Lexicon for classifying ear-canal shapes.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 07 2023
22 07 2023
Historique:
received:
27
01
2023
accepted:
11
07
2023
medline:
26
7
2023
pubmed:
23
7
2023
entrez:
22
7
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The ear canal is usually described as an S-shaped funnel. In attempting to classify ear-canal shapes obtained from point clouds digitized from molds of 300 ears, the problem of designing criteria for distinguishing and organizing the canal shapes arose. In this work, we extracted features inspired by the S-shape characteristic (critical point, maximum, minimum, twist, writhe, translation, rotation) and, through them, introduced 14 types of ear-canal shapes. This classification allowed comparison of ears within a type and of ears between different types. It expanded our range of descriptors of canal shapes and unlocked perspectives for applications.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37481591
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38570-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-023-38570-3
pmc: PMC10363131
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
11866Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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