Re: [Freesurfer] Curvature estimation from Hessian

2019-10-04 Thread LOSKE, PHILIPP (PGR)
External Email - Use Caution Hi Bruce, thank you for your explanation. I think I might have an idea, why the Hessian matrix works in this case, maybe you can confirm or correct me if I'm wrong. Usually, if you're having a 2d surface in space, the principle curvatures are the ei

Re: [Freesurfer] Curvature estimation from Hessian

2019-10-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Philipp the Hessian is estimated at each vertex by doing a quadratic fit to the local surface as the height function over the tangent plane of all the vertices in a 2-neighborhood of that vertex. I'm not sure what the gradient vanishing is about, but the curvatures are just the eigenvalues

[Freesurfer] Curvature estimation from Hessian

2019-10-03 Thread LOSKE, PHILIPP (PGR)
External Email - Use Caution Hi, I am trying to understand how exactly FreeSurfer estimates the curvature values from the white surface. From the mailing lists I understood that the white surface is modeled by fitting a second-order polynomial function and curvatures are estima