ABSTRACT

Contents 11.1 Introduction ............................................................................................ 264 11.2 Knee Bone-Cartilage Structure ...............................................................267 11.3 Active Surface Framework ....................................................................... 268

11.3.1 Cubic Spline ................................................................................ 268 11.3.2 Basic Energies in the Snake ...........................................................269

11.4 Smoothing Basis-Spline Active Surface ....................................................270 11.4.1 Cubic Basis Spline ........................................................................270 11.4.2 e Basis Spline Snake ..................................................................272 11.4.3 Smoothing Basis-Spline Active Surface .........................................274

11.5 Deformation Forces Denition and Active Control .................................277 11.6 Results ......................................................................................................278