IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1987
... Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. ... Erchan Aptoula , Sébastien Lefèvre, A basinmo... more ... Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. ... Erchan Aptoula , Sébastien Lefèvre, A basinmorphology approach to colour image segmentation by region merging, Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision, November 18-22, 2007, Tokyo, Japan. ...
Hierarchical segmentation is a multi-scale analysis of an image and provides a series of simplify... more Hierarchical segmentation is a multi-scale analysis of an image and provides a series of simplifying nested partitions. Such a hierarchy is rarely an end by itself and requires external criteria or heuristics to solve problems of image segmentation, texture extraction and semantic image labelling. In this theoretical paper we introduce a novel framework: hierarchical cuts, to formulate optimization problems on hierarchies of segmentations. Second we provide the three important notions of h-increasing, singular, and scale increasing energies, necessary to solve the global combinatorial optimization problem of partition selection and which results in linear time dynamic programs. Common families of such energies are summarized, and also a method to generate new ones is described. Finally we demonstrate the application of this framework on problems of image segmentation and texture enhancement.
The risk of anastomotic failure in the unprepared colon is generally high. Therefore, Hartmann&am... more The risk of anastomotic failure in the unprepared colon is generally high. Therefore, Hartmann's operation is frequently employed in emergencies. We present an alternative technique, the exteriorized anastomosis described until now only for cases of perforation. Exteriorized anastomosis was performed in 14 patients. The preoperative diagnosis was occlusive neoplasm, perforated diverticulitis or traumatic performation of the sigmoid colon. Four patients subsequently developed partial anastomotic dehiscence, but without the consequences of intraperitoneal dehiscence. We think that exteriorized anastomosis is a useful alternative in high risk situations.
Page 1. CIRCUITS SYSTEMS SIGNAL PROCESS VOL. 11, NO. 1, 1992 AN OVERVIEW OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERI... more Page 1. CIRCUITS SYSTEMS SIGNAL PROCESS VOL. 11, NO. 1, 1992 AN OVERVIEW OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING* Jean Serra 1 and Luc Vincent 1'2 Abstract. This paper consists of a tutorial overview of morphological ...
... Mar a D. Virto*, Isabel Agudt, Sol Montero$, Alicia Blanco*, Rodolfo Solozabalt, Jos M. Lasca... more ... Mar a D. Virto*, Isabel Agudt, Sol Montero$, Alicia Blanco*, Rodolfo Solozabalt, Jos M. Lascaray , Mar a J. Llama, Juan L. Serra$, L. Carlos Landetal', and Mertxe de Renobales* * Departamento de Bioqu mica y Biolog a Molecular, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad del Pa s ...
This paper deals with the theory and applications of spatially-variant discrete mathematical morp... more This paper deals with the theory and applications of spatially-variant discrete mathematical morphology. We review and formalize the definition of spatially variant dilation/erosion and opening/closing for binary and gray-level images using exclusively the structuring function, without resorting to complement. This theoretical framework allows to build morphological operators whose structuring elements can locally adapt their shape and orientation across the dominant direction of the structures in the image. The shape and orientation of the structuring element at each pixel are extracted from the image under study: the orientation is given by means of a diffusion process of the average square gradient field, which regularizes and extends the orientation information from the edges of the objects to the homogeneous areas of the image; and the shape of the orientated structuring elements can be linear or it can be given by the distance to relevant edges of the objects. The proposed filters are used on binary and gray-level images for enhancement of anisotropic features such as coherent, flow-like structures. Results of spatially-variant erosions/dilations and openings/closings-based filters prove the validity of this theoretical sound and novel approach.
Current content-based image retrieval techniques can typically perform efficient and effective se... more Current content-based image retrieval techniques can typically perform efficient and effective searches on heterogeneous image databases. This contribution deals with an approach based on the integration of color and texture description which is applied to a very homogeneous database: a blood image bank. The content of images is very similar and therefore it becomes imperative to use very precise descriptors: the color is described by classical color distributions (histograms) and for the texture, we introduce the morphological color size distributions. The similarity is measured by computing distance metrics between histograms. In order to increase the accuracy of retrieval, the results of color-based and texture-based retrieval are integrated by combining the associated dissimilarity values. The effects of different integration methods on classification performance are explained by means of experimental tests in a database of 123 cell images (leukocyte color images). After learning processing, where different feature selection and classifier definition alternatives are tested, a definitive integrated approach is proposed (precision ¢£¤££¥ ).
We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of an arbitrar... more We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of an arbitrary (unweighted) graph G. To this end, we consider two dual adjunctions between the edge set and the vertex set of G. This allows us (i) to recover the classical notion of a dilation/erosion of a subset of the vertices of G and (ii) to extend it to subgraphs of G. Afterward, we propose several new openings, closings, granulometries and alternate filters acting (i) on the subsets of the edge and vertex set of G and (ii) on the subgraphs of G. The proposed framework is then extended to functions that weight the vertices and edges of a graph. We illustrate with applications to binary and grayscale image denoising, for which, on the provided images, the proposed approach outperforms the usual one based on structuring elements.
We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of a (non-weig... more We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of a (non-weighted) graph G. To this end, we consider two dual adjunctions between the edge set and the vertex set of G. This allows us (i) to recover the classical notion of a dilation/erosion of a subset of the vertices of G and (ii) to extend it to subgraphs of G. Afterward, we propose several new erosions, dilations, granulometries and alternate filters acting (i) on the subsets of the edge and vertex set of G and (ii) on the subgraphs of G.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1987
... Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. ... Erchan Aptoula , Sébastien Lefèvre, A basinmo... more ... Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology. ... Erchan Aptoula , Sébastien Lefèvre, A basinmorphology approach to colour image segmentation by region merging, Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision, November 18-22, 2007, Tokyo, Japan. ...
