Title
Multi-object analysis of volume, pose, and shape using statistical discrimination.
Abstract
One goal of statistical shape analysis is the discrimination between two populations of objects. Whereas traditional shape analysis was mostly concerned with single objects, analysis of multi-object complexes presents new challenges related to alignment and pose. In this paper, we present a methodology for discriminant analysis of multiple objects represented by sampled medial manifolds. Non-euclidean metrics that describe geodesic distances between sets of sampled representations are used for alignment and discrimination. Our choice of discriminant method is the distance-weighted discriminant because of its generalization ability in high-dimensional, low sample size settings. Using an unbiased, soft discrimination score, we associate a statistical hypothesis test with the discrimination results. We explore the effectiveness of different choices of features as input to the discriminant analysis, using measures like volume, pose, shape, and the combination of pose and shape. Our method is applied to a longitudinal pediatric autism study with 10 subcortical brain structures in a population of 70 subjects. It is shown that the choices of type of global alignment and of intrinsic versus extrinsic shape features, the latter being sensitive to relative pose, are crucial factors for group discrimination and also for explaining the nature of shape change in terms of the application domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TPAMI.2009.92
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
discrimination result,statistical shape analysis,discriminant analysis,traditional shape analysis,shape change,group discrimination,soft discrimination score,statistical discrimination,extrinsic shape feature,distance-weighted discriminant,multi-object analysis,discriminant method,autism,statistical analysis,testing,neurophysiology,support vector machines,statistical hypothesis test,pose estimation,object recognition,shape,statistical hypothesis testing,computer science,sample size,neuroimaging,image analysis,shape analysis,geodesic distance,magnetic resonance imaging,hippocampus
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1939-3539
20
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.97
20
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Gorczowski1523.86
Martin Styner21349116.30
Ja-Yeon Jeong3806.46
J. S. Marron413113.09
Piven Joseph577049.65
Heather Cody Hazlett673642.81
Stephen M. Pizer72000262.21
Guido Gerig84795540.21