Abstract
Recently, there are remarkable progress in similarity computing for 3D geometric models. Few focus is put on the research of the similarity between volumetric models. This paper proposes a novel approach for performing similarity computation between two volumetric data sets. For each data set, it is performed by four stages. First, the volume data set is resampled into a unified resolution. Second, the data set is band-pass filtered and quantized to reveal its physical attributes. The resulting voxels are then normalized into a canonical coordinate system concerning the center of mass and scale. Subsequently, a series of uniformly spaced concentric shells around the center of mass are constructed, based on which spherical harmonics analysis (SHA) is applied. The coefficients of SHA constitute a rotation invariant spectrum descriptor which are used to measure the similarity between two data sets. The algorithm has been performed on a set of clinical CT and MRI data sets and the preliminary results are fairly inspiring.
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Zhang, T., Chen, W., Hu, M., Peng, Q. (2005). A Similarity Computing Algorithm for Volumetric Data Sets. In: Wang, L., Jin, Y. (eds) Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. FSKD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11540007_92
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