A registration method for total hip arthroplasty navigation system based on point cloud alignment
Zhenling Wang, Qiurui He, Xinwei Yue · 2026
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Description
Zhenling Wang, Qiurui He, and Xinwei Yue propose a way to line up body scans with the real body during hip replacement, in a 2026 paper. Surgery needs a precise match between scans taken before the operation and points found during it. Probe points found in surgery are few and spread out. That makes the match hard to get right.
Their method starts with three shared marker points for a rough match. A refined point-matching method then aligns the probe cloud with the scan surface. Tests used printed models of the hip socket and thigh bone. Errors stayed under one millimeter on both models. The method beat the standard matching method on accuracy and held steady across runs. The workflow is short and simple to put in place.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zhenling Wang, Qiurui He, Xinwei Yue |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |