The Gaussian distribution is the basis for many methods used in the statistical analysis of shape. One such method is principal component analysis, which has proven to be a powerfu...
P. Thomas Fletcher, Sarang C. Joshi, Conglin Lu, S...
Traditionally, statistical models for image auto-annotation have been coupled with image segmentation. Considering the performance of the current segmentation algorithms, it can b...
The initialisation of segmentation methods aiming at the localisation of biological structures in medical imagery is frequently regarded as a given precondition. In practice, howev...
The levator ani is vulnerable to injury during childbirth and effective surgical intervention requires full knowledge of the morphology and mechanical properties of the muscle stru...
Su-Lin Lee, Paramate Horkaew, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zho...
Active Shape Models (ASM) have proven to be an effective approach for image segmentation. In some applications, however, the linear model of gray level appearance around a contour ...
Marleen de Bruijne, Bram van Ginneken, Max A. Vier...