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...
This paper presents a new method for constructing compact statistical point-based models of ensembles of similar shapes that does not rely on any specific surface parameterization....
Joshua E. Cates, P. Thomas Fletcher, Martin Andrea...
Abstract. We propose in this work a novel variational method for computing maps between surfaces by combining informative geometric features and regularizing forces including inver...
Arthur W. Toga, Jonathan H. Morra, Paul M. Thompso...
A significant obstacle in the advancement of Ultrasound Computed Tomography has been the lack of efficient and precise methods for the tracing of the bent rays that result from th...
Shengying Li, Klaus Mueller, Marcel Jackowski, Don...
In this paper, we describe the use of three different shape measures -- i.e., shape index, curvedness, and L2 norm of mean curvature -- to quantify cortical gyrification and compl...
Duygu Tosun, Allan L. Reiss, Agatha D. Lee, Rebecc...