In the present work, the numerical solution of two-dimensional variable-order fractional cable (VOFC) equation using meshless collocation methods with thin plate spline radial basis functions is considered. In the proposed methods, we first use two schemes of order O(τ2) for the time derivatives and then meshless approach is applied to the space component. Numerical results obtained ...

We describe a new approach to modelling pearlescent paints based on decomposing paint layers into stacks of imaginary thin sublayers. The sublayers are chosen so thin that multiple scattering can be considered across different sublayers, while it can be neglected within each of the sublayers. Based on this assumption, an efficient recursive procedure of assembling the layers is developed, which...

In surgery one of the major problems is a safe approach of the operation site. For surgeons it is paramount to know the location of surgically relevant nerves and vessels. Especially in surgery of the lateral (outside) foot, the anatomy is not always completely clear since the location of nerves and vessels is highly variable. Therefore CASAM is developed by students in Delft and Rotterdam (Net...

• Deals with problem of corresponding open curves where endpoints are not defined (ie best correspondence would involve missing of end parts of some curves) • Uses thin-plate spline bending energy to measure quality of correspondence • Treats problem in pairwise manner • Initial landmarks can slide along boundary to minimise obj.fn. • Seems to fix one shape as template, clip a proportion off an...

A novel elastic image registration approach is proposed, which can register both 2D medical images and gel electrophoresis automatically and accurately. Firstly, the global affine registration method based on image intensity is used to initialise a starting estimation of the robust registration algorithm. Then, by using iterative landmark based algorithm, the affine registration results are reg...

Previous work on nonrigid registration of medical images based on thin plate splines has concentrated on using interpolation schemes Such schemes force the corresponding land marks to exactly match each other and thus assume that the landmark positions are known exactly However in real applications the localization of landmarks is always prone to error Therefore to cope with these errors we hav...

This paper presents a method based on articulated models for the registration of spine data extracted from multimodal medical images of patients with scoliosis. With the ultimate aim being the development of a complete geometrical model of the torso of a scoliotic patient, this work presents a method for the registration of vertebral column data using 3D magnetic resonance images (MRI) acquired...

In this work, a novel and generic method for example-based color transfer is presented. The color transfer is formulated in two steps: first, an example-based Chromatic Adaptation Transform (CAT) has been designed to obtain an illuminant matching between input and example images. Second, the dominant colors of the input and example images are optimally mapped. The main strength of the method co...

By coupling the flexibility of Thin-Plate Splines interpolation with Green’s integral formula, we obtain a meshless cubature method from scattered samples of small/moderate size, on convex as well as nonconvex and even multiply connected polygonal domains. 2000 AMS subject classification: 65D05, 65D32.

In this paper, we present an automatic face authentication system. Accurate segmentation of prominent facial features is accomplished by means of an extension of the Active Shape Model (ASM) approach, the so-called Active Shape Model with Invariant Optimal Features (IOF-ASM). Once the face has been segmented, a pose correction step is applied, so that frontal face images are synthesized. For th...