Patient-Specific Articulated Digital Twins from a Single Full-Body CT Scan

arXiv:2607.02156v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Patient-specific anatomical models provide individualized context for surgical planning, image-guided intervention, and algorithm development. However, most CT-derived models are static: they preserve the body configuration captured at scan time, but cannot represent how the same anatomy would appear after patient repositioning. This limitation is especially important for radiographic imaging, where appearance depends jointly on imaging geometry and patient pose. We present a proof-of-concept for constructing a patient-specific articulated digital twin from a single full-body CT scan. The method fits a parametric human body model (SMPL) to obtain a patient-aligned kinematic scaffold, binds segmented bones and organs to an anatomy-aware rig, and retargets body-pose changes while preserving skeletal geometry. Using full-body CT scans from three subjects, the fitted scaffold achieved 15.8 pm 4.0 mm chamfer distance and 95.9 pm 1.8% skeletal enclosure. Recomposition at the acquisition pose preserved major radiographic structure, with overall SSIM of 0.872 pm 0.016 and PSNR of 18.5 pm 1.4 dB across paired DRRs. Across unseen target poses, the resulting twins enabled articulation while maintaining high skeletal enclosure (94.4 pm 0.4%). As a feasibility demonstration, we render the articulated twin as pose-dependent DRRs. These results suggest the feasibility of extending static, view-controllable CT simulation toward pose-controllable anatomical twins for future synthetic imaging and positioning studies.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-09