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Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Index
• INTRODUCTION
  • Project Background
  • Description of Task
  • Principal Goals
  
  
• MODELS
  • Introduction
  • The Approach
  • Statistical Models
  • Model Construction
    • Shape Model
    • Intensity Model
    • Principal Component Analysis
    • Combined Model
  • Model Training
  • Model Fitting
    • Learning the Correlations
    • Target Matching
  • Existing Extensions
  • Open Questions
  
  
• NON-RIGID REGISTRATION
  • Introduction
  • Registration
    • Transformations
    • Measuring Similarity
  • Summary
  
  
• INFORMATION THEORY
  • Importance
  • Entropy
  • MDL
  
  
• MDL MODELS
  • Background
  • Landmark Selection
  • MDL in Modelling
  • Objective Function
    • Principles
    • The MDL-based Objective Function
  • Optimisation
    • Background
    • Problems
  • Summary
  
  
• PROJECT PLAN
  • Starting Point
    • Returning to Shape Models
    • Registration Based on Models
  • On-going Work
    • A Critique
    • Parallel and Related Work
  • Goals
  
  
• EXPERIMENTATION
  • Overview
  • Milestones
  • Environment
  • Registration
    • Initial Exploration
    • Different Registration Approaches
    • Comparisons and Benchmarks
    • Problems Investigated
    • Attempted Solutions
  • Shapes Revisited
    • The Successful Use
    • Subsets Selection
    • Adaptive Precision
  • Present Work
    • Model Residuals
    • Adaptive Precision for Images
    • Varying Set Sizes
  • Conclusions
  
  
• ALGORITHMS
  • Registration Algorithm
    • Initialisation
    • Investigation and Preparation
    • Main Loop
  • Algorithm Visualised
  • New Algorithms
  • Extensions
  • Summary
  
  
• PROGRESS
  • General Progress
  • Publicity
  • Other Activities
    • Assorted Activities and Contributions
    • Miscellaneous Meetings and Collaborations
  
  
• FUTURE WORK
  • Overview
  • Aims
  • Impending Work
    • Further Registration Speed-up
    • MDL and Models
    • Automatic Landmark Selection
    • Extension to 2-D
    • Benchmarks using Flexible Platforms
    • Application to 3-D Data
    • Creating Atlases of Deformation for Different Groups
    • Refining Appearance Models Construction
  • Future Milestones
  
  
• SUMMARY
  • Brief Overview
  • Conclusions
  • Contributions
  • Final Discussion
  • Vision
  
  
• ELABORATION ON APPEARANCE MODELS
• PROJECT IN DETAIL
  • Overview
    • The Data
    • Description of the Approach
    • Synopsis
    • Concurrent Advancements
    • Drawbacks
  • Alternatives
  • Relevance
  • Significance
  • Developments
  • Challenging Issues
  
  
• YEAR ONE PROGRESS
• AART APPLICATION DOCUMENTATION
• PROGRESS RECORDS
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• PRIMARY ON-LINE RESOURCES
• Bibliography