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In this paper the interaction between Minkowski algebra, nondiscrete cellular topologies and some well known basic cellular image processing operations is investigated. It is shown that some useful topological measures can be extracted from these basic image operations and that these operations can be viewed from a nonalgebraic and purely topological point of view.
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The author wishes to acknowledge support for this research by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research/AFSC, United States Air Force, under Contract F49620-C-82-0035. The United States Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprint for governmental purposes nothwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.
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Ankeney, L.A., Ritter, G.X. Cellular topology and its applications in image processing. International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 12, 433–456 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00977969
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