A FAST METHOD FOR SHAPE TEMPLATE GENERATION

Disease diagnosis often requires segmentation of structures from a given image followed by shape analysis. Shape analysis entails quantifying the variability in a shape by constructing a template for a given population. We propose an orientation-invariant representation using varifolds for the shape elements in a given shape population and present a novel diffeomorphic Log-demons based template creation pipeline. The proposed method generates a good quality template at a significantly less computation time compared to state of the art method.