[vtkusers] [Insight-users] creating centerlines of tubes

[Sergio Vera]

Hello All

The article that Xiapeng referenced only work with binary images, not with
polygonal representations of tubes. Also, standard thinning produces way too
spurious branches  to be really useful. If you have tubular data and need
it's centerline I strongly recommend flux based centerline calculation:
http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/165

<http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/165>How ever, if you have
polygonal data as input, AFAIK, VMTK has tools to calculate centerlines
based on this knid of representation, but I'm not 100% sure.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Xiaopeng Yang <yxp233 at postech.ac.kr> wrote:

> Hi Caitlin,
>
> You can try a 3D thinning algorithm published in the Insight Journal:
>
> http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/181
>
> Xiaopeng
>
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org [mailto:vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org] 代表 Caitlin
> Schneider
> 发送时间: 2010년 11월 9일 화요일 오전 8:31
> 收件人: vtkusers at vtk.org
> 主题: [vtkusers] creating centerlines of tubes
>
> Hello,
>
> I currently have a polydata representation of a vascular tree and
> would like to create a centerline skeleton from this data set (that
> can be used in the future for registration purposes).  Is there a
> straightforward way to create these centerlines?
>
> thank you,
> Caitlin
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