This paper presents a new and original variational framework for atlas-based segmentation. The proposed framework integrates both the active contour framework, and the dense deformation fields of optical flow framework. This framework is quite general and encompasses many of the state-of-the-art atlas-based segmentation methods. It also allows to perform the registration of atlas and target ima...

A simple mechanical model and dimensional analysis are used to derive a scaling law for the partitioning between slip rate on a strike-slip fault and distributed deformation in the far-field. The depth of the fault, the distributions of stress, strain rate and slip rate are solved for a given far-field force or displacement in a 2-D medium with a linear temperature-dependent viscous rheology. A...

In this paper, we propose a general framework for performance improvement of the current state-of-the-art registration algorithms in terms of both accuracy and computation time. The key concept involves rapid prediction of a deformation field for registration initialization, which is achieved by a statistical correlation model learned between image appearances and deformation fields. This allow...

This study investigates the strain localizations associated with Lüders deformation in mild steel using digital image correlation (DIC), a non contact, nondestructive, full field measurement technique for strain mapping. The focus is on the two substantial areas of interest such as shear deformation accompanying strain localization during Lüders instability and the complex morphology of Lüders ...

in this paper, the effect of different boundary conditions on the free vibration analysis response of a sandwich plates is presented using higher order shear deformation theory. the face sheets are orthotropic laminated composite that follow the first order shear deformation theory (fsdt) based on rissners-mindlin (rm) kinematics field. based on energy method and hamilton's principle, the ...

We show that a suitable deformation of the algebra hk(1) of the creation and annihilation operators for a complex scalar field, initially quantized in Minkowski space–time, induces the canonical quantization of the same field in a generic gravitational background. This discloses the physical meaning of the deformation parameter q which turns out to be related to the gravitational field. The the...

We analyse deformation mechanism in neutron-rich Cr, Fe and Ti isotopes with N=3244 by means of a Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field code employing a twodimensional mesh representation in the cylindrical coordinate system. Evaluating systematically the quadrupole deformation energy, we show that the Skyrme parameter set SkM* gives a quadrupole instability around the neutron number N∼38-4...

In this review we discuss the global geometry of noncommutative field theories from a deformation point of view: The space-times under consideration are deformations of classical space-time manifolds using star products. Then matter fields are encoded in deformation quantizations of vector bundles over the classical space-time. For gauge theories we establish a notion of deformation quantizatio...