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Mandatory TOC's and misc.
7-page Thesis Summary
(prospective, under review)
Roy Schestowitz
1
Research Student
June 14
, 2005
Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering
Mandatory TOC's and misc. pages (~20 pages)
Introduction (totalling 6-7 pages)
Opening Notes...
Purpose of Registration
The Correspondence Problem
Registration and Correspondence
Optimal Shapes and Shapes Assessment
Aims
Extending the Existing Framework (shape)
Assessment of Registration
Build models
Data-driven analysis
Contributions
Report Overview (Thesis Organisation)
Models (totalling 7-10 pages)
Statistical Models
Describe variation in data
Rationale:
Shape
Correspondence
PCA
Model Construction
Shape Models (learning)
Appearance models
Intensity Models
Combined Models
Active Models and fitting (very brief)
MDL Shape Models (totalling 7-12 pages)
Deformable Models
Shapes and Correspondence
Learning Shapes
Objective Function and Optimisation
Non-rigid Registration (totalling 6-9 pages)
Warps
Similarity
Group-wise versus Pair-wise
Model building - introduce and validate before next section (10-20 pages)
3-D Registration Framework (group work)
Automatically Building Appearance Models (group work)
Placeholder for personal extension or contribution to model-building (yet to talk to TFC)
MDL Appearance Models and Registration (large, fragment it?, 40-50 pages) - see subsequent chapters that supersede this one
Model-based Registration
Evaluating Appearance Models
Evaluating Non-rigid Registration
Evaluating Models and Non-Rigid Registration
Results (Generalisability and Specificity)
Entropy-Based Meausres for Assessment
Results (Entropy-based)
Extending the Method to 3-D
Future Exploration (3-4 pages)
Pitfalls
Extending the Scheme
Summary, Discussion and Conclusions (4-6 pages)
Appendices (10-20 pages)
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Roy Schestowitz 2006-04-22