Interval volume decomposer: A topological approach to volume traversal

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5669, Issue , 2005, Pages 103-114

  Takahashi, Shigeo ^a   Fujishiro, Issei ^b   Takeshima, Yuriko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interval volumes; Level set graphs; Nested structure; Simplification; Volume peeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECOMPOSITION; FREQUENCIES; GRAPH THEORY; SET THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TOPOLOGY;

INTERVAL VOLUMES; LEVEL-SET GRAPHS; NESTED STRUCTURE; SIMPLIFICATION; VOLUME PEELING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 21944447791     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.584257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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