Hands-on Morphological Image Processing

289 Pages·2003·3.915 MB·English

by  Edward R. Dougherty, Roberto A. Lotufo

Hands-on Morphological
Image Processing
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Hands-on Morphological
Image Processing
Edward R. Dougherty • Roberto A. Lotufo
Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering
Volume TT59
Arthur R. Weeks, Jr., Series Editor
Invivo Research Inc. and University of Central Florida
SPIE PRESS
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Dougherty, Edward R.
Hands-on morphological image processing / Edward R. Dougherty, Roberto A. Lotufo.
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Contents
Preface xi
ListofSymbols xv
1 BinaryErosionandDilation 1
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Euclidean andDiscreteBinaryImages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Erosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 Dilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.5 Algebraic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.6 FilterProperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.7 Relationship toSetOperations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.8 BoundedOperators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.9 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.10 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2 BinaryOpeningandClosing 25
2.1 Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.2 Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.3 FilterProperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.4 Application ofOpeningandClosingFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.5 Alternating Sequential Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.6 Invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.7 -Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
(cid:0)
2.8 Demonstration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.9 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.10 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3 Morphological ProcessingofBinaryImages 45
3.1 PixelRegions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.2 Boundary Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.3 Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.4 Conditional Dilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.5 MarkerSelectioninReconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.6 Reconstructive -opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
(cid:0)
3.7 LogicalOpenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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3.8 LogicalStructuralFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.9 Connected Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3.10 Skeletonization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
3.11 DistanceTransform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
3.12 GeodesicDistanceTransform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.13 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.14 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4 Hit-or-MissTransform 79
4.1 TheTransform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.2 ObjectRecognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.3 Thinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.4 Pruning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.5 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.6 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5 Gray-ScaleMorphology 91
5.1 Mathematical Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2 Gray-ScaleErosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.3 Gray-ScaleDilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.4 Algebraic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.5 FilterProperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.6 UmbraTransform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.7 FlatStructuringElements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.8 Gray-ScaleMorphology forDiscreteImages . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.9 Gray-Scale Morphology for Discrete BoundedSignals . . . . . 113
5.10 Gray-ScaleOpeningandClosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.11 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
5.12 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6 Morphological ProcessingofGray-ScaleImages 129
6.1 Morphological Gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.2 Top-HatTransform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6.3 Gray-ScaleAlternating SequentialFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.4 Gray-ScaleMorphological Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.5 FlatZonesandConnectedFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6.6 Gray-ScaleReconstructive Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
6.7 Connected Alternating SequentialFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
6.8 ImageExtrema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.9 Markers From Regional Maxima of FilteredImages . . . . . . 147
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6.10 Extinction Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
6.11 Demonstration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
6.12 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.13 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7 Morphological Segmentation—Watershed 163
7.1 Watershed FromMarkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
7.2 Watershed, VoronoiDiagram,andSKIZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.3 Segmentation ofOverlapped ConvexCells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.4 InnerandOuterMarkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.5 Hierarchical Watershed Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
7.6 Watershed TransformAlgorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
7.7 Demonstrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
7.8 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.9 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
8 Granulometries 193
8.1 Granulometries GeneratedbyaSingleOpening . . . . . . . . . . 193
8.2 DiscreteSizeDistributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
8.3 TheOpenandDiscrete-Size Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
8.4 Granulometries onRandomBinaryImages . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
8.5 Granulometric Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.6 GeneralGranulometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.7 LogicalGranulometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
8.8 DiscreteGranulometric BandpassFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
8.9 Gray-ScaleGranulometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
8.10 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
8.11 Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
9 AutomaticDesignofMorphological Operators 227
9.1 BooleanFunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
9.2 Morphological Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
9.3 Optimal (cid:0)-Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
9.4 DesignofOptimal (cid:0)-Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
9.5 OptimalIncreasing Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
9.6 Differencing Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
9.7 Resolution Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
9.8 Multiresolution Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
9.9 Envelope Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
9.10 ApertureFilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
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9.11 RelationtoPatternRecognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
9.12 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Index 269