Model-based nonrigid motion analysis using natural feature adaptive mesh

The success of nonrigid motion analysis using physical finite element model is dependent on the mesh that characterizes the object's geometric structure. We suggest a deformable mesh adapted to the natural features of images. The adaptive mesh requires much fewer number of nodes than the fixed mesh which was used in the work by Tsap et al. (1998). We demonstrate the higher efficiency of the adaptive mesh in the context of estimating burn scare elasticity relative to normal skin elasticity using the observed 2D image sequence. Our results show that the scar assessment method based on the physical model using natural feature adaptive mesh can be applied to images which do not have artificial markers.