Topological segmentation of discrete surfaces

Author

Malandain, Grcgoire ; Ayache, Nicholas ; Bertrand, Gilles

Author_Institution

INRIA, Le Chesnay, France

fYear

1991

fDate

3-6 Jun 1991

Firstpage

444

Lastpage

449

Abstract

An approach to the segmentation of a discrete 3-D object into a structure of characteristic topological primitives with attached qualitative features is proposed. This structure can be seen as a qualitative description of the object. The approach concentrates on topological properties of discrete surfaces. These surfaces may correspond to the external surface of the objects, or to the skeleton surface. The labeling algorithm is based on very local computations, allowing massively parallel and real-time computations

Keywords

computerised pattern recognition; computerised picture processing; characteristic topological primitives; discrete 3-D object; discrete surfaces; labeling algorithm; local computations; massively parallel; qualitative features; real-time computations; skeleton surface; topological properties; topological segmentation; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical informatics; Computed tomography; Concurrent computing; Image segmentation; Labeling; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Topology; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1991. Proceedings CVPR '91., IEEE Computer Society Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

ISSN

1063-6919

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2148-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVPR.1991.139731

Filename

139731