Building automatically 3D landmark based morphometric atlases

• Brain segmentation: [Ayache et al., 1996,Kapur et al., 1996,Worth et al., 1997].

• General presentation of the problem: [Bookstein, 1991,Bookstein, 1994,Mazziotta et al., 1995,Toga and Thompson, 1998,Mazziotta, 1997].

  
  

   

  Table 1: Some references about morphometric anatomical atlases based on 3D geometric features.

  		Points	Lines	Surface
  			(ordered list of points)	(continuous representation)
  Liver		[Boes et al., 1994]
  Skull			[Cutting et al., 1993]
  			[Subsol, 1995,Subsol et al., 1998]
  Brain	Cortical Surface			[Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998]
  	Sulci		[Subsol, 1995,Subsol et al., 1996]	[Thompson et al., 1996]
  			[Caunce and Taylor, 1998]	[Manceaux-Demiau et al., 1998]
  			[Royackkers et al., 1995]	[Mangin et al., 1995b]
  	Ventricles	[Hill et al., 1993]	[Subsol et al., 1996,Subsol et al., 1997]	[Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998]
  			[Dean et al., 1996]
  	Caudate Nucleus	[Hill et al., 1993]
  	Brain Stem	[Hill et al., 1993]
  	Thalamus			[Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998]
  	Globus Pallidus
  	Hippocampus			[Joshi et al., 1997,Joshi, 1998]
  				[Kelemen et al., 1998]
  	Putamen			[Kelemen et al., 1998]
  				[Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998]