@inbook {865,
	title = {Topology Preserving 3D Thinning Algorithms using Four and Eight Subfields},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR)},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {6111},
	year = {2010},
	note = {ScopusID: 77955432947doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_32},
	month = {June 2010},
	pages = {316 - 325},
	publisher = {Springer Verlag},
	organization = {Springer Verlag},
	type = {Conference paper},
	address = {P{\'o}voa de Varzim, Portugal},
	abstract = {<p>Thinning is a frequently applied technique for extracting skeleton-like shape features (i.e., centerline, medial surface, and topological kernel) from volumetric binary images. Subfield-based thinning algorithms partition the image into some subsets which are alternatively activated, and some points in the active subfield are deleted. This paper presents a set of new 3D parallel subfield-based thinning algorithms that use four and eight subfields. The three major contributions of this paper are: 1) The deletion rules of the presented algorithms are derived from some sufficient conditions for topology preservation. 2) A novel thinning scheme is proposed that uses iteration-level endpoint checking. 3) Various characterizations of endpoints yield different algorithms. {\textcopyright} 2010 Springer-Verlag.</p>},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_32},
	author = {G{\'a}bor N{\'e}meth and P{\'e}ter Kardos and K{\'a}lm{\'a}n Pal{\'a}gyi},
	editor = {Aur{\'e}lio Campilho and Mohamed Kamel}
}
