Research Article

Shells and Spheres: An n-Dimensional Framework for Medial-Based Image Segmentation

Figure 4

(a) Synthetic noiseless image. (b) Corresponding vertical component of the VSS gradient (radius = 3 for all spheres). Note there are no edge effects, such as those seen with conventional gradient calculations.
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