Applications to Image and Data Analysis

We describe an approach to the processing of an image by a front—end vision system. This system is a geometry engine [58] that converts the image intensity data into concise geometric information that can be interpreted by semantical systems in later stages of processing [31]. The basis for the approach is linear scale space [111, 11, 57, 4]. There has been much research in the area of both linear and nonlinear scale spaces. Two good research texts on the topic are [64] and [97]. Applications of these ideas to medical image analysis are also presented.