The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical t-ories that
have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities …

Blum's medial axes have great strengths, in principle, in intuitively describing object shape
in terms of a quasi-hierarchy of figures. But it is well known that, derived from a boundary …

The paper presents a novel processing scheme for the automatic computation of a medial
shape model which is representative for an object population with shape variability. The …

Biomedical imaging of large patient populations, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, is
becoming a standard technique for noninvasive, in-vivo studies of the pathophysiology of …

We have detected the lack of a widely accepted knowledge representation model in the area
of Blood Vessel analysis. We find that such a tool is needed for the future development of the …

Knowledge about the biological variability of anatomical objects is essential for statistical
shape analysis and a discrimination between healthy and pathological structures. This …

The goal of the research presented in this dissertation is to improve the clinical
understanding of processes that affect the shape of anatomical structures. Schizophrenia is …

Vascular-related diseases are among the most important public health problems
indeveloped countries. Recent advances in medical imaging provide high resolution …

During the last half century, medial representations of objects have been involved in many
biological and physical theories, and computer scientists have designed suitable algorithms …

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has become in recent years the preferred surgical
procedure to treat Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, involving the deployment and fixation of a …