
Chapter 10
Mathematical Morphology
10.1 Introduction
Mathematical morphology, or morphology for short, is a branch of image processing that
is particularly useful for analyzing shapes in images. We shall develop basic morphological
tools for investigation of binary images, and then show how to extend these tools to grayscale
images. MATLAB has many tools for binary morphology in the image processing toolbox;
most of which can be used for grayscale morphology as well.
10.2 Basic Ideas
The theory of mathematical morphology can be developed in many different ways. We
shall adopt one standard method which uses operations on sets of points. A very solid and ...