Physics-Based Deformable Models: Applications to Computer Vision, Graphics and Medical Imaging

✍ Scribed by Dimitris N. Metaxas (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 389
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Physics-Based Deformable Models presents a systematic physics-based framework for modeling rigid, articulated, and deformable objects, their interactions with the physical world, and the estimate of their shape and motion from visual data. This book presents a large variety of methods and associated experiments in computer vision, graphics and medical imaging that help the reader better to understand the presented material. In addition, special emphasis has been given to the development of techniques with interactive or close to real-time performance.
Physics-Based Deformable Models is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in Computer Graphics, Computational Physics, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering. In addition, this book is appropriate as a reference for researchers and practitioners in the above-mentioned fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Geometry of Deformable Models....Pages 17-25
Kinematics and Dynamics....Pages 27-37
Finite Element Implementation....Pages 39-52
Applied Forces....Pages 53-63
Model Implementation....Pages 65-76
Constrained Nonrigid Motion....Pages 77-86
Shape and Nonrigid Motion Estimation....Pages 87-93
Multi-Level Shape Representation....Pages 95-109
Topologically Adaptive Models Based on Blending....Pages 111-124
Integration of Qualitative Segmentation and PBM Methods....Pages 125-147
Motion-Based Part Segmentation and Tracking....Pages 149-189
Volumetric Analysis of the Left Ventricular Wall Motion from MRI-SPAMM....Pages 191-217
Visualizing Respiratory Mechanics Based on Anatomical and Physiological Modeling....Pages 219-232
Recursive Dynamics and Adaptive Control for Animating Articulated Figures....Pages 233-252
Animating Liquids....Pages 253-272
Conclusions....Pages 273-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-308

✦ Subjects

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Computer Graphics;Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics;Imaging / Radiology;Biomedical Engineering