The euler number of discretised sets-surprising results in three dimensions

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-19

  Ohser, Joachim ^a   Nagel, Werner ^b   Schladitz, Katja ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjacency; Binary image; Boolean model; Discretisation; Euler Poincar characteristic; Neighbourhood; Systematic error

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844386154     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v22.p11-19     Document Type: Article

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