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Acknowledgments

The software and data sets provided on this web site are Open Source software projects that are principally funded through the SCI Institute's NIH/NCRR CIBC. For us to secure the funding that allows us to continue providing this software, we must have evidence of its utility. Thus we ask users of our software and data to acknowledge us in their publications and inform us of these publications. Please use one of the following acknowledgments and send us references to any publications, presentations, or successful funding applications that make use of the NIH/NCRR CIBC software or data sets we provide:

Please acknowledge the use of CIBC software. "This work was made possible in part by software from the NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing, P41-RR12553-10."
ShapeWorks
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The ShapeWorks software is an open-source distribution of a new method for constructing compact statistical point-based models of ensembles of similar shapes that does not rely on any specific surface parameterization. The method requires very little preprocessing or parameter tuning, and is applicable to a wide range of shape analysis problems, including nonmanifold surfaces and objects of arbitrary topology. The proposed correspondence point optimization uses an entropy-based minimization that balances the simplicity of the model (compactness) with the accuracy of the surface representations. The ShapeWorks software includes tools for preprocessing data, computing point-based shape models, and visualizing the results.