Question regarding spurious branches in computed centerline about itkthickness3d

[T4mmi]

Hi,

I'm out of the office this week, but I'll take a look at your data when I come back.
By what I read, is there any bumps on the original volume surface that would create such spurious branches ? Theoretically a perfect sphere would be skeletonized as point but any bumps on its surface would create a branch in the medical axis transform..

[jbi35]

Hi,
thanks for the quick reply. I am assuming you are correct. The original volume is not perfectly regular and this is likely the reason for these stub branches. However, I read up on the topic and found out that it is fairly easy to remove these spurious stubs using the thickness information that also can be computed with this ITK package.