Using grey-level and distance information for medial surface representation of volume images

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 324-327

  Svensson, Stina ^a   Nyström, Ingela ^a   Arcelli, Carlo ^b   Di Baja, Gabriella Sanniti ^b  

^a Centre for Image Analysis   (Sweden)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION; TOPOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

DISTANCE TRANSFORM; GREY LEVEL INFORMATION; GREY LEVEL VOLUME IMAGES; REGULARITY CONDITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DISTANCE INFORMATION; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; GREY LEVELS; MEDIAL SURFACE REPRESENTATIONS; REGULARITY CONDITION; VOLUME IMAGE;

EID: 25144510715     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. K. Abe, F. Mizutani, and C. Wang. Thinning of gray-scale images with combined sequential and parallel conditions for pixel removal. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and. Cybernetics, 24:294-299, 1994.
2. C. Arcelli and G. Ramella. Sketching a grey-tone pattern from its distance transform. Pattern Recognition, 29(12):2033-2045, 1996.
3. C. Arcelli and L. Serino. Regularization of graphlike sets in gray-tone digital images. Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 15(4):643-657, 2001.
4. G. Bertrand and G. Malandain. A new characterization of three-dimensional simple points. Pattern Recognition Letters, 15:169-175, 1994.
5. G. Borgefors. On digital distance transforms in three dimensions. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 64(3):368-376, 1996.
6. P. Dokládal, C. Lohou, L. Perroton, and G. Bertrand. A new thinning algorithm and its application to extraction of blood vessels. In Proc. of Biomedsim'99, pp. 32-37, ESIEE Noisy-le-Grand, France, 1999.
7. S.-W. Lee and Y. J. Kim. Direct extraction of topographic features for gray scale character recognition. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(7):724-729, 1995.
8. J. Piper and E. Granum. Computing distance transformations in convex and non-convex domains. Pattern Recognition, 20(6):599-615, 1987.
9. S. M. Pizer, D. Eberly, D. S. Fritsch, and B. S. Morse. Zoom-invariant vision of figural shape: The mathematics of cores. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 69(1):55-61, 1998.
10. P. K. Saha and B. B. Chaudhuri. Detection of 3-D simple points for topology preserving transformations with application to thinning. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 16(10):1028-1032, 1994.
11. 6 surface skeleton using iterative thinning. In Proc. of Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSAB'00), pp. 37-40, Halmstad, Sweden, 2000.
12. S. Svensson, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja. Curve skeletonization of surface-like objects in 3D images guided by voxel classification. Pattern Recognition Letters, 23(12): 1419-1426, 2002. Scheduled publication.