NUEVO MÉTODO PARA LA SOLUCIÓN DE LAS RAMIFICACIONES EN LA SUPERFICIE DE MODELOS TRIDIMENSIONALES RECONSTRUIDOS A PARTIR DE SECCIONES PARALELAS

Abstract

A new method to solve the branching problem in surfaces of three-dimensional (3D) models reconstructed from parallel cross sections is presented in this paper. This is an important problem inmedical imaging and others object-modeling applications, where the reconstruction of the surface of 3Dmodels from images that represent a set of parallel planes is of interest. The proposed method is based on the skeletonization technique to create new contours, corresponding to an artificial intermediate slice that models the level where branching occurs. Some experimental results of the application of the proposed method to solve the branching problem on synthetic complex examples and actual medical imaging data are showed.