A Formal Classification of 3D Medial Axis Points and Their Local Geometry

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 238-251

  Giblin, Peter ^a   Kimia, Benjamin B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D medial axis; Curve skeleton; Generalized axis; Local form; Medial topology; Order of contact; Ridges; Shocks; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

3D MEDIAL AXIS; CURVE SKELETON; GENERALIZED AXIS; MEDIAL TOPOLOGY; ORDER OF CONTACT; RIDGES; SHOCKS; SKELETON;

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION PLANNING; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTICS; VECTORS;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0742303468     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.1262192     Document Type: Article

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