Some applications

• Skull:

  • Crouzon's disease: [Cutting et al., 1995].

  • Mandible hypoplasia: [Subsol, 1998].

  • Paleontology: study of the skull shape [Dean, 1993,Subsol, 1995].

  • Study of the skull growth: [Subsol, 1995,Subsol et al., 1998,Andresen et al., 1998].
  • Study of ethnicity and sex: [Dean et al., 1998].

  • Facial reconstruction: [Quatrehomme et al., 1997].

• Brain:

  • Alzheimer's disease: [Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998,Thompson and Toga, 1997].

  • Schizophrenia: [Dean et al., 1996,Joshi et al., 1997,Joshi, 1998,Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998,Kelemen et al., 1998].

  • Normal-pressure hydrocephalus: [Martin, 1995,Martin et al., 1998].

  • Cerebral atrophy: [Subsol et al., 1996,Subsol et al., 1997].

  • Tumour: [Thompson and Toga, 1997].

• Other applications : shape-based indexing [Zhang et al., 1998].