Morphological Connected Openings to Image Segmentation

Abstract

In this work, first is exposed the various definitions of connection by the mathematical morphology, then the application of several morphological connected openings for image segmentation is presented. Each one of the openings has a particular behavior because its definition under the concept of connection, so it could be exploited to separate some particular objects in the images or to filter different structures of interest. Finally, the performance of each operator is illustrated through several examples.