[Insight-users] DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter example

[Jothybasu Selvaraj]

Thanks


I am able to get only the secong paper, the first link doesn't work.

BTW, do you have a small example ofDeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter
?


Jothy




On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Leila Baghdadi <baghdadi at phenogenomics.ca>wrote:

> Jothy,
>
> The usual way that these forces are used in a deformable model is that
> each one tries to correct for one unique case, you then have the definition
> of external forces changed so that it accommodates all these unique forces,
> Balloon force is one of these forces, it essentially expands your original
> model until it gets close to the boundaries of the object you are
> segmenting (hence Balloon), you then turn this force off or make it very
> small and use another external force (i.,e gradient) to search for
> boundaries, and that's what Kappa parameter does for you (as Thomas said in
> his brief explanation), controls how big or small your balloon force is
> gonna be,
>
> Having said that I have heard reports from Sebastian that the normals are
> flipped and somethings are wrong with the way these classes function.
> Unfortunately, I have not had a chance to test any of the code but to my
> knowledge not much has changed since these classes were written long ago
> when ITK came to life. last I used these class was with ITK-3.20 when I had
> multi-mouse embryo segmentation in MR images (64 to be exact) and things
> were working perfectly!
>
> I have two papers that you could consider reading, I personally found both
> of them very useful,
>
>  General Object Reconstruction based on Simplex
> Mesheswww-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/Publications/Herve.Delingette/ijcv99.pdf
> General Object Reconstruction based on Simplex Meshes. HERVÉ DELINGETTE.
> Herve.Delingette at inria.fr. INRIA, B.P. 93, 2004 route des Lucioles, ...
> A non-self-intersecting adaptive deformable surface for complex ...
> scs.ryerson.ca/tmcinern/mypapers/cag01b.pdfYou +1'd this publicly. UndoA
> non-self-intersecting adaptive deformable surface for ... This paper
> proposes a non-self-intersecting multiscale deformable surface model with
> an adaptive ...
>
> good luck
>
> Leila
>
> p.s I will report back when I get a chance to run some tests with ITK-4.2
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jothybasu Selvaraj <jothybasu at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thu, 6/7/2012 3:55pm
> To: itk <Insight-users at itk.org>
> Subject: [Insight-users] DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter example
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have example of DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter. The
> documentation is not very clear in the doxygen, I have no clue on how to
> use this filter.
>
>
> Any help or reference is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Jothy
>
>
>
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-- 
Jothy
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