Front Cover; Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Integration; Copyright Page; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; PART I: IMAGE PROCESSING; SECTION I: SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 1. ACUITY: IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR THE PERSONAL COMPUTER; 1. Introduction; 2. Using Acuity; 3. Preparing an Experiment; 4. Examining the Resulting Data; 5. Exporting Data from an Experiment; 6. Summary; References; CHAPTER 2. LILY: A SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR IMAGE PROCESSING; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CHOICE AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES; 3. STRUCTURE OF THE PACKAGE

4. DATA REPRESENTATION, STRUCTURES AND SYNTAX5. DOCUMENTATION; 6. MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; 7. IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; 8. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. REAL TIME PROCESSING OF IMAGES; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DIFFERENT REAL-TIME REQUIREMENTS; 3. SYSTEMS WITH OPTIMAL RESPONSE-TIME; 4. SYSTEMS WITH OPTIMAL THROUGHPUT; 5. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; DISCUSSIONS PART I , SECTION I; SECTION II: ALGORITHMS; CHAPTER 4. A NEW PROCEDURE FOR LINE ENHANCEMENT APPLIED TO FINGERPRINTS; 1. ROTATION-INVARIANT OPERATORS; 2. LINE DETECTION; 3. THE FINGERPRINT APPLICATION; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 5. AN EDGE DETECTION MODEL BASED ON NON-LINEAR LAPLACEFILTERING1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EDGE DETECTION SCHEME; 3. EVALUATION PROCEDURE; 4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; 5. COMPARISONS; 6. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. PATTERN RECOGNITION BY DETECTION OF LOCAL SYMMETRIES; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 MODELING THE LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOODS BY HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; 3 DETECTION OF LOCAL SYMMETRIES; 4 APPLICATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS; 5 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7. ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF SHAPE AT LOW RESOLUTION; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE METHOD FOR HIGH ACCURACY; 3. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTFOOTNOTES AND REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. COMPUTING VISIBILITY PROPERTIES OF POLYGONS; Abstract; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. VISIBILITY FROM A POINT; 3. VISIBILITY FROM AN EDGE; 4. DETERMINING THE VISIBILITY REGION FROM AN EDGE; 5. DETECTING THE VISIBILITY OF A POLYGON FROM AN EDGE; 6. DETECTING VISIBILITY BETWEEN TWO EDGES OF A POLYGON; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. USING VANISHING POINTS TO LOCATE OBJECTS WITH SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE PROBLEM STATEMENT; 3. SOLUTION USING VANISHING POINTS; 4. ERROR ANALYSIS; 5. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; 6. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSREFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. GRAPH CONSTRUCTION AND MATCHING FOR 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PASSIVE APPROACH; 3. OVERVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION; 4. 2D GRAPH BUILDING; 5. PRIMITIVE MATCHING AND 3D TRANSFORMS; 6. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 11. THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF MYOCARDIAL CONTRAST PERFUSION FROM BIPLANE CINEANGIOGRAMS.; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION BY MEANS OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; 3. DETERMINATION OF THE OPTIMAL BIPLANE ANGIOGRAPHIC VIEWS; 4. MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGE ACQUISITION