<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gábor Németh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Péter Kardos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kálmán Palágyi</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aurélio Campilho</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mohamed Kamel</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Topology Preserving 3D Thinning Algorithms using Four and Eight Subfields</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR)</style></secondary-title><tertiary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lecture Notes in Computer Science</style></tertiary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LNCS</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">June 2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer Verlag</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6111</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">316 - 325</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conference paper</style></work-type><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ScopusID: 77955432947doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_32</style></notes></record></records></xml>