Algorithms For Skeletonizing Three-Dimensional Digitized Binary Pictures

Abstract

In this paper several algorithms for skeletonizing a three-dimensional (3-D) pictorial data are proposed with experimental results to provide ideas on what kinds of operations are required and what the computation time amounts to for processing 3-D images. Algorithms discussed here include shrinking, thinning, distance transformation and border following.© (1984) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.