Statistical Shape and Deformation Analysis: Met, Zheng, Li, Szekely,#

Statistical Shape and Deformation AnalysisMethods, Implementation and Applications\nAuthor(s): Guoyan Zheng, Shuo Li, Gabor Szekely\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Academic Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128104934, 978-0128104934\nSynopsis\nStatistical Shape and Deformation Analysis: Methods, Implementation and Applications contributes enormously to solving different problems in patient care and physical anthropology, ranging from improved automatic registration and segmentation in medical image computing to the study of genetics, evolution and comparative form in physical anthropology and biology. This book gives a clear description of the concepts, methods, algorithms and techniques developed over the last three decades that is followed by examples of their implementation using open source software. Applications of statistical shape and deformation analysis are given for a wide variety of fields, including biometry, anthropology.