Statistical Shape and Kinematic Modeling: From Novel Advances to Clinical Practice

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of the journal of Applied Sciences entitled “Statistical Shape and Kinematic Modeling: From Novel Advances to Clinical Practice”, which aims to present recent developments in the translational field of computational anatomy (statistical shape and kinematics modeling of human organs and joints), its applications in clinical practice and beyond.

Medicine is evolving rapidly, with emerging applications leveraging the fields of machine learning, statistics, image analysis, and biomechanics. Statistical inferences in terms of statistical shape modeling have allowed a distributed diagnosis of the organs’ anatomical shape (geometry), biological and population variability, and its representation in imaging modalities. Kinematic information in terms of the joint motion or organ’s functional deformations has provided a deeper understanding when it comes to the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal disorders or their treatment. The interface of statistical and kinematic modeling of human organs has recently been recognized within the research community. Emerging modeling frameworks have been applied for studying the effects of organs’ anatomical shape and pose on the etiology of multiple diseases or disorders.

The techniques involved are emerging and have promising applications towards modeling patient-specificity. Contributions to this Special Issue should focus on the innovative methods integrating the statistical approaches in shape and kinematics for solving clinical problems, validations conducted on such methods, or applications of such methods to solve specific clinical problems.

We kindly invite you to submit your research on this topic, in the form of original research papers, reviews, and perspective articles.

Prof. Emmanuel Audenaert
Dr. Tinashe Mutsvangwa
Assoc. Prof. Bhushan S. Borotikar
Guest Editors

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