An improved rotation-invariant thinning algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1671-1674

  Rockett, Peter I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graph theory; Skeletonization; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

SINGLE PIXEL; SKELETONIZATION; THINNING ALGORITHM;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 27644529980     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.191     Document Type: Article

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