This project provides the community with a statistical shape model (SSM) of the knee, code for generating the SSM, and the training data of knee geometries.

Currently, the structures that are represented include the femur, tibia, patella, femoral cartilage, tibial cartilages, and patellar cartilage.

The bones are represented as point distribution models (PDMs) and the cartilage as scalar fields of the cartilage thickness. This allows for more general use as the point clouds can be easily meshed to obtain the desired mesh topology.

The long term goal of this project is to characterise and embed as many of the knee structures as possible to allow for the creation of biomechanics models.