Title :
Morphological processing of medical images: an introduction
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
The theory of mathematical morphology is presented. The author introduces the basic morphological transformations and reviews some of their properties. He also summarizes the theory of morphological filtering. Several characteristics of mathematical morphology which demonstrate its applicability in the processing of medical images are outlined
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; filtering and prediction theory; picture processing; mathematical morphology; medical images; morphological filtering; Biomedical imaging; Computer science; Data mining; Filtering theory; Humans; Laboratories; Mathematics; Morphology; Psychology;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1991., IEEE International Sympoisum on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0050-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1991.176442
