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We describe the Mediatrix filamentation method, an iterative procedure that decomposes image shapes in filaments over their intensity ridgeline along their main direction using perpendicular bisectors. From this decomposition several…

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Accurate segmentation of long and thin tubular structures is required in a wide variety of areas such as biology, medicine, and remote sensing. The complex topology and geometry of such structures often pose significant technical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Jiaxing Huang , Yanfeng Zhou , Yaoru Luo , Guole Liu , Heng Guo , Ge Yang

The characterization of our Galaxy's longest filamentary gas features has been the subject of several studies in recent years, producing not only a sizeable sample of large-scale filaments, but also confusion as to whether all these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Catherine Zucker , Cara Battersby , Alyssa Goodman

There is abundant observational evidence for the hierarchical, interconnected nature of filaments in the interstellar medium (ISM) extending from galactic down to sub-parsec scales. New JWST images of NGC 628 in particular, show clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Tamara Koletic , Rachel Pillsworth , Ralph E. Pudritz

In recent years, there were studies on the omnipresence and structures of filaments in star-forming regions, and the role of their fragmentation in the process of star formation. However, only a few studies analysed the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-07 Roxana-Adela Chira

A numerical evidence for the dependence of the substructure abundance of cluster halos on the orientation coherence of the surrounding tidal fields is presented. Applying the adapted minimal spanning tree (MST) algorithm to the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Junsup Shim , Jounghun Lee

We search for potential ``birthmarks'' left from the formation of filamentary molecular clouds in the Ophiuchus complex. We use high dynamic-range column density and temperature maps derived from \textit{Herschel}, \textit{Planck}, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 João Alves , Marco Lombardi , Charles Lada

We propose a new method to measure the mass of large-scale filaments in galaxy redshift surveys. The method is based on the fact that the mass per unit length of isothermal filaments depends only on their transverse velocity dispersion.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Abraham Loeb , Edwin L. Turner

Machine learning methods are changing the way data is analyzed. One of the most powerful and widespread applications of these techniques is in image segmentation wherein disparate objects of a digital image are partitioned and classified.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Randy M. Sterbentz , Kristine L. Haley , Joshua O. Island

We present synthetic continuum and $^{13}$CO and C$^{18}$O line emission observations of dense and cold filaments. The filaments are dynamically evolved using 3D-MHD simulations that include one of the largest on-the-fly chemical networks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 D. Seifried , Á. Sánchez-Monge , S. Suri , S. Walch

The widespread distribution of microplastics (MPs) in the environment presents significant challenges for their detection and identification. Fluorescence imaging has emerged as a promising technique for enhancing plastic particle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Derek Ho , Haotian Feng

We consider the problem of estimating filamentary structure from planar point process data. We make some connections with computational geometry and we develop nonparametric methods for estimating the filaments. We show that, under weak…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Christopher R. Genovese , Marco Perone-Pacifico , Isabella Verdinelli , Larry Wasserman

This paper examines the evolution of cosmic filaments across redshifts 1, 0.5, and 0 using the IllustrisTNG100-1 magneto-hydrodynamical simulation. To achieve this, we introduce GrAviPaSt, a simple, efficient and parameter-free filament…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Parsa Ghafour , Saeed Tavasoli

We present findings of 3D filamentary structures in the Smith Cloud, a high-velocity cloud (HVC) located at $l=38^{\circ}$, $b=-13^{\circ}$. We use data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array \ion{H}{i} (GALFA-\ion{H}{i}) along with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Colin Holm-Hansen , M. E. Putman , D. A. Kim

We have developed an automatic method for segmenting fluorescence lifetime (FLT) imaging microscopy (FLIM) images of cells inspired by a multi-resolution community detection (MCD) based network segmentation method. The image processing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Dandan Hu , Pinaki Sarder , Peter Ronhovde , Sandra Orthaus , Samuel Achilefu , Zohar Nussinov

A novel approach to identify internal interfacial layers, or IILs, in wall-bounded turbulent flows is proposed. Using a Fuzzy Cluster Method (FCM) on the streamwise velocity component, a unique and unambiguous grouping of the Uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-11 Fan Duosi , Jing-Lei Xu , Matthew X. Yao , Jean-Pierre Hickey

High resolution blue continuum filtergrams from Hinode are employed to study the umbral fine structure of a regular unipolar sunspot. The removal of scattered light from the images increases the rms contrast by a factor of 1.45 on average.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , B. Ravindra , A. Raja Bayanna

This paper introduces an efficient edge detection method based on Gabor filter and rough clustering. The input image is smoothed by Gabor function, and the concept of rough clustering is used to focus on edge detection with soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chandranath Adak

In the cosmic web, filaments play a crucial role in connecting walls to clusters and also act as an important stage for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent observational studies claim that filaments have spin. In this study, we examined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Xiao-Xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Wei Wang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

We have developed a method for detecting clusters in large imaging surveys, based on the detection of structures in galaxy density maps made in slices of photometric redshifts. This method was first applied to the Canada France Hawaii…