4. Conclusions

The intent of this communication is to present the fundamental morphological imaging concepts. The recent expansion of interest is evidenced in the many industrial applications that have been developed or currently being developed. These applications range over the entire imaging spectrum and include medical imaging inspection, metallurgy and remote sensing, to name a few. At present the application areas are expanding greatly. In order to improve the behaviour of standard morphological filters, soft morphological filters have been introduced. The basic soft morphological operations have been also demonstrated in this tutorial.