Abstract Summary
The geometry of the talus bone is important to implant design, talar disorders. Our recent work has shown that the talus bone has the same shape among individuals and thus a template with different sizes can be used as a replacement. The current study aims to find the shape of the template based on statistical shape variation methods utilizing a mixture of Gaussians model. The average shape and variations of the talus bone will be investigated based on the CT scans of 91 healthy people.