Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing

Theory.- Metric Convexity in the Context of Mathematical Morphology.- Support Function and Minkowski Addition of Non-Convex Sets.- Lattice Operators Underlying Dynamic Systems.- Comparison of Multiscale Morphology Approaches: PDE Implemented via Curve Evolution versus Chamfer Distance Transforms.- An Attribute-Based Approach to Mathematical Morphology.- Spatially-Variant Mathematical Morphology: Minimal Basis Representation.- The Generalized Tailor Problem.- Discrete Random Functions: Modeling and Analysis Using Mathematical Morphology.- Morphological Sampling of Random Closed Sets.- Connectivity.- Connectivity on complete lattices.- Practical Extensions of Connected Operators.- Region Adjacency Graphs and Connected Morphological Operators.- Space Connectivity and Translation-Invariance.- Filtering.- Morphological Filters for Dummies.- Alternating Sequential Filters by Adaptive-Neighborhood Structuring Functions.- Quadratic Structuring Functions in Mathematical Morphology.- MRL-Filters and their Adaptive Optimal Design for Image Processing.- Weighted Composite Order-Statistics Filters: Optimal Morphological Pattern Recognition.- Nonlinear Systems Related to Morphology.- Links Between Mathematical Morphology, Rough Sets, Fuzzy Logic and Higher Order Neural Networks.- Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filter Optimization by Genetic Algorithms.- Soft Morphological Operators Based on Nonlinear Lp Mean Operators.- The Viterbi Optimal Runlength-Constrained Approximation Nonlinear Filter.- Algorithms, Architectures.- Recursive Morphology using Line Structuring Elements.- A Morphological Algorithm for Linear Segment Detection.- Toward the Optimal Decomposition of Arbitrarily Shaped Structuring Elements by Means of a Genetic Approach.- A Data Dependent Architecture Based on Seeded Region Growing Strategy for Advanced Morphological Operators.- Implementing Morphological Image Operators via Trained Neural Networks.- Granulometries, Texture.- Optimal and Adaptive Design of Reconstructive Granulometric Filters.- Periodic Lines and Their Application to Granulometries.- Local Grayscale Granulometries Based on Opening Trees.- Integrating Size Information into Intensity Histogram.- Probabilistic Model of Rough Surfaces Obtained by Electro-Erosion.- A Textural Analysis by Mathematical Morphology.- Segmentation.- Computation of Watersheds Based on Parallel Graph Algorithms.- Segmentation Algorithm by Multicriteria Region Merging.- Temporal Stability in Sequence Segmentation using the Watershed Algorithm.- The Dynamics of Minima and Contours.- A Morphological Interpolation Method for Mosaic Images.- Image Sequence Analysis.- Multivalued Morphology and its Application in Moving Object Segmentation and Tracking.- Mathematical Morphology for Image Sequences using the Knowledge of Dynamics.- Motion Picture Restoration Using Morphological Tools.- Segmentation-based Morphological Interpolation of Partition Sequences.- Learning, Document Analysis.- Set Operations on Closed Intervals and their Applications to the Automatic Programming of MMach’s.- Automatic Programming of MMach’s for OCR.- Morphological Preprocessing and Binarization for OCR Systems.- Adaptive Directional Morphology with Application to Document Analysis.- Applications.- Segmentation of 3D Pulmonary Trees Using Mathematical Morphology.- Automatic 3-Dimensional Segmentation of MR Brain Tissue using Filters by Reconstruction.- Watershed Analysis and Relaxation Labelling: A Cooperative Approach for the Interpretation of Cranial-MR Images Using a Statistical Digital Atlas.- Robust Extraction of AxonFibers from Large-scale Electron Micrograph Mosaics.- Strong Edge Features for Image Coding.- Water Depth Determination using Mathematical Morphology.- Geometrical and Topological Characterization of Cork Cells by Digital Image Analysis.- Author Index.