Integral-geometry morphological image analysis

Physics Report

Volumn 347, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 461-538

  Michielsen, K ^a   De Raedt, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

07.05.Pj; Electron microscopy; Euler characteristic; Integral geometry; Mesostructures; Minkowski functionals; Morphological image processing; Morphology; Polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035402513     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-1573(00)00106-X     Document Type: Review

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