Research Article

3D Winding Number: Theory and Application to Medical Imaging

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Follicle detection. 2D slices of the 3D ultrasound image smoothed data set corresponding to one of the patients. Lighter areas display the ovary; dark circular blobs are the follicles. Red dots indicate retrieved local minima in 3D at scale voxels.
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