". . .nicely presented and profusely illustrated. . . .recommend[ed]. I liked this book. . .I would recommend it. "---Optics and Lasers in Engineering". . .provideds the reader with a well-written and thorough introduction to the topics and access to the literature. "---Newsletter on Computation and Applied Mathematics

• Nonlinear filters; morphological segmentation for textures and particles; multispectral image segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging; thinning and skeletonizing; syntactic image pattern recognition; heuristic parallel approach for 3D articulated line-drawing object pattern representation and recognition; handwritten character recognition; digital image compression; image-processing architectures; digital halftoning.

". . .nicely presented and profusely illustrated. . . .recommend[ed]. I liked this book. . .I would recommend it. "---Optics and Lasers in Engineering". . .provideds the reader with a well-written and thorough introduction to the topics and access to the literature. "---Newsletter on Computation and Applied Mathematics

• Nonlinear filters; morphological segmentation for textures and particles; multispectral image segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging; thinning and skeletonizing; syntactic image pattern recognition; heuristic parallel approach for 3D articulated line-drawing object pattern representation and recognition; handwritten character recognition; digital image compression; image-processing architectures; digital halftoning.