Automatic Detection and Uncertainty Quantification of Landmarks on Elastic Curves.
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SUBMITTER: Strait J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6781625 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Automatic Detection and Uncertainty Quantification of Landmarks on Elastic Curves.
Strait Justin J Chkrebtii Oksana O Kurtek Sebastian S
Journal of the American Statistical Association 20190320 527
A population quantity of interest in statistical shape analysis is the location of landmarks, which are points that aid in reconstructing and representing shapes of objects. We provide an automated, model-based approach to inferring landmarks given a sample of shape data. The model is formulated based on a linear reconstruction of the shape, passing through the specified points, and a Bayesian inferential approach is described for estimating unknown landmark locations. The question of how many l ...[more]
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