Existence and approximation of densities of chord length- and cross section area distributions
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Published:2023-10-27
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ISSN:1854-5165
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Container-title:Image Analysis and Stereology
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Short-container-title:Image Anal Stereol
Author:
Van der Jagt ThomasORCID,
Jongbloed GeurtORCID,
Vittorietti MartinaORCID
Abstract
In various stereological problems an $n$-dimensional convex body is intersected with an $(n-1)$-dimensional Isotropic Uniformly Random (IUR) hyperplane. In this paper the cumulative distribution function associated with the $(n-1)$-dimensional volume of such a random section is studied. This distribution is also known as chord length distribution and cross section area distribution in the planar and spatial case respectively. For various classes of convex bodies it is shown that these distribution functions are absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. A Monte Carlo simulation scheme is proposed for approximating the corresponding probability density functions.
Publisher
Slovenian Society for Stereology and Quantitative Image Analysis
Subject
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Instrumentation,Materials Science (miscellaneous),General Mathematics,Signal Processing,Biotechnology