TY  - CHAP
AU  - Sergio Vera
AU  - Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester
AU  - Debora Gil
A2  - STACOM
ED  - Yoshida, Hiroyuki and Hawkes
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Optimal Medial Surface Generation for Anatomical Volume Representations
T2  - LNCS
BT  - Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications
T3  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP  - 265
EP  - 273
VL  - 7601
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Medial surface representation
KW  - volume reconstruction
N2  - Medial representations are a widely used technique in abdominal organ shape representation and parametrization. Those methods require good medial manifolds as a starting point. Any medialsurface used to parametrize a volume should be simple enough to allow an easy manipulation and complete enough to allow an accurate reconstruction of the volume. Obtaining good quality medialsurfaces is still a problem with current iterative thinning methods. This forces the usage of generic, pre-calculated medial templates that are adapted to the final shape at the cost of a drop in volume reconstruction.This paper describes an operator for generation of medial structures that generates clean and complete manifolds well suited for their further use in medial representations of abdominal organ volumes. While being simpler than thinning surfaces, experiments show its high performance in volume reconstruction and preservation of medial surface main branching topology.
SN  - 0302-9743
SN  - 978-3-642-33611-9
UR  - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33612-6_28
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/VGG2012b.pdf
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33612-6_28
N1  - IAM
ID  - Sergio Vera2012
ER  -