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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2008 Mar 4;36(6):1060–1071. doi: 10.1007/s10439-008-9471-6

TABLE II. Fitting Results for the VM Mesh.

Summary of the VM fitting results obtained by fitting piece-wise bi- and tri-cubic Hermite surfaces to digitized cyrosection photographs from the VM. The RMS errors (mm) are between the digitized data points and their orthogonal projections onto the fitted surfaces.

Component No.
Data Pts
No.
Nodes
No.
Elem.
RMS
Error (mm)

LA 918 59 20 0.94
PR 640 66 20 0.57
Rectum 696 48 42 0.57
Lumen 565 60 54 0.40
IAS 207 42 18 0.89
EAS 708 54 24 1.02
Pubis 1168 96 84 1.27
Coccyx 219 38 42 0.53
TP 89 18 12 1.01
UPBS 567 42 36 0.72