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2001 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Sequential 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Medical Applications
Authors : Kálmán Palágyi, Emese Balogh, Attila Kuba, Csongor Halmai, Balázs Erdőhelyi, Erich Sorantin, Klaus Hausegger
Published in: Information Processing in Medical Imaging
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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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.