01334nas a2200217   4500008004100000245006400041210006400105260004400169300001400213490000900227520058400236100002000820700001900840700002300859700002300882700002400905700002500929700002600954700003100980856010501011       2010                        eng d00aTopology Preserving Parallel Smoothing for 3D Binary Images0 aTopology Preserving Parallel Smoothing for 3D Binary Images  aBuffalo, USAbSpringer VerlagcMay 2010  a287 - 2980 v60263 a<p>This paper presents a new algorithm for smoothing 3D binary images in a topology preserving way. Our algorithm is a reduction operator: some border points that are considered as extremities are removed. The proposed method is composed of two parallel reduction operators. We are to apply our smoothing algorithm as an iteration-by-iteration pruning for reducing the noise sensitivity of 3D parallel surface-thinning algorithms. An efficient implementation of our algorithm is sketched and its topological correctness for (26,6) pictures is proved. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.</p>1 aNémeth, Gábor1 aKardos, Péter1 aPalágyi, Kálmán1 aBarneva, Reneta, P1 aBrimkov, Valentin E1 aHauptman, Herbert, A1 aJorge, Renato M Natal1 aTavares, João, Manuel R S  uhttps://home.inf.u-szeged.hu/publication/topology-preserving-parallel-smoothing-for-3d-binary-images