Download or read book A Probabilistic Framework for Point-Based Shape Modeling in Medical Image Analysis written by Heike Hufnagel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heike Hufnagel develops a mathematically sound statistical shape model. Due to the particular attributes of the model, the challenging integration of explicit and implicit representations can be performed in an elegant mathematical formulation, thus combining the advantages of both explicit model and implicit segmentation method.