[Insight-developers] Active shape models

[Tobias Heimann]

Hi Alex,

I've written filters for automatic correspondence finding in 3D using a 
variant of the MDL method. I'll submit all classes to the Insight 
Journal in the near future, but before doing this I need to clarify if 
and how I might infringe the patents that Luis was talking about. Let's 
hope for the best!

Best regards,
Tobias


Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
>
> Hi Alex,
>
>
> First of all, be aware that some forms of the Active Shape Models are
> patented, so you may be infringing a patent by using those algorithms.
>
> Patenting algorithms, is in practice the most effective way of making
> sure that they are *NOT* useful for research.
>
> Note also, that Universities are not exempt from the obligations
> imposed by a patent:
>
>    http://www.ladas.com/BULLETINS/2003/MadeyDukeUniversity.html
>
>
> ---
>
> That being said,...
>
> You will find a project for automatic identification of Landmarks that
> is under development as part of the efforts of NAMIC. A description of
> the project is available in the NAMIC Wiki
>
> http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Engineering:2005_Programming_Week_Results 
>
>
> more specifically at
> http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/images/6/67/SlideBlloydnew.ppt
>
> The source code is available at the NAMIC repository:
>
>     http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Engineering:SandBox
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>    Luis
>
>
> ----------------
> sanders s wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>  
>>  
>> I'm writing a program based on the active shape model [tim cootes], I 
>> was wondering if anyone had worked on automatic landmark placement 
>> and had any suggestions, the applications this is designed for is MRI 
>> head contour detection. If anyone can led a hand I'd be grateful
>>  
>> thank you all
>>  
>> Alex
>>
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