Topological skeleton

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In digital image processing Skeletonizing (or Topological skeletons or Medial Axis Transform) is a method to detect regions and objects in digital images.

It often uses distance transforms to detect the skeletons of images.

External links

• Skeletonization/Medial Axis Transform (http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/hipr/html/skeleton.html)
• Topological Skeletons (http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/tr1690/documentation/fuzzy_clustering_initial_report/node9.html#SECTION00314000000000000000)
• Skeletons of a region (http://www.cs.ru.nl/~ths/rt2/col/h9/9gebiedENG.html#9.2.4)
• Skeletons in Digital image processing (pdf) (http://www.citr.auckland.ac.nz/techreports/2002/CITR-TR-112.pdf)

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Topological_skeleton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_skeleton) version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Topological_skeleton&action=history) GNU Free Documentation Lizenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License) CC-by-sa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)

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