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Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Information on NA-MIC can be obtained from the NA-MIC website. Author: Jim Miller, GE Contact: Jim Miller

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Module Description

Extract the skeleton of a binary object. The skeleton can be limited to being a 1D curve or allowed to be a full 2D manifold. The branches of the skeleton can be pruned so that only the maximal center skeleton is returned.

Use Cases

Most frequently used for these scenarios:

• Use Case 1:
• Use Case 2:

Tutorials

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Panels and their use

Parameters:

• IO
  • Input Image: Input image
  • Output Image: Skeleton of the input image
• Skeleton
  • Skeleton type: Type of skeleton to create
  • Do not prune branches: Return the full skeleton, not just the maximal skeleton
  • Number Of Points: Number of points used to represent the skeleton
  • Output points file (.txt): Name of the file to store the coordinates of the central (1D) skeleton points

Similar Modules

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References

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Information for Developers

Section under construction.