Introduces the concept of a structured deformable model and presents its application to 3D medical image segmentation. A structured deformable model is composed of a group of basic shape elements. The model can fit a biological shape by changing the characteristics of its elements. An application to bone joint modeling is presented and discussed
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Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
(Volume:4
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Date of Conference: 2000