TY - CHAP A1 - Lamecker, Hans A1 - Zachow, Stefan T1 - Statistical Shape Modeling of Musculoskeletal Structures and Its Applications T2 - Computational Radiology for Orthopaedic Interventions N2 - Statistical shape models (SSM) describe the shape variability contained in a given population. They are able to describe large populations of complex shapes with few degrees of freedom. This makes them a useful tool for a variety of tasks that arise in computer-aided madicine. In this chapter we are going to explain the basic methodology of SSMs and present a variety of examples, where SSMs have been successfully applied. Y1 - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5693 SN - 978-3-319-23481-6 VL - 23 SP - 1 EP - 23 PB - Springer ER -