[Insight-users] Smoothing an image by a sliding ball or paraboloid.

[Richard Beare]

I've submitted a suite of parabolic morphology tools to the insight journal :

http://hdl.handle.net/1926/1370

be sure to fetch the latest version from the repository referenced in the paper.

On 4/22/10, Roman Grothausmann <roman.grothausmann at helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:
> Dear mailing list members,
>
>
> To prevent a gradient decent filter from stopping at an insignificant
> local minimum I'd like a ball of some radius to roll over the intensity
> profile of an image. The result I'm interested in is the trace of the
> ball (or paraboloid) centre while the ball is rolling.
> I think this is equivalent to smoothing the image with such a rolling
> ball filter as this ImageJ filter:
>
> http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/docs/menus/process.html#background
>
> And then tracing the gradient decent as is done in the Random access
> iteration example in the user guide.
>
> So I wonder now is there a filter in ITK for image smoothing that works
> by simulating a sliding ball or paraboloid like the imageJ filter?
>
> Any help is very much appreciated
> Roman
>
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