We describe an automatic method for building optimal 3D statistical shape models from sets of training shapes. Although shape models show considerable promise as a basis for segmen...
Rhodri H. Davies, Carole J. Twining, Timothy F. Co...
Abstract. The correspondence problem is of high relevance in the construction and use of statistical models. Statistical models are used for a variety of medical application, e.g. ...
Martin Styner, Kumar T. Rajamani, Lutz-Peter Nolte...
This paper describes the construction of a statistical shape model based on the iterative closest point algorithm. The method does not require manual nor automatic identification ...
Frans Vos, Paul W. de Bruin, J. G. M. Aubel, Geert...
Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has advanced to become a powerful diagnostic tool in clinical practice. Automatic detection of anatomic landmarks from MR images is importan...
Xiaoguang Lu, Bogdan Georgescu, Arne Littmann, Edg...
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...