Title :
Regularized marching cubes mesh
Author :
Lee, Seung-Woo ; Senot, Alain ; Jung, Ho-Youl ; Prost, Rémy
Author_Institution :
INSA de Lyon, CREATIS, Villeurbanne, France
Abstract :
In this paper we revisit the triangulated cubes of the marching cubes algorithm in order to regularize the connectivity of the iso-surface mesh i. e. to maximize the valence six vertices. This leads to both an enhancement of the mesh topology and a significant reduction of the connectivity coding cost. We prove the effectiveness of the approach by processing medical examples with various geometry and topology.
Keywords :
computational geometry; data compression; image coding; image enhancement; image resolution; wavelet transforms; connectivity coding cost reduction; connectivity regularization; isosurface mesh; mesh topology enhancement; progressive compression; progressive transmission; regularized marching cubes mesh; triangulated cubes; wavelet based progressive resolution; Anatomy; Biomedical imaging; Data visualization; Geometry; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Topology; Ultrasonic imaging; 3D Mesh; Compression; Iso-surface;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9134-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530510
