This unique reference presents in-depth coverage of the latest methods and applications of digital image processing describing various computer architectures ideal for satisfying specific image processing demands.Nonlinear filters; morphological segmentation for textures and particles; multispectral image segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging; thinning and skeletonizing; syntactic image pattern recognition; heuristic parallel approach for 3D articulated line-drawing object pattern representation and recognition; handwritten character recognition; digital image compression; image-processing architectures; digital halftoning.