Stereological estimation of the rose of directions from the rose of intersections

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Authors Viktor Beneš, Ivan Sax

Publication date 29 April 2005

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropyestimationrandom sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Inference from spatial processes (62M30)

Review text

The isotropy of a random set can be defined by means of the invariance of its distribution with respect to any rotation operator. The deviance from this property is called anisotropy. One can imagine anisotropy of spatial distributions of objects which may form chains of preferred orientation violating thus the isotropy assumption. Special models of random sets are fibre and surface processes where besides anisotropy of the spatial distribution a simple type of anisotropy may be described by means of the distribution of tangents, normal orientations of the fibres, and surfaces at each point where it is defined (this probability distribution is called the rose of directions). The paper is a review on the problem concerning anisotropy quantification of fibre and surface processes. In classical stereology, the information on geometrical objects is derived from observations on lower dimensional probes (test systems). The rose of intersections is defined as the mean number of intersections between the process and a unit (oriented) test system. The problem of the estimation of the rose of directions of fibre and surface processes from the rose of intersections has a long history but it is not yet satisfactorily solved. The results presented in this paper are the first systematic trial and there is a still a lot of work to be done in order to understand the properties of estimators properly. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1057.60002].

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