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Shapes and Diffeomorphisms

  • Suitable for an advanced undergraduate course in the differential geometry of curves and surfaces, featuring applications that are rarely treated in standard texts
  • Provides a graduate-level theoretical background in shape analysis and connects it with algorithms and statistical methods
  • Offers a unique presentation of diffeomorphic registration methods, which has no equivalent in the current literature

Part of the book series: Applied Mathematical Sciences (AMS, volume 171)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Parametrized Plane Curves

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 1-55
  3. The Medial Axis

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 57-72
  4. Local Properties of Surfaces

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 73-100
  5. Computations on Triangulated Surfaces

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 101-130
  6. Evolving Curves and Surfaces

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 131-167
  7. Deformable Templates

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 169-181
  8. Building Admissible Spaces

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 205-241
  9. Deformable Objects and Matching Functionals

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 243-289
  10. Diffeomorphic Matching

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 291-346
  11. Distances and Group Actions

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 347-372
  12. Metamorphosis

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 373-404
  13. Analyzing Shape Datasets

    • Laurent Younes
    Pages 405-421
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 423-558

About this book


This book covers mathematical foundations and methods for the computerized analysis of shapes, providing the requisite background in geometry and functional analysis and introducing various algorithms and approaches to shape modeling, with a special focus on the interesting connections between shapes and their transformations by diffeomorphisms. A direct application is to computational anatomy, for which techniques such as large‒deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping and metamorphosis, among others, are presented. The appendices detail a series of classical topics (Hilbert spaces, differential equations, Riemannian manifolds, optimal control).

The intended audience is applied mathematicians and mathematically inclined engineers interested in the topic of shape analysis and its possible applications in computer vision or medical imaging. The first part can be used for an advanced undergraduate course on differential geometry with a focus on applications while thelater chapters are suitable for a graduate course on shape analysis through the action of diffeomorphisms.

Several significant additions appear in the 2nd edition, most notably a new chapter on shape datasets, and a discussion of optimal control theory in an infinite-dimensional framework, which is then used to enrich the presentation of diffeomorphic matching.

 


Reviews

“The book is an in-depth, modern, clear exposition of the advanced theory of shapes and diffeomorphisms … . This makes the book accessible to a large audience, including graduate and postgraduate students. Moreover the book is extremely well written and very pleasant to read. … I strongly recommend this excellent book to every researcher or graduate student in the field of shapes and geometric analysis. Naturally, it will also be of interest to many Mathematicians … .” (Diaraf Seck, SIAM Review, Vol. 64 (1), March, 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    Laurent Younes

About the author

A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Laurent Younes received his Ph.D. from the University Paris Sud in 1989. Now a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University (which he joined in 2003), he was a junior, then senior researcher at CNRS in France from 1991 to 2003. His research is in stochastic modeling for imaging and biology, shape analysis and computational anatomy. He is a core faculty member of the Center for Imaging Science and of the Institute for Computational Medicine at JHU.



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eBook USD 39.99 USD 79.99
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