Skeletonization on 3D tree-embedded graphs

Cherng-Min Ma; Shu-Yen Wan; Jiann-Der Lee

doi:10.1117/12.480126

15 May 2003 Skeletonization on 3D tree-embedded graphs

Cherng-Min Ma, Shu-Yen Wan, Jiann-Der Lee

Proceedings Volume 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480126
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Thinning is for extracting unit-width skeletons from original objects. Such unit-width skeletons are useful in analyzing tree-structured objects, such bronchi or blood tubes. A tree-structured object could be segmented as a graph since the tails of different branches of the object may be too close and taken as cycles. One possible approach for extracting a tree structure from an original tree-oriented object is to extract a unit-width skeleton, then extract a tree structure from the unit-width skeleton. One major drawback of this approach is that the information of the thickness of each branch is vanished in the first step where the thickness of a branch is important in deciding which voxel should be reduced and which should not. This paper proposes an approach to obtain unit width tree structures from original tree-embedded objects directly through the thinning process.

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Cherng-Min Ma, Shu-Yen Wan, and Jiann-Der Lee "Skeletonization on 3D tree-embedded graphs", Proc. SPIE 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, (15 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480126

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