Hierarchical segmentation is a multi-scale analysis of an image and provides a series of simplify... more Hierarchical segmentation is a multi-scale analysis of an image and provides a series of simplifying nested partitions. Such a hierarchy is rarely an end by itself and requires external criteria or heuristics to solve problems of image segmentation, texture extraction and semantic image labelling. In this theoretical paper we introduce a novel framework: hierarchical cuts, to formulate optimization problems on hierarchies of segmentations. Second we provide the three important notions of h-increasing, singular, and scale increasing energies, necessary to solve the global combinatorial optimization problem of partition selection and which results in linear time dynamic programs. Common families of such energies are summarized, and also a method to generate new ones is described. Finally we demonstrate the application of this framework on problems of image segmentation and texture enhancement.
The risk of anastomotic failure in the unprepared colon is generally high. Therefore, Hartmann&am... more The risk of anastomotic failure in the unprepared colon is generally high. Therefore, Hartmann's operation is frequently employed in emergencies. We present an alternative technique, the exteriorized anastomosis described until now only for cases of perforation. Exteriorized anastomosis was performed in 14 patients. The preoperative diagnosis was occlusive neoplasm, perforated diverticulitis or traumatic performation of the sigmoid colon. Four patients subsequently developed partial anastomotic dehiscence, but without the consequences of intraperitoneal dehiscence. We think that exteriorized anastomosis is a useful alternative in high risk situations.
Page 1. CIRCUITS SYSTEMS SIGNAL PROCESS VOL. 11, NO. 1, 1992 AN OVERVIEW OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERI... more Page 1. CIRCUITS SYSTEMS SIGNAL PROCESS VOL. 11, NO. 1, 1992 AN OVERVIEW OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING* Jean Serra 1 and Luc Vincent 1'2 Abstract. This paper consists of a tutorial overview of morphological ...
... Mar a D. Virto*, Isabel Agudt, Sol Montero$, Alicia Blanco*, Rodolfo Solozabalt, Jos M. Lasca... more ... Mar a D. Virto*, Isabel Agudt, Sol Montero$, Alicia Blanco*, Rodolfo Solozabalt, Jos M. Lascaray , Mar a J. Llama, Juan L. Serra$, L. Carlos Landetal', and Mertxe de Renobales* * Departamento de Bioqu mica y Biolog a Molecular, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad del Pa s ...
This paper deals with the theory and applications of spatially-variant discrete mathematical morp... more This paper deals with the theory and applications of spatially-variant discrete mathematical morphology. We review and formalize the definition of spatially variant dilation/erosion and opening/closing for binary and gray-level images using exclusively the structuring function, without resorting to complement. This theoretical framework allows to build morphological operators whose structuring elements can locally adapt their shape and orientation across the dominant direction of the structures in the image. The shape and orientation of the structuring element at each pixel are extracted from the image under study: the orientation is given by means of a diffusion process of the average square gradient field, which regularizes and extends the orientation information from the edges of the objects to the homogeneous areas of the image; and the shape of the orientated structuring elements can be linear or it can be given by the distance to relevant edges of the objects. The proposed filters are used on binary and gray-level images for enhancement of anisotropic features such as coherent, flow-like structures. Results of spatially-variant erosions/dilations and openings/closings-based filters prove the validity of this theoretical sound and novel approach.
Current content-based image retrieval techniques can typically perform efficient and effective se... more Current content-based image retrieval techniques can typically perform efficient and effective searches on heterogeneous image databases. This contribution deals with an approach based on the integration of color and texture description which is applied to a very homogeneous database: a blood image bank. The content of images is very similar and therefore it becomes imperative to use very precise descriptors: the color is described by classical color distributions (histograms) and for the texture, we introduce the morphological color size distributions. The similarity is measured by computing distance metrics between histograms. In order to increase the accuracy of retrieval, the results of color-based and texture-based retrieval are integrated by combining the associated dissimilarity values. The effects of different integration methods on classification performance are explained by means of experimental tests in a database of 123 cell images (leukocyte color images). After learning processing, where different feature selection and classifier definition alternatives are tested, a definitive integrated approach is proposed (precision ¢£¤££¥ ).
We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of an arbitrar... more We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of an arbitrary (unweighted) graph G. To this end, we consider two dual adjunctions between the edge set and the vertex set of G. This allows us (i) to recover the classical notion of a dilation/erosion of a subset of the vertices of G and (ii) to extend it to subgraphs of G. Afterward, we propose several new openings, closings, granulometries and alternate filters acting (i) on the subsets of the edge and vertex set of G and (ii) on the subgraphs of G. The proposed framework is then extended to functions that weight the vertices and edges of a graph. We illustrate with applications to binary and grayscale image denoising, for which, on the provided images, the proposed approach outperforms the usual one based on structuring elements.
We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of a (non-weig... more We study some basic morphological operators acting on the lattice of all subgraphs of a (non-weighted) graph G. To this end, we consider two dual adjunctions between the edge set and the vertex set of G. This allows us (i) to recover the classical notion of a dilation/erosion of a subset of the vertices of G and (ii) to extend it to subgraphs of G. Afterward, we propose several new erosions, dilations, granulometries and alternate filters acting (i) on the subsets of the edge and vertex set of G and (ii) on the subgraphs of G.
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