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Pattern Theory
From Representation to Inference

Ulf Grenander and Michael Miller

Price: £115.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-850570-9
Publication date: 14 December 2006
608 pages, 268 b/w & 67 color illus., 246x189 mm

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Description
  • Grenander is the founding father of pattern theory and his work has had major applications in computer science, medical imaging, tomography etc.
  • Additional resources including extended proofs, selected solutions and examples are available on a companion website.
  • Highly illustrated, includes colour plates

Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Bayes paradigm, estimation and information measures
3. Probabilistic directed acyclic graphs and their entropies
4. Markov random fields on undirected graphs
5. Gaussian random fields on undirected graphs
6. The canonical representations of general pattern theory
7. Matrix group actions transforming patterns
8. Manifolds, active modes, and deformable templates
9. Second order and Gaussian fields
10. Metrics spaces for the matrix groups
11. Metrics spaces for the infinite dimensional diffeomorphisms
12. Metrics on photometric and geometric deformable templates
13. Estimation bounds for automated object recognition
14. Estimation on metric spaces with photometric variation
15. Information bounds for automated object recognition
16. Computational anatomy: shape, growth and atrophy comparison via diffeomorphisms
17. Computational anatomy: hypothesis testing on disease
18. Markov processes and random sampling
19. Jump diffusion inference in complex scenes

Authors, editors, and contributors


Ulf Grenander, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor Emeritus, Brown University and
Michael Miller, Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University


Links to web resources and related information
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Mathematics
Probability & statistics
Biomedical engineering
Applied mathematics

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