(of the gas envelope of an airship) flexible and held in shape only by the internal gas pressure
nonrigid in American English
(nɑnˈrɪdʒɪd)
adjective
1.
not rigid
2.
designating a type of airship having a flexible gas container without a supporting structure and held in shape only by the pressure of the gaswithin
Word origin
[1905–10; non- + rigid]
Examples of 'nonrigid' in a sentence
nonrigid
Furthermore, dynamically measured plants may exhibit nonuniform movements that require application of nonrigid registration techniques.
Michael Henke, Astrid Junker, Kerstin Neumann, Thomas Altmann, Evgeny Gladilin 2019, 'Comparison and extension of three methods for automated registration of multimodalplant images', Plant Methodshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13007-019-0426-8. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nonrigid multimodal image registration remains a challenging task in medical image processing and analysis.
Xingxing Zhu, Mingyue Ding, Tao Huang, Xiaomeng Jin, Xuming Zhang 2018, 'PCANet-Based Structural Representation for Nonrigid Multimodal Medical Image Registration',Sensorshttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/5/1477. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This paper presents a nonrigid coarse correspondence computation algorithm for volumetric images.
Peizhi Chen, Xin Li 2014, 'Effective Volumetric Feature Modeling and Coarse Correspondence via Improved 3DSIFTand Spectral Matching', Mathematical Problems in Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/378159. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The model presented also extends earlier work by representing the effect of a nonrigid bearing.
Jim Meagher, Xi Wu, Chris Lencioni 2008, 'Response of a Warped Flexible Rotor with a Fluid Bearing', International Journal of Rotating Machineryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/147653. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this paper, we propose a new nonrigid registration algorithm incorporating shape information, to produce comprehensive atlases.
Yunfei Zha, Xuesong Lu, Li Wang, Rongqian Yang, Shanxing Ou, Dong Xing, Defeng Wang 2015, 'Nonrigid Registration Regularized by Shape Information: Application to Atlas Constructionof Cardiac CT Images.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4482436?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We introduce a novel method for nonrigid image registration which combines the total variation filter and a fourth-order filter.
Xiaomei Yang, Chaomin Shen, Fang Li, Chunli Shen 2015, 'A Combination of the Total Variation Filter and a Fourth-Order Filter for Image Registration',Mathematical Problems in Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/235314. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this paper, the state-of-the-art techniques for structure and motion factorization of nonrigid objects are reviewed and discussed.
Guanghui eWang 2015, 'Robust Structure and Motion Factorization of Nonrigid Objects', Frontiers in Robotics and AIhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/frobt.2015.00030/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both the atlas selections and the nonrigid registrations of the multiatlas approach use a binary mask defined by coarse segmentation.
Carlos Platero, M. Carmen Tobar 2014, 'A Multiatlas Segmentation Using Graph Cuts with Applications to Liver Segmentationin CT Scans', Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicinehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/182909. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)