Texture segmentation based on local morphological pattern spectra provides an attractive alternative to linear scale spaces as the latter suffer from blurring and does not preserve the shape of image features. However, for successful segmentation, pattern spectra derived using a number of structuring elements, often at different orientations, are required. This paper addresses this problem by t...

fertilization potential, decisions on how to improve sperm morphology remain difficult to address. Smoking, alcohol consumption, caffeine intake and drug use can affect fertility; however, a conclusive connection between these factors and sperm morphology has not been demonstrated. Furthermore, use of dietary supplements and vitamins has not been shown to directly affect sperm morphology. While...

This paper presents results of investigation of scaling of calcium sulfate (CaSO4) on metallic pipes. In this study, the optimizing variables; namely temperature (50-600C), concentration of Ca2+ (2000-3000 ppm), citric acid concentration (10-20 ppm) were set-up to provide the optimum yield of the mass scales. The mineral scale detected using XRD is mainly gypsum, and the scale has a plate like ...

In this paper, fuzzy morpuhological image processing is explained and reviewed. Based on the mathematical morphology rules, fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic theorem fuzzy morphology operations are defined. In general mathematical morphology operation definitions are similar structures set theory and set operations definitions. For this reason fuzzy set theory is easly applied to the mathematical morp...

This paper is intended as a rst introduction into mathematical morphology, and does not require any preliminary knowledge in this eld. The paper discusses the basic morphological operators, such as dilations, erosions, openings, closings, rank operators, skeletons, and reconstruction operators. Furthermore, it introduces the complete lattice framework for morphology. The paper concludes with an...

A method for enhancing the contrast of gray scale images using multiscale mathematical morphology is presented in this paper. The conventional theoretical concept of enhancing image has been extended from mathematical morphology to multiscale mathematical morphological approach. Gray scale images sometimes suffer from lack of contrast. So to enhance image efficiently a multiscale top hat transf...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Sandy beach morphology 2.1. Primary beach profile 2.2. Secondary morphological features 2.3. Micro-morphology 2.4. Scale and composite morphological features 3. Environmental boundary conditions and external hydrodynamic forcing 3.1. Boundary conditions 3.2. Hydrodynamic forcing 4. Morphological change 4.