Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2007;10(Pt 1):850-7

Global medical shape analysis using the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum

Niethammer M, Reuter M, Wolter FE, Bouix S, Peinecke N, Koo MS, Shenton ME.

Abstract

This paper proposes to use the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum (LBS) as a global shape descriptor for medical shape analysis, allowing for shape comparisons using minimal shape preprocessing: no registration, mapping, or remeshing is necessary. The discriminatory power of the method is tested on a population of female caudate shapes of normal control subjects and of subjects with schizotypal personality disorder.

PMID: 18051138