Theory. - Metric Convexity in the Context of Mathematical Morphology. - Support Function and Minkowski Addition of Non-Convex Sets. - Lattice Operators Underlying Dynamic Systems. - Comparison of Multiscale Morphology Approaches: PDE Implemented via Curve Evolution versus Chamfer Distance Transforms. - An Attribute-Based Approach to Mathematical Morphology. - Spatially-Variant Mathematical Morphology: Minimal Basis Representation. - The Generalized Tailor Problem. - Discrete Random Functions: Modeling and Analysis Using Mathematical Morphology. - Morphological Sampling of Random Closed Sets. - Connectivity. - Connectivity on complete lattices. - Practical Extensions of Connected Operators. - Region Adjacency Graphs and Connected Morphological Operators. - Space Connectivity and Translation-Invariance. - Filtering. - Morphological Filters for Dummies. - Alternating Sequential Filters by Adaptive-Neighborhood Structuring Functions. - Quadratic Structuring Functions in Mathematical Morphology. - MRL-Filters and their Adaptive Optimal Design for Image Processing. - Weighted Composite Order-Statistics Filters: Optimal Morphological Pattern Recognition. - Nonlinear Systems Related to Morphology. - Links Between Mathematical Morphology Rough Sets Fuzzy Logic and Higher Order Neural Networks. - Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filter Optimization by Genetic Algorithms. - Soft Morphological Operators Based on Nonlinear Lp Mean Operators. - The Viterbi Optimal Runlength-Constrained Approximation Nonlinear Filter. - Algorithms Architectures. - Recursive Morphology using Line Structuring Elements. - A Morphological Algorithm for Linear Segment Detection. - Toward the Optimal Decomposition of Arbitrarily Shaped Structuring Elements by Means of a Genetic Approach. - A Data Dependent Architecture Based on Seeded Region Growing Strategy for Advanced Morphological Operators. - Implementing Morphological Image Operators via Trained Neural Networks. - Granulometries Texture. - Optimal and Adaptive Design of Reconstructive Granulometric Filters. - Periodic Lines and Their Application to Granulometries. - Local Grayscale Granulometries Based on Opening Trees. - Integrating Size Information into Intensity Histogram. - Probabilistic Model of Rough Surfaces Obtained by Electro-Erosion. - A Textural Analysis by Mathematical Morphology. - Segmentation. - Computation of Watersheds Based on Parallel Graph Algorithms. - Segmentation Algorithm by Multicriteria Region Merging. - Temporal Stability in Sequence Segmentation using the Watershed Algorithm. - The Dynamics of Minima and Contours. - A Morphological Interpolation Method for Mosaic Images. - Image Sequence Analysis. - Multivalued Morphology and its Application in Moving Object Segmentation and Tracking. - Mathematical Morphology for Image Sequences using the Knowledge of Dynamics. - Motion Picture Restoration Using Morphological Tools. - Segmentation-based Morphological Interpolation of Partition Sequences. - Learning Document Analysis. - Set Operations on Closed Intervals and their Applications to the Automatic Programming of MMach's. - Automatic Programming of MMach's for OCR. - Morphological Preprocessing and Binarization for OCR Systems. - Adaptive Directional Morphology with Application to Document Analysis. - Applications. - Segmentation of 3D Pulmonary Trees Using Mathematical Morphology. - Automatic 3-Dimensional Segmentation of MR Brain Tissue using Filters by Reconstruction. - Watershed Analysis and Relaxation Labelling: A Cooperative Approach for the Interpretation of Cranial-MR Images Using a Statistical Digital Atlas. - Robust Extraction of AxonFibers from Large-scale Electron Micrograph Mosaics. - Strong Edge Features for Image Coding. - Water Depth Determination using Mathematical Morphology. - Geometrical and Topological Characterization of Cork Cells by Digital Image Analysis. - Author Index. Language: English