Building 3-D Statistical Shape Models by Direct Optimization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 961-981

  Davies, Rhodri H ^a,b   Twining, Carole J ^b   Cootes, Timothy F ^b   Taylor, Chris J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active shape models; Correspondence; Landmarks; Minimum description length; Point distribution models; Statistical shape models

Indexed keywords

3-D SHAPE; ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; DIRECT OPTIMIZATION; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; IN-BETWEEN; LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH PRINCIPLE; MODEL QUALITIES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POINT COORDINATES; POINT DISTRIBUTION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REPARAMETERIZATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL; TRAINING SETS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950429613     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2035048     Document Type: Article

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