Journal article
A Fully Parallel 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Applications
Computer vision and image understanding, Vol.64(3), pp.420-433
11/1996
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0069
Abstract
A thinning algorithm is a connectivity preserving process which is applied to erode an object layer by layer until only a “skeleton” is left. Generally, it is difficult to prove that a 3D parallel thinning algorithm preserves connectivity. Sufficient conditions which can simplify such proofs were proposed recently inCVGIP: Image Understanding(59, No. 3 (1994), 328–339). One of the purposes of this paper is to propose a connectivity preserving fully parallel 3D thinning algorithm. The other purpose is to show how to use the sufficient conditions to prove a 3D parallel thinning algorithm to be connectivity preserving. By this demonstration, a new generation of 3D parallel thinning algorithms can be designed and proved to preserve connectivity relatively easily.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Fully Parallel 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Applications
- Creators
- C.Min Ma - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, MingChi Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 243Milan Sonka - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Computer vision and image understanding, Vol.64(3), pp.420-433
- DOI
- 10.1006/cviu.1996.0069
- ISSN
- 1077-3142
- eISSN
- 1090-235X
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1996
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Radiation Oncology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984047720002771
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