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International Journal of Computer Vision 55(2/3), 85–106, 2003 c 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Deformable M-Reps for 3D Medical Image Segmentation STEPHEN M. PIZER, P. THOMAS FLETCHER, SARANG JOSHI, ANDREW THALL, JAMES Z. CHEN, YONATAN FRIDMAN, DANIEL S. FRITSCH, A. GRAHAM GASH, JOHN M. GLOTZER, MICHAEL R. JIROUTEK, CONGLIN LU, KEITH E. MULLER, GREGG TRACTON, PAUL YUSHKEVICH AND EDWARD L. CHANEY Medical Image Display Analysis Group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Received October 26, 2001; Revised September 13, 2002; Accepted June 27, 2003 Abstract. M-reps (formerly called DSLs) are a multiscale medial means for modeling and rendering 3D solid geometry. They are particularly well suited to model anatomic objects and in particular to capture prior geometric information effectively in deformable models segmentation approaches. The representation is based on figural models, which define objects at coarse scale by a hierarchy of figures—each figure generally a slab representing a solid region and its boundary simultaneously. This paper focuses on the use of single figure models to segment objects of relatively simple structure. A single figure is a sheet of medial atoms, which is interpolated from the model formed by a net, i.e., a mesh or chain, of medial atoms (hence the name m-reps), each atom modeling a solid region via not only a position and a width but also a local figural frame giving figural directions and an object angle between opposing, corresponding positions on the boundary implied by the m-rep. The special capability of an m-rep is to provide spatial and orien- tatio