%0 Book Section %B Proceedings of the Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images (CMORI) %D 2010 %T Topology Preserving Parallel Smoothing for 3D Binary Images %A Gábor Németh %A Péter Kardos %A Kálmán Palágyi %E Reneta P Barneva %E Valentin E Brimkov %E Herbert A Hauptman %E Renato M Natal Jorge %E João Manuel R S Tavares %X

This paper presents a new algorithm for smoothing 3D binary images in a topology preserving way. Our algorithm is a reduction operator: some border points that are considered as extremities are removed. The proposed method is composed of two parallel reduction operators. We are to apply our smoothing algorithm as an iteration-by-iteration pruning for reducing the noise sensitivity of 3D parallel surface-thinning algorithms. An efficient implementation of our algorithm is sketched and its topological correctness for (26,6) pictures is proved. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

%B Proceedings of the Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images (CMORI) %I Springer Verlag %C Buffalo, USA %V 6026 %P 287 - 298 %8 May 2010 %G eng %9 Conference paper %R 10.1007/978-3-642-12712-0_26