Research in Shape Modeling Los Angeles, July 2013 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leonard, Kathryn (Editor), Tari, Sibel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Association for Women in Mathematics Series, 1
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Visualization.; Mathematical models.; Biomathematics.; Mathematical Applications in Computer Science.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

Presenting the latest research from the growing field of mathematical shape analysis, this volume is comprised of the collaborations of participants of the Women in Shape Modeling (WiSh) workshop, held at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in July 2013. Topics include: Simultaneo...

Table of Contents:

• Automatic prior shape selection for image segmentation
• A scalable fluctuating distance field: an application to tumor shape analysis
• Part-aware distance fields for easy inbetweening in arbitrary dimensions
• A biomechanical model of cortical folding
• Quantification and visualization of variation in anatomical trees
• Skeleton-based recognition of shapes in images via longest path matching
• Revisiting skeletons from natural images.-Towards automated filtering or the medial axis using the scale axis transform
• Identifying perceptually salient features on 2D shapes.