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An appropriate description of the shape of objects is essential for image analysis and understanding. A well known approach to this is the concept of skeleton. This paper considers a parallel thinning algorithm to compute the skeleton in 3D and proposes a new deletability criterion which retains points whose deletion depends on the deletion of their neighbors. The criterion is incorporated by filling components in a 3×3×3 window.
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Watzel, R., Braun, K., Hess, A., Scheich, H., Zuschratter, W. (1995). On the deletability of points in 3D thinning. In: Chin, R.T., Ip, H.H.S., Naiman, A.C., Pong, TC. (eds) Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics. ICSC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60697-1_91
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