Iterative methods for obtaining energy-minimizing parametric snakes with applications to medical imaging (Q764241)

Summary: After a brief survey on parametric deformable models, we develop an iterative method based on finite difference schemes in order to obtain energy-minimizing snakes. We estimate the approximation error, the residue, and the truncation error related to the corresponding algorithm; then we discuss its convergence, consistency, and stability. Some aspects regarding the prosthetic sugical methods that implement the above numerical methods are also pointed out.