LITERATURE

Books on deformable models:

Metaxas : Physics-Based Deformable Models, Applications to Computer Vision, Graphics and Medical Imaging, Kluwer Academic publishers, Boston, 1996.
Singh, Goldgof, Terzopoulos (eds.): Deformable Models in Medical Image Analysis. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos 1998

Survey articles on deformable models

McInerney and Terzopulos: Deformable models in medical image analysis: A survey: Med. Img. Analysis, no. 2 1996. Available through the web.
Montagnat, Delingette, Scapel and Ayache:Representation, shape, topology and evolution of deformable surfaces. Application to 3D medical image segmentation, Technical Report, INRIA, 2000. Available through web.

Articles on ill-posed problems in vision

Terzopoulos: Regularization of inverse visual problems involving discontinuities. IEEE-PAMI, July 1986

Articles on parametric deformable models

Cohen and Cohen: Finite element methods for active contour models and balloons for 2D and 3D images. IEEE-PAMI, Nov. 1993.
Kass, Witkin and Terzopoulos: Snakes: active contour models. Int. J. of Computer Vision, 1:321-331,1988.

Articles on implicit deformable models

Malladi, Sethian and Vemuri: Shape modelling with front propagation: A level set approach. IEEE-PAMI, 1995
Caselles, Kimmel, Sapiro and Sbert: Minimal surfaces: a geometric three-dimesional segmentation approach, Numer. Math.,1997.

Articles on discrete models (only 3-D)

Delingette: General object reconstruction based on simplex meshes. Int. J. of Computer Vision, 1999. Available through web.
Lachaud and Montanvert: Deformable meshes with automated topology changes for coarse-to-fine 3-D surface extraction. Med. Img. Analysis, 1998
McInerney and Terzopoulos: Topology adaptive deformable surfaces for medical image volume segmentation. IEEE-TMI, Oct. 1999