Increasing evidence has shown a higher sensitivity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression
by local hippocampal atrophy rather than the whole volume. However, existing …

Objects and object complexes in 3D, as well as those in 2D, have many possible
representations. Among them skeletal representations have special advantages and some …

Representing an object by a skeletal structure can be powerful for statistical shape analysis
if there is good correspondence of the representations within a population. Many anatomic …

A particularly challenging context for dimensionality reduction is multivariate circular data,
that is, data supported on a torus. Such kind of data appears, for example, in the analysis of …

Object Oriented Data Analysis is a framework that facilitates inter-disciplinary research
through new terminology for discussing the often many possible approaches to the analysis …

Correlated shape features involving nearby objects often contain important anatomic
information. However, it is difficult to capture shape information within and between objects …

Purpose This study aimed to perform in vivo three-dimensional (3D) quantitative
measurements of morphometric changes in the foramen in patients with lumbar foraminal …

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a congenital heart disease characterized by
incomplete development of the left heart. Children with HLHS undergo a series of operations …

For decades, de Casteljau's algorithm has been used as a fundamental building block in
curve and surface design and has found a wide range of applications in fields such as …

Shape correlation of multi-object complexes in the human body can have significant
implications in understanding the development of disease. While there exist geometric and …