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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010604</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub"></issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2019.13.COIMG-148</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2470-1173(20190113)2019:13L.1481;1-</article-id>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/ei/2019/00002019/00000013/art00014</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Fully-automatic synthesizing method of dental panoramic radiograph by using internal curve of mandible in dental volumetric CT</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Lee</surname>
            <given-names>Sanghun</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Woo</surname>
            <given-names>Seongyoun</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Lee</surname>
            <given-names>Chulhee</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Lee</surname>
            <given-names>Joonwoo</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Seo</surname>
            <given-names>Jaejun</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>13</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2019</volume>
      <issue>13</issue>
      <fpage>148-1</fpage>
      <lpage>148-7</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>
          <bold>Compared to conventional dental panoramic radiograph, synthesizing panoramic radiograph directly computed from dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images provides high-resolution images with reduced geometric distortion. Previous approaches required manual operations or were
 based on CBCT images without metal artifacts or missing teeth. In this paper, we introduced a fullyautomatic method that can be applied to CBCT scans under severe conditions, which consist three main steps: bone and teeth segmentation, mandible curve extraction, and panoramic mapping. An adaptive
 method was first used for bone and teeth segmentation. Then the internal mandible curve, which provides a stable curve regardless of metal artifacts or missing teeth, was extracted and utilized for panoramic mapping. Our synthesizing method showed stable performance on various CBCT data sets.</bold>
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      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>computed tomography</kwd>
        <kwd>radiography</kwd>
        <kwd>biomedical imaging</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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