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Using High Resolution Computed Tomography to Visualize the Three Dimensional Structure and Function of Plant Vasculature
Published on: April 5, 2013
On the mathematical reconstruction of two dimensional plants
Zbigniew J Grzywna1, Przemysław Borys, Gabriela Dudek
1Section of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Ks. M. Strzody 9, 44-100 , Gliwice, Poland. zbigniew.grzywna@polsl.pl
Abstract:
A set of 10, chosen medicinal plants (some of them with a reputation as remedies for tuberculosis) has been investigated through Partitioned Iterated Function Systems-Semi Fractals with Angle (PIFS-SFA) coding, Lempel, Ziv, Welch with quantization and noise (LZW-QN) compression, and surface density statistics (f(alpha)-SDS) discrimination techniques. The final outcomes of this quantitative analysis were, firstly: the linear ordering of the plants in question accompanied by the hope that it reflects their medical significance, secondly: the mathematical representation of each of the plants, and thirdly: the impressive compression achieved, leading to remarkable computer memory saving, and still permitting successful pattern recognition i.e., proper identification of the plant from the compressed image.
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