Research Article

A Synthetic Feature Skull Descriptor for 3D Skull Similarity Measurement

Algorithm 1

SWKDD for skull similarity measure algorithm.
Input: ,
Ensure: wave kernel distance in equation (6)
Output: distance
(1) Compute cotan Laplacian (L, B), which defines the Laplacian
(2) Compute ;
(3) Compute the wave kernel distance matrix
(4) Compute wave the kernel distance matrix
(5) //Normalize the wave kernel distance matrix
(6) // Normalize the wave kernel distance matrix
(7)While and do
(8)  Select the largest value , from and
(9)  Select the smallest value , from and
(10)  ;
(11)  Compute the SVD of WKDD and
(12)  Compute the CDF of WKDD and
(13)   // computer the
(14)   // computer the
(15)  Compute the skull similarity distance:
(16)end while