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In order to recognize or measure objects in images, it is necessary to distinguish them from their surroundings. This is the familiar problem of separating figure from ground, which we can also generalize to include separating features from other, touching ones.
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Russ, J.C. (1990). Segmentation of Edges and Lines. In: Computer-Assisted Microscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0563-7_4
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