3D base: a geometrical data base system for the analysis and visualisation of 3D-shapes obtained from parallel serial sections including three different geometrical representations

F J Verbeek; M M de Groot; D P Huijsmans; W H Lamers; I T Young

doi:10.1016/0895-6111(93)90039-p

3D base: a geometrical data base system for the analysis and visualisation of 3D-shapes obtained from parallel serial sections including three different geometrical representations

Comput Med Imaging Graph. 1993 May-Jun;17(3):151-63. doi: 10.1016/0895-6111(93)90039-p.

Authors

F J Verbeek¹, M M de Groot, D P Huijsmans, W H Lamers, I T Young

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 8402522
DOI: 10.1016/0895-6111(93)90039-p

Abstract

In this paper we discuss a geometrical data base that includes three different geometrical representations of one and the same reconstructed 3D shape: the contour-pile, the voxel enumeration, and the triangulation of a surface. The data base is tailored for 3D shapes obtained from plan-parallel serial sections. It is explained how this geometrical data base is useful with the different processing approaches of a 3D shape, such as analysis and visualisation. Methods of conversion between the geometrical representations are discussed. Examples of the operation of the data base as it is embedded in a data base management system are given by illustrations of retrieval of geometrical information.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Animals
Data Display
Database Management Systems*
Databases, Factual*
Embryonic and Fetal Development / genetics
Gene Expression
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Microtomy*
Rats
Software Design
Software Validation