A Sequential 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Medical Applications

  • Authors:
  • Kálmán Palágyi;Erich Sorantin;Emese Balogh;Attila Kuba;Csongor Halmai;Balázs Erdohelyi;Klaus Hausegger

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPMI '01 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Skeleton is a frequently applied shape feature to represent the general form of an object. Thinning is an iterative object reduction technique for producing a reasonable approximation to the skeleton in a topology preserving way. This paper describes a sequential 3D thinning algorithm for extracting medial lines of objects in (26, 6) pictures. Our algorithm has been successfully applied in medical image analysis. Three of the emerged applications (analysing airways, blood vessels, and colons) are also presented.