Euclidean skeletons of digital image and volume data in linear time by the integer medial axis transform

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2204-2217

  Hesselink, Wim H ^a   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Euclidean skeletonization; Feature transform; Integer medial axis; Integer perpendicular bisector

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

2D IMAGES; 3D DATA SETS; COMPUTATION TIMES; DATA SETS; DIGITAL IMAGES; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; EUCLIDEAN SKELETONIZATION; EUCLIDEAN SKELETONS; FEATURE TRANSFORM; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; INTEGER MEDIAL AXIS; INTEGER PERPENDICULAR BISECTOR; LINEAR TIMES; MAXIMAL DISKS; MEDIAL AXIS; MEDIAL AXIS TRANSFORMS; MEMORY USAGES; NEW CONCEPTS; PRUNING METHODS; ROOT PRUNING; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHMS; TIME ALGORITHMS; TIME COMPLEXITIES; VOLUME DATUMS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 56549102821     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.21     Document Type: Article

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