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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Pedro,<BR>
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We’ve found the MedialCurve method to be very sensitive, and difficult to use correctly. In contrast, the BinaryThinningImageFilter3D (also from an Insight Journal article), does a very nice job.<BR>
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-dan<BR>
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On 5/23/11 3:26 PM, "Pedro Névoa" <<a href="pedronevoa@gmail.com">pedronevoa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hello,<BR>
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I'm trying to reduce a femur to a simple line, in order to achieve an image of the femur's medial axis. I tried to use the MedialCurve method to accomplish this but no results were obtained.<BR>
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The pixel type of the input image is signed short. I realize that the input pixel type accepted by Medial Curve is float so I changed the pixel type of my image to float using ImageReadCastWrite but it kept on not giving any results - the algorithm is processed endlessly.<BR>
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Does anyone know what may be the problem?<BR>
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Grateful for your attention,<BR>
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