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3D Lung Reconstruction from X-Rays: Implicit Single-View Occupancy Vs. Explicit Voxel-Based Biplanar Methods

  • Alice Le Nilias Houmeau
  • , Thierry Cresson
  • , Jacques De Guise
  • , Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre
  • , Carlos Vázquez
  • École de technologie supérieure
  • University of Montreal

Research output: Contribution to Book/Report typesContribution to conference proceedingspeer-review

Abstract

Deep learning has enabled 3D anatomical reconstruction from 2D radiographs through two main paradigms: image-to-segmentation and image-to-mesh methods. Yet, their relative performance remains poorly understood for the same anatomy. This study compares KVNet, a biplanar segmentation-based network, with the occupancybased model X2V, the state-of-the-art single-view implicit image-to-mesh model for lung reconstruction, on the same dataset of 646 cases. KV-Net achieves higher volumetric and surface accuracy, while X2V produces plausible global shapes with lower computational costs. Beyond whole-organ metrics, a regional analysis highlights distinct challenges across lung zones: occupancy-based models struggle to capture thin lower regions, whereas segmentation networks achieve a twofold reduction in average surface error across all regions. These results provide the first region-aware comparison between image-to-segmentation and image-to-mesh approaches for 3D lung reconstruction from X-rays.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISBI 2026 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9798331577636
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2026
Event23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2026 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Apr 202611 Apr 2026

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Volume2026-April
ISSN (Print)1945-7928
ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2026
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period8/04/2611/04/26

!!!Keywords

  • 3D reconstruction
  • explicit segmentation methods
  • neural implicit methods
  • organ meshes
  • voxel
  • X-ray

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