Properties of a three-dimensional island hierarchy for segmentation of 3d images with the color structure code

Abstract

The CSC a very robust and fast color segmentation method. To do a real 3d segmentation of voxel images with the CSC, we have to replace the hexagonal island hierarchy by a 3d island hierarchy with the same properties. The sphere island hierarchy which is defined on the most dense sphere package can be used for segmentation with the CSC algorithm. Unfortunately, the sphere island hierarchy cannot fulfill all properties of the hexagonal island hierarchy at the same time. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.