Description of purpose: The NA-MIC SPHARM-PDM Toolbox represents an automated set of tools for the
computation of 3D structural statistical shape analysis. SPHARM-PDM solves the correspondence problem by
defining a first order ellipsoid aligned, uniform spherical parameterization for each object with correspondence established
at equivalently parameterized points. However, SPHARM correspondence has shown to be inadequate
for some biological shapes that are not well described by a uniform spherical parameterization. Entropy-based
particle systems compute correspondence by representing surfaces as discrete point sets that does not rely on any
inherent parameterization. However, they are sensitive to initialization and have little ability to recover from
initial errors. By combining both methodologies we compute reliable correspondences in topologically challenging
biological shapes. Data: Diverse subcortical structures cohorts were used, obtained from MR brain images.
Method(s): The SPHARM-PDM shape analysis toolbox was used to compute point based correspondent models
that were then used as initializing particles for the entropy-based particle systems. The combined framework
was implemented as a stand-alone Slicer3 module, which works as an end-to-end shape analysis module. Results:
The combined SPHARM-PDM-Particle framework has demonstrated to improve correspondence in the example
dataset over the conventional SPHARM-PDM toolbox. Conclusions: The work presented in this paper demonstrates
a two-sided improvement for the scientific community, being able to 1) find good correspondences among
spherically topological shapes, that can be used in many morphometry studies 2) offer an end-to-end solution
that will facilitate the access to shape analysis framework to users without computer expertise.
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