title: A microcomputer-based vision system for area measurement.
abstract: A vision system for measuring the area of an arbitrarily shaped object is described. The algorithm consists of a gray-level thresholding technique combined with a region correction procedure based on mathematical morphology. All processing steps are carried out on a microcomputer system equipped with a video digitizer. The algorithm has been successfully applied to a number of images of medical interest including skin wounds and various microscopic-scale objects such as cell cross-sections and multicellular tissues. Excellent agreement between results obtained by the automatic method and by using standard mechanical means has been established experimentally. The approach is demonstrated by a number of experimental examples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Wysocki
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Bovik
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Diller
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003201:Computers; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000473:pathology; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008838:Microcomputers; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000473:pathology