One of the important clinical features that differentiates benign melanocytic nevi from malignant melanomas is the irregularity of the lesion border. There are two types of border irregularities: texture irregularities, the small variations along the border, and structure irregularities, the global indentations and protrusions. Texture irregularities are subject to noise, whereas structure irre...

Face perception depends on two main sources of information--shape and surface cues. Behavioral studies suggest that both of them contribute roughly equally to discrimination of individual faces, with only a small advantage provided by their combination. However, it is difficult to quantify the respective contribution of each source of information to the visual representation of individual faces...

Frame by frame analysis of left ventriculograms has been performed in 10 normal subjects and 40 patients with heart disease. Left ventricular shape index was derived as 4 pi (cavity area)/(perimeter)2, which has a maximum value of 1 when the outline is circular. In normal subjects systole was always associated with progressive reduction in shape index, indicating that the cavity projection had ...

Despite the importance of crystalline lens power in ocular development, schematic refractive index values used to calculate lens power have been validated for children. We measured refractive error and ocular component dimensions in 519 schoolchildren, calculating lens power using phakometrically measured lens radii and three different refractive index profiles: (1) Gullstrand-Emsley schematic ...

The paper reviews various topics in shape analysis. In particular, matching configurations using regression is emphasized. Connections with general shape spaces and shape distances are discussed. Kendall’s shape space and the affine shape space are considered in particular detail. Matching two configurations and the extension to generalized matching are illustrated with applications in electrop...

Differences between image processing and other disciplines in the definition and the role of shape are explored. Diverse approaches to quantifying shape are reviewed. Attention is drawn to the need for close coupling between image acquisition and shape analysis. An example of the effect of the means of observation on dynamic shape extraction is drawn from linguistics. Current instrumentation fo...

Motions of virtual characters in movies or video games are typically generated by recording actors using motion capturing methods. Animations generated this way often need postprocessing, such as improving the periodicity of cyclic animations or generating entirely new motions by interpolation of existing ones. Furthermore, search and classification of recorded motions becomes more and more imp...

Local scale variations within the same species are common in nature. The shape matching puzzle poses fascinating questions, like how should we measure the discrepancy between a small dog with large ears and a large one with small ears? are there similar geometric structures that are common to an elephant and a giraffe? what is the morphometric similarity between a blue whale and a dolphin? Exis...

The pattern of endothelial geometry at various locations along stenosed dog aortas was examined. This was done to test the hypotheses that the shape of an endothelial cell is related to the local wall shear stress associated with the flowing blood and that alterations in hemodynamics, produced by vascular geometrical changes, influence endothelial cell geometry. Aortic stenosis with a reduction...

Although cell shape can reflect the mechanical and biochemical properties of the cell and its environment, quantification of 3D cell shapes within 3D tissues can be difficult, typically requiring digital reconstruction from a stack of 2D images. We investigate a simple alternative technique that can provide information about the 3D shapes of cells in a tissue from non-consecutive 2D slices. Our...