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1 July 1990 Curvature sampling of 3-D objects in medical images
Shang You Wu, Ernest M. Stokely
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Abstract
The measurement of the local curvature of arbitrary discrete 3-D medical images is complicated by the difficulties of defining a local neighborhood and then mapping the surface of the neighborhood onto the unit square as a way to unambiguously define a parameterization. Five practical methods are presented for deriving one or more measures of curvature about a point on an arbitrary discretized surface. The first 3 methods approximate the surface patch using continuous biquadratics while the next 2 methods obtain the curvature directly from the discrete data points on the surface which define the neighborhood. The 5 methods are compared in computational complexity accuracy and robustness in the presence of a noisy surface. 1.
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Shang You Wu and Ernest M. Stokely "Curvature sampling of 3-D objects in medical images", Proc. SPIE 1233, Medical Imaging IV: Image Processing, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18892
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KEYWORDS
3D image processing

Medical imaging

3D metrology

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