The virtual skeleton database: A web repository for medical images and processed data
Kistler, Michael, Nicolas Biedermann, Mitra, Rajib, Marcel Pfahrer, Philippe Büchler · Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) · 2011
Recently, statistical shape analysis (SSA) has been developed to model shape variability. The method enjoys a remarkable popularity within the medical image analysis community to model the variability of human anatomy in specific populations. Since its invention, many groups worldwide started to investigate the capabilities of these techniques to study human anatomy. Nonetheless, a recurrent problem that is faced when applying statistical shape model (SSM) to a specific clinical indication, is the large amount of data required to build a valid model.