Automatic cross-sectioning based on topological volume skeletonization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3638, Issue , 2005, Pages 175-184

  Mori, Yuki ^a   Takahashi, Shigeo ^a   Igarashi, Takeo ^a   Takeshima, Yuriko ^b   Fujishiro, Issei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); USER INTERFACES;

CROSS-SECTIONS; DATASETS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERSISTICS; VOLUME SKELETON TREE (VST);

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 26944463432     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11536482_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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