Riemannian Geometric Statistics in Medical Image Analysis

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Object shape representation via skeletal models (s-reps) and statistical analysis

Stephen M. Pizer^a,d; Junpyo Hong^a,d; Jared Vicory^a,d; Zhiyuan Liu^a,d; J.S. Marron^a,d; Hyo-young Choi^a,e; James Damon^a,e; Sungkyu Jung^c,e; Beatriz Paniagua^a,e; Jörn Schulz^b,e; Ankur Sharma^a,e; Liyun Tu^a,e; Jiyao Wang^a,e    aUNC, Chapel Hill, NC, United States^bArctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway^cSeoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea^dPrincipal coauthors of this chapter.^eContributors of important material to this chapter.

Abstract

Skeletal models that are structurally medial provide effective object representations. This is because they include not only locations but also boundary directions and object widths. We present a skeletal object representation ...