Volumetric Image Analysis

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

1 Introduction 1

Part I: 3D Binary Images 7

2 Basics 9

3 Features of 3D Components 43

4 Operations on 3D Binary Images  61

Part II: 3D Grey Level Images 103

5 Image Enhancement 105

6 Geometric Transformations of Voxel Images 117

7 Surface Segmentation 129

8 Region Segmentation 169

Part III: Modelling and Registration of Objects 177

9 Surface Tiling 181

10 Surface Reconstruction 193

11 Registration 203

Appendix 215

A Displaying Volumetric Images 215

References 225

Index 241