Distance-Ordered Homotopic Thinning: A Skeletonization Algorithm for 3D Digital Images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 404-413

  Pudney, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE-ORDERED HOMOTOPIC THINNING (DOHT); EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0032293808     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1998.0680     Document Type: Article

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