We describe a model-based method of generating realistic mass lesions and placing them in appropriate locations on normal mammogram backgrounds. These lesions are highly irregular in shape and have no consistent internal landmarks. Thin plate splines are used both in modelling the background to each lesion, and to warp examples when training an appearance model.

The residual stresses of the thin-walled injection molding are investigated in this study. It was realized that the behavior of residual stresses in injection molding parts was affected by different process conditions such as melt temperature, mold temperature, packing pressure and filling time. The layer removal method was used to measure the residual stresses at a thin-walled test sample by a...

Thin plate structures are more widely used in many engineering applications as one of the structural members. Generally, buckling strength of thin shell structures is the ultimate load carrying capacity of these structures. The presence of cracks in a thin shell structure can considerably affect its load carrying capacity. Hence, in this work, static buckling strength of a thin square plate wit...

This paper presents a new method for image segmentation by deforming the object shape in a template. The deformation process is controlled using a thin-plate spline kernel based regularization method. The proposed method is especially useful for 2D-based segmentation of 3D medical images by treating segmented slices as templates for their neighboring unsegmented slices. We have applied the prop...

The Casimir force is calculated between Au thin films that are described by a Drude model with a frequency dependent damping function. The model parameters are obtained from available experimental data for Au thin films. Two cases are considered; annealed and nonannealed films that have a different damping function. Compared with the calculations using a Drude model with a constant damping para...

Zusammenfassung Die sog elastische Registrierung hat sich zu einem wichtigen Zweig der medizinischen Bildanalyse entwickelt In diesem Bei trag wird ein weit verbreiteter Ansatz der interpolierende Thin Plate Splines verwendet hinsichtlich seiner Bez uge zur linearen Elastizit ats theorie untersucht die kleine Deformationen voraussetzt Es wird ein Kriterium vorgestellt das bei Bilddeformationen ...

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A method that predicts the next notes is described for assisting musical novices to play improvisations. Melody prediction is one of the most difficult problems in musical information retrieval because composers and players may or may not create melodies that conform to our expectation. The development of a melody expectation method is thus important for building a system that supports musical ...

2 The Calculus of Variations 2 2.1 Functionals of f and f ′ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Functionals of f , f ′, and f ′′ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 Cubic Splines and Green’s Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.4 Euler-Lagrange Equations for Multi...

Thin plate splines have been used successfully to model curves and surfaces. A new application is in data mining where they are used to model interaction terms. These interaction splines break the \curse of di-mensionality" by reducing the high-dimensional nonparametric regression problem to the determination of a set of interdependent surfaces. However , the determination of the corresponding ...