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Newton's method on Riemannian manifolds and a geometric model for the human spine

  • Roy L. Adler
  • , Jean Pierre Dedieu
  • , Joseph Y. Margulies
  • , Marco Martens
  • , Mike Shub
  • IBM
  • Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier
  • Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon

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Abstract

To study a geometric model of the human spine we are led to finding a constrained minimum of a real valued function defined on a product of special orthogonal groups. To take advantge of its Lie group structure we consider Newton's method on this manifold. Comparisons between measured spines and computed spines show the pertinence of this approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)359-390
Number of pages32
JournalIMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Volume22
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2002

Keywords

  • Human spine
  • Newton's method
  • Orthogonal group
  • Riemannian manifold

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