Table 3 Comparison between the proposed method and existing methods.

From: Bone morphological feature extraction for customized bone plate design

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Soni12

Liu13

Chen 14

He15

This method

Bone feature extracted?

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Parameters mapping relation established?

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Parameterization of plate

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Operation

General

Well

Well

Well

Well

Re-design of the features

General

Simple

Simple

Simple

Simpler