate identification of anatomical landmarks is crucial for various medical applications. Traditional manual landmarking is time-consuming and prone to inter-observer variability, while rule-based methods are often tailored to specific geometries or limited sets of landmarks. In recent years, anatomical surfaces have been effectively represented as point clouds, which are lightweight structures composed of spatial coordinates. Following this strategy and to overcome the limitations of existing landmarking techniques, we propose Landmark Point Transformer (LmPT), a method for automatic anatomical landmark detection on point clouds that can leverage homologous bones from different species for translational research. The LmPT model incorporates a conditioning mechanism that enables adaptability to different input types to conduct cross-species learning. We focus the evaluation of our approach on femoral landmarking using both human and newly annotated dog femurs, demonstrating its generalization and effectiveness across species. The code and dog femur dataset will be publicly available at: https://github.com/Pierreoo/LandmarkPointTransformer.
title LmPT: Conditional Point Transformer for Anatomical Landmark Detection on 3D Point Clouds
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02808