[Insight-users] Medial curve extraction (itk::MedialCurveImageFilter)

[Daniel Blezek]

Pedro,

  We¹ve 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.

-dan


On 5/23/11 3:26 PM, "Pedro Névoa" <pedronevoa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Does anyone know what may be the problem?
> 
> Grateful for your attention,

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