title: Automated image segmentation by fractal grey tone functions.
abstract: A new image segmentation method is presented. It is based on mathematical derivations stemming from both mathematical morphology and fractal geometry. Structures of different nature are most often characterized by a fractal grey tone function, in a certain range of resolutions, with a particular value of the fractal dimension. Our method allows the isolation of such structures. It only requires a series of dilated and eroded grey tone images.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherches Biomathématiques et Biostatistiques (U.263 I.N.S.E.R.M.), Université Paris 7, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Rigaut
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008099:Liver / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008433:Mathematics; D051381:Rats; D012984:Software