popLA AN INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR TEXTURE ANALYSIS

Abstract

The quantitative analysis of texture data is a computationally intensive task requiring mathematically sophisticated techniques. The small market has made commercial distribution of texture analysis software expensive and, on the whole, unsatisfactory. Additionally, most of the software that has been made available has been specific to one or another brand of x-ray hardware and associated computer. In some cases, proprietary data structures have made information interchange almost impossible.