Transfinite thin plate spline interpolation

Duchon's method of thin plate splines defines a polyharmonic interpolant to scattered data values as the minimizer of a certain integral functional. For transfinite interpolation, i.e. interpolation of continuous data prescribed on curves or hypersurfaces, Kounchev has developed the method of polysplines, which are piecewise polyharmonic functions of fixed smoothness across the given hypersurfaces and satisfy some boundary conditions. Recently, Bejancu has introduced boundary conditions of Beppo Levi type to construct a semi-cardinal model for polyspline interpolation to data on an infinite set of parallel hyperplanes. The present paper proves that, for periodic data on a finite set of parallel hyperplanes, the polyspline interpolant satisfying Beppo Levi boundary conditions is in fact a thin plate spline, i.e. it minimizes a Duchon type functional

Application of PDE methods to visualization of heart data

Abstract. We apply new methods based on Partial Differential Equations techniques (polysplines) to the visualization of the heart surface. A.1 The Medical Perspective There is considerable effort in the area of medical imaging to capture and analyse the motion of the heart, using a variety of imaging techniques, e.g. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Image Resonancing (MRI). Because o