Theory -- Metric Convexity in the Context of Mathematical Morphology -- Support Function and Minkowski Addition of Non-Convex Sets -- Lattice Operators Underlying Dynamic Systems -- Comparison of Multiscale Morphology Approaches: PDE Implemented via Curve Evolution versus Chamfer Distance Transforms -- An Attribute-Based Approach to Mathematical Morphology -- Spatially-Variant Mathematical Morphology: Minimal Basis Representation -- The Generalized Tailor Problem -- Discrete Random Functions: Modeling and Analysis Using Mathematical Morphology -- Morphological Sampling of Random Closed Sets -- Connectivity -- Connectivity on complete lattices -- Practical Extensions of Connected Operators -- Region Adjacency Graphs and Connected Morphological Operators -- Space Connectivity and Translation-Invariance -- Filtering -- Morphological Filters for Dummies -- Alternating Sequential Filters by Adaptive-Neighborhood Structuring Functions -- Quadratic Structuring Functions in Mathematical Morphology -- MRL-Filters and their Adaptive Optimal Design for Image Processing -- Weighted Composite Order-Statistics Filters: Optimal Morphological Pattern Recognition -- Nonlinear Systems Related to Morphology -- Links Between Mathematical Morphology, Rough Sets, Fuzzy Logic and Higher Order Neural Networks -- Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filter Optimization by Genetic Algorithms