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<p>Dear ITK users, </p>
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<p>one of my students needs to produce an accurate surface mesh correspondence in conjunction with stats shape aware active surface models, towards a vertebral segmentation application.
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<p>Doing a Google search on this, I found a discussion from 2009 <a href="http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/insight-users/2009-August/031857.html">
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/insight-users/2009-August/031857.html</a>; I was wondering if there has been progress in this area since then. For example, can the image deformation methods such as Demons and the like be applied to a surface to surface
correspondence problem (with further information available such as underlying MRI gradients)? </p>
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<p>Our surface meshes relate to vertebral surfaces, so these are not topologically equivalent to spheres; they are more like doughnuts.
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<p>Thanks for kind support. </p>
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<p>Michel</p>
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Michel Audette, Ph.D. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Assistant Professor,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Old Dominion University,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Norfolk, VA.</font></div>
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