background and aim: horseshoe placenta is a variant of ring-shaped placenta. ring-shaped placenta is a rare anomaly seen in fewer than 1 in 6000 deliveries, which could be seen as horseshoe shape due to atrophy in a portion of the ring. this report refers to a possible relationship between the horseshoe shape placenta and preterm labor; although it has not been yet validated in the literature. ...

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The features of a class of cubic curves with a shape factor are analyzed by means of the theory of envelope and topological mapping. The effects of the shape factor on the cubic curves are made clear. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the curve to have one or two inflection points, a loop or a cusp, or to be locally or globally convex. Those conditions are completely character...

One of the challenging problems for shape editing is to adapt shapes with diversified structures for various editing needs. In this paper we introduce a shape editing approach that automatically adapts the structure of a shape being edited with respect to user inputs. Given a category of shapes, our approach first classifies them into groups based on the constituent parts. The group-sensitive p...

We propose a general method for finding pointwise correspondence between 2-D shapes based on the concept of order structure and using geometric hashing. The problem of finding correspondence and the problem of establishing shape equivalence can be considered as one and the same problem. Given shape equivalence, we can in general find pointwise correspondence and the existence of a unambiguous c...

In deformable model segmentation, the geometric training process plays a crucial role in providing shape statistical priors and appearance statistics that are used as likelihoods. Also, the geometric training process plays a crucial role in providing shape probability distributions in methods finding significant differences between classes. The quality of the training seriously affects the fina...

Shape description is one of the key parts of image content description for image retrieval. Most of existing shape descriptors are usually either application dependent or non-robust, making them undesirable for generic shape description. In this paper, a generic Fourier descriptor (GFD) is proposed to overcome the drawbacks of existing shape representation techniques. The proposed shape descrip...

Mango is a tropical fruit of India which plays a major role in earning foreign currency by export. The export sector of India is paying attention towards it because of its commercial significance. Image has assorted inbuilt features which reflect its content such as color, texture, shape, and spatial relationship features, etc. How to organize and utilize these features effectively in agricultu...