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Speculated Thesis Structure

Below lies a narrow thesis 'skeleton', which may or may not form a valid starting point for the composition of the thesis body. Moreover, it aims to proliferate ideas and encourage discussion.

• Introduction
• Models
  • Statistical Models
  • PCA
  • Model Construction
  • Shape Models
  • Intensity Models
  • Combined Models
• Non-rigid Registration
  • Warps
  • Similarity
  • Group-wise versus Pair-wise
• MDL Shape Models
• Model-based Registration
  • MDL objective function
  • Results
• 3-D Registration Framework
• Automatically Building Appearance Models
• Evaluating Models and Non-rigid Registration
  • Specificity and Generalisation
  • Results
  • Perturbation Framework
  • Comparison with Overlap-based Evaluation
• Future Exploration
• Summary, Discussion and Conclusions