@CONFERENCE\{IMM2010-05893, author = "R. R. Paulsen and R. Larsen", title = "Anatomically Plausible Surface Alignment and Reconstruction", year = "2010", month = "sep", keywords = "surface reconstruction, markov random fields", booktitle = "Proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics - {TPCG} 2010 (Eurographics {UK})", volume = "", series = "", editor = "John Collomosse (University of Surrey) and Ian Grimstead (Cardiff University)", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5893-full.html", abstract = "With the increasing clinical use of {3D} surface scanners there is a need for accurate and reliable algorithms that can produce anatomi- cally plausible surfaces. In this paper, a combined method for surface alignment and reconstruction is proposed. It is based on an implicit surface representation combined with a Markov Random Field regular- isation method. Conceptually, the method maintains an implicit ideal description of the sought surface. This implicit surface is iteratively up- dated by realigning the input point sets and Markov Random Field reg- ularisation. The regularisation is based on a prior energy that has earlier proved to be particularly well suited to human surface scans. The method has been tested on full cranial scans of ten test subjects and on several scans of the outer human ear." }