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Three-Dimensional Shape Modeling and Analysis of Brain Structures

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Chunjing Xu1, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang

  • 1Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. cjxu6@ie.cuhk.edu.hk

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|November 26, 2008
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