Implementation of a 3D thinning algorithm

Homann, Hanno

Oxford University

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1926/1292

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Published in The Insight Journal - 2007 July - December.

Submitted by Hanno Homann on 2007-10-12T06:26:27Z.

ITK currently comes with a 2D binary thinning (skeletonisation) method, but does not support 3D or higher. This paper documents a new itkBinaryThinningImageFilter3D and recommends to rename the current filter as itkBinaryThinningImageFilter2D. The 3D method suggested here is a direct implementation of the work of Lee et al. [2] who have demonstrated that their algorithm can find all deletable surface points at every iteration and is thus very fast. The code was tested on six clinical datasets.

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