medial_axis_points — 3D medial op

• Data kinds: voxel → points

• Call: import medial; medial.medial_axis_points(vol, min_radius=0.0) (or ops3d.get("medial_axis_points"))

Usage

Turn the medial voxels into a point set with their local radius (= that point's EDT value). Returns (points, radius).

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• medial_topology — py -3.11 examples_3d/medial_topology.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept points as input)

points_to_voxel · gaussians_to_voxel · estimate_point_normals · to_points · match_points_ncc · match_pca · moment_axes · icp_point2point_3d

Same category (medial)

distance_ridge · skeletonize_vol · topology_signature · medial_match · skeleton_junctions3d · skeleton_endpoints3d · skeleton_prune3d · skeleton_branches3d

*Provenance: medial.py — 3D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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