Extracting Curvilinear Structures A Differential Geometric Approach

Inthispaperamethodtoextractcurvilinearstructuresfromdigitalimagesispresented.Theapproachisbasedondifferentialgeometricpropertiesoftheimagefunction.Foreachpixel,thesecondorderTaylorpolynomialiscomputedbyconvolvingtheimagewiththederivativesofaGaussiansmoothingkernel.Linepointsarerequi