Skeletonization using SSM of the distance transform

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Latecki, Longin Jan ^a   Li, Quan Nan ^b   Bai, Xiang ^b   Liu, Wen Yu ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Distance transform; Gradient vector field; Isotropic diffusion; Skeleton strength map (SSM); Skeletonization

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; GRADIENT VECTOR FIELD; ISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; SKELETON STRENGTH MAP (SSM); SKELETONIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 48149096733     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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