PURPOSE We evaluated the performance of organ contour propagation from a planning computed tomography to cone-beam computed tomography with deformable image registration by comparing contours to manual contouring. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen patients were retrospectively identified based on showing considerable physical change throughout the course of treatment. Multiple organs in the 3 reg...

Deformable models provide a promising and vigorously researched model-based approach to computer-assisted medical image analysis. The widely recognized potency of deformable models stems from their ability to segment, match, and track images of anatomic structures by exploiting (bottom-up) constraints derived from the image data together with (top-down) a priori knowledge about the location, si...

This paper describes a new approach to the tracking of complex shapes through image sequences, that combines deformable region models and deformable contours. A new deformable region model is presented: its optimisation is based on texture correlation and is constrained by the use of a motion model, such as rigid, aane or homographic. The use of texture information (versus edge information) not...

This thesis presents novel algorithms for deformable dynamics, collision detection and contact resolution between reduced nonlinear 3D deformable objects, for use in interactive computer graphics and haptics. The deformable models investigated are elastic, volumetric, and capable of undergoing large deformations. Each mesh vertex of a general 3D deformable object has three degrees of freedom. N...

Target point manipulation inside a deformable object by a robotic system is necessary in many medical and industrial applications such as breast biopsy, drug injection, suturing, precise machining of deformable objects etc. However, this is a challenging problem because of the difficulty of imposing the motion of the internal target point by a finite number of actuation points located at the bo...

A novel approach is proposed to analyzing and tracking the motion of structured deformable shapes, which consist of multiple correlated deformable subparts. Since this problem is high dimensional in nature, existing methods are plagued either by the inability to capture the detailed local deformation or by the enormous complexity induced by the curse of dimensionality. Taking advantage of the s...

In this paper, a displacement-based, variationally consistent, two variable refined theory for shear deformable beams is presented. The beam is assumed to be of linearly elastic, homogeneous, isotropic material and has a uniform rectangular cross-section. In this theory, the beam axial displacement and beam transverse displacement consist of bending components and shearing components. The assum...