Skeletonization and also known as thinning process is an important step in pre-processing
phase. Skeletonization is a crucial process for many applications such as OCR, writer …

Current biomedical imaging tools have limitations in accurate assessment of the severity of
open and deep burn wounds involving excess bleeding and severe tissue damage …

The length of the rice panicle determines the number of grains it can hold, and consequently
rice yield; it is therefore one of the most important traits assessed in yield-related research …

Cost-effective production of lignocellulosic biofuel requires efficient breakdown of cell walls
present in plant biomass to retrieve the wall polysaccharides for fermentation. In-depth …

Contours and skeletons are well-known shape representations that embody visual
information by using a limited set of object points. Both representations have been applied in …

Thinning is a frequently used technique capable of producing all kinds of skeleton-like
shape features in a topology-preserving way. It is an iterative object reduction: some border …

Thinning and shrinking algorithms, respectively, are capable of extracting medial lines and
topological kernels from digital binary objects in a topology preserving way. These …

Skeletonization" also known as thinning" is an important step in the pre-processing phase in
many of pattern recognition techniques. The output of Skeletonization process is the …

Skeletons are widely used shape descriptors which summarize the general form of binary
objects. A technique to obtain skeletons is the thinning, that is an iterative layer-by-layer …

A widely used skeletonization technique is thinning, which is an iterative layer-by-layer
erosion in a topology preserving way. In the conventional implementation of thinning …