8Mathematical Morphology
Mathematical morphology is a form-based mathematical tools suitable for image analysis (Serra, 1982). Its basic idea is to apply some forms of structure elements to measure and to extract the corresponding shape in image, in order to achieve image analysis and identification purposes. The applications of mathematical morphology can simplify image data, maintain their basic shape characteristics, and remove extraneous structures. Mathematical morphology algorithm has also a natural structure for parallel implementation.
The operands of mathematical morphology operation may be a binary image or a gray-scale image. In this chapter, they will be described separately.
The sections of this chapter will be arranged as follows: ...
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