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In the previous chapter on stereo pair imaging, there was some discussion of measurements of object locations in a transparent medium. Usually, this is restricted to disconnected points (particles or other small objects), or to simple linear or planar features such as fibers or membranes. This is necessary because the complexity of matching points in the two images increases very rapidly when more intricate arrangements of points are encountered, and especially when precedence (one surface lying in front of another and obscuring it) makes it impossible to locate the corresponding point in the second image unequivocally, so that fusion is possible. The final chapter will discuss some of the ways that the human visual system deals with this problem, by grouping algorithms and continuity of lines and surfaces. These are still very difficult to model in a computer image analysis system.

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Russ, J.C. (1990). Serial Sections. In: Computer-Assisted Microscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0563-7_12

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