• DocumentCode
    1217063
  • Title

    Singularities of principal direction fields from 3-D images

  • Author

    Sander, Peter T. ; Zucker, Steven W.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Nat. de Recherche en Inf. et en Autom., Valbonne, France
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    3/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    309
  • Lastpage
    317
  • Abstract
    Generic singularities can provide position-independent information about the qualitative shape of surfaces. The authors determine the singularities of the principal direction fields of a surface (its umbilic points) from a computation of the index of the fields. The authors present examples both for 3-D synthetic images to which noise has been added and for clinical magnetic resonance images
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; pattern recognition; picture processing; 3D images; clinical magnetic resonance images; generic singularity; pattern recognition; picture processing; principal direction fields; qualitative shape; Algorithm design and analysis; Geometry; Helium; Image analysis; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic noise; Magnetic resonance; Noise shaping; Shape; Yield estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0162-8828
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/34.120326
  • Filename
    120326