Re: skeleton length

Posted by karo03 on Feb 23, 2007; 9:41pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/skeleton-length-tp3700229p3700236.html

... perhaps the perimeter of the skeleton divided by two is not such  
a bad estimate for skeleton or fibre length?
Karsten

Am 23.02.2007 um 20:14 schrieb Martin du Saire:

> Hi,
>
> I am thinking about estimating root length based on a non-
> intersecting skeleton of a root scan.  The idea is to tally the  
> number of 4-connected and 8-connected (diagonals only) pixels, and  
> assign a length of 1 to each pair of 4-connected pixels and 1.414  
> to each pair of 8-connected pixels.  Has someone already done  
> this?  Or is this a bad idea?
>
> Thanks.
>
> M