1.1 Image and Image Engineering1.1.1 Image Foundation1.1.2 Image Engineering1.2 The Scope of Image Analysis1.2.1 Definition and Research Content of Image Analysis1.2.2 Image Analysis System1.3 Digitization in Image Analysis1.3.1 Discrete Distance1.3.2 Connected Component1.3.3 Digitizing Model1.3.4 Digital Arcs and Chords1.4 Distance Transforms1.4.1 Definition and Property1.4.2 Computation of Local Distances1.4.3 Implementation of Discrete Distance Transformation1.5 Overview of the Book1.6 Problems and Questions1.7 Further Reading