G-Code Generator from Bone DICOM CT with Cloud

Abstract

Abstract A three dimensional (3D) medical image can provide a sense of reality for a doctor. A 3D printer can transform a 3D image into a 3D object, which provides communication between the doctor and his/her patients. One step to make the 3D object is to generate the g-code using a software. However, the existing software for creating the g-code still uses the user interface (a manual process). This study aims to generate g-code from Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format in Computerized Tomography (CT) through the cloud. The g-code generator is implemented using Phyton version 3 and runs on a computer using Linux (Ubuntu 18.4) as the operating system. The computer specification is intel core i9-9900K with motherboard Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Elite and graphic card Gigabyte GV-N208TGAMING OC11GC (memory 11GB). The medical image object is a bone that comprises craniofacial bone and thoracic vertebra, taken from multi-slice CT in DICOM format. The g-code file is suitable for a specific 3D printer. The performance criteria are the transferred data and visual shape comparison between the output from InVesalius 3.1 software and 3D printer (manually). The justification of the visual shape match from three radiology doctors for craniofacial bone and a thoracic vertebra is approximately 100% matching.