solute transport in unsaturated porous media can be viewed as a coupled phenomenon with waterand heat transport, together with mechanical behaviour of media. in this paper, solute transport is formulatedmathematically considering heat and water flow in deformable porous media. advection, dispersion anddiffusion of chemical species in the liquid phase are considered. convection and conduction fo...

and key words In this paper, we present a new approach for segmenting regions of bone in MRI volumes using a deformable model . Our method takes into account the partial volume effects that occur with MRI data, thus permitting a precise segmentation of these bone regions . Partial volume is estimated, in a narrow band around the deformable model, at each iteration of the propagation of the mode...

The preoperative planning of primary tumor resections in the larynx region shall be supported by a 3D visualization of the patientspeci c anatomy and pathological situation. This requires a segmentation of the larynx cartilage structures from computed tomography (CT) datasets. In our work, we use 3D Stable Mass-Spring Models (SMSMs) for this segmentation task. Thereto, we create a speci c 3D de...

In this paper we present a newmethod for approximating non-linear dynamics in deformable simulations based on a full cubic polynomial formulation of the inter-particle force. The proposed approach is a non-physical extension of the well known St Venant Kirchhoff force, focusing on practical considerations about the behavior of the deformable model. Therefore it is very useful for simulating and...

In this report we present a deformable shape tracking method based on Kalman filtering. First a deformable shape model is developed and its propagation equation is constructed. Base on these equations a Kalman tracker is designed. This tracker is applied to lip tracking problem and results are presented.

We present a fully automated system for segmenting the Left Ventricle (LV) in cardiac MR images based on statistical and deformable models. A Project-Out Inverse Compositional Active Appearance Model of 3D LV shape produces segmentations that are refined using a unified statistical/deterministic deformable model. A new multi-scale detector, based on the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HoG), pr...

The problem of estimating probabilistic deformable template models in the field of computer vision or of probabilistic atlases in the field of computational anatomy has not yet received a coherent statistical formulation and remains a challenge. In this paper, we provide a careful definition and analysis of a well defined statistical model based on dense deformable templates for gray level imag...

Deformable 2D-3D medical image registration is an essential technique in Computer Integrated Surgery (CIS) to fuse 3D pre-operative data with 2D intra-operative data. Several factors may affect the accuracy of 2D-3D registration, including the number of 2D views, the angle between views, the view angle relative to anatomical objects, the co-registration error between views, the image noise, and...

In this paper, we present a general approach to automatically visual-servo control the position and shape of a deformable object whose deformation parameters are unknown. The servo-control is achieved by online learning a model mapping between the robotic end-effector’s movement and the object’s deformation measurement. The model is learned using the Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) to deal wi...