Lexicon for classifying ear-canal shapes.
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SUBMITTER: Martinez JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363131 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul
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Lexicon for classifying ear-canal shapes.
Martinez J C JC Hwee Goh Zhi GZ Yap Luis L De Chua Kenneth Wei KW Kamath Savitha S Chung Conrad Kang Rui CKR Teo Wendy Yu Bing WYB Tan Charmaine Kai Ling CKL Dritsas Stylianos S Simpson Robert E RE
Scientific reports 20230722 1
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 ...[more]
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