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Many examples of applications have been presented and referred to throughout the book. This last chapter provides a brief overview of other published papers reporting on applications that have been tackled with morphological algorithms. The papers are sorted by application fields (Secs. 11.1–11.7): geosciences and remote sensing, materials science, biomedical imaging, industrial applications, identification and security control, document processing, and image coding. Topics not fitting into these categories are discussed in Sec. 11.8. The chapter concludes with further links to morphology and the reference list.

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Soille, P. (1999). Application Fields. In: Morphological Image Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03939-7_11

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