Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications

Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications

P. SoilleSpringer-Verlag1999316 pp.ISBN 3-540-65671-5£57.50 Hard cover

Keywords: Imaging, Image processing

Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications is a comprehensive text which aims to provide the reader with an in-depth knowledge of this interesting topic. Background information about digital image processing is included and an extensive knowledge of topology or set theory is not required.

This book is suitable for engineers, scientists and practitioners who are interested or involved in digital image processing and analysis. Techniques are emphasised above the underlying mathematical theory and concepts are clearly illustrated with real applications, which enables the reader to gain the knowledge required for solving practical problems.

The first two chapters of the book introduce mathematical morphology and relevant background notions. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 address erosion and dilation,morphological opening and closing and hit-or-miss and skeletons, respectively.

Geodesic transformations and metrics are discussed in chapters 6 and 7,followed by filtering in chapter 8. The following two chapters discuss segmentation and classification. Chapter 11, the concluding chapter, introduces various application fields, which include geo-sciences and remote sensing,biological and medical imaging, document processing and image coding.

Also included are a list of symbols and an appendix, which provides ANSI C code for implementing the point-wise minimum between the closing of an image by a pair of dual half-planes of given orientations.

This is a superbly written book which is suitable for anyone who is interested or involved in digital image processing.