... electrical engineering or computer sciencecourse in the subject. Also, it can be used as a reference manual for scientists whoare engaged in image processing research, developers of image processing ... Analysis,” concentrates on the extrac-tion of information from an image. Specific topics include morphological image processing, edge detection, image feature extraction, image segmentation, objectshape ... to characterize the image to be processed. There are twobasic mathematical characterizations of interest: deterministic and statistical. Indeterministic image representation, a mathematical image...