
8
Morphological Image Processing
Roberto A. Lotufo, Romaric Audigier,
Andre
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V. Sau
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de, and Rubens C. Mach ado
8.1 Introduction
This chapter presents the main concepts of morphological processing (MP) for
the microscope image analyst. Morphological processing has applications in
such diverse areas of image processing as filtering, segmentation, and pattern
recognition, to both binary and grayscale images. One of the advantages of MP
is its being well suited for discrete image processing, because its operators can be
implemented in digital computers with complete fidelity to their mathematical
definitions. Another advantage of MP is its inherent building