Computational study demonstrates connectivity-preserving parallel thinning algorithms for digital pictures, suggesting improved thickness-invariant measurements in digital image analysis.
If a picture contains elongated objects of different thicknesses, one can make measurements on it which are thickness-invariant by first transforming it so that each object is thinned down to a "medial line" of constant thickness. Several algorithms are described which perform such a thinning transformation when applied to the picture in parallel. It is proved that these algorithms do not change the connectivity properties of the picture.
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