Mathematical Morphology

Mathematical Morphology is a theory built upon lattice algebra and topology which considers shift-invariant (translation invariant) operators based mainly on the Minkowski addition operator. Morphology's applications are found mostly in Morphological image processing, for instance: detection of image elements, image segmentation, image filtering, granulometry and distance transforms. Morphology is no longer limited to binary images, its operators have been extended to handle grayscale images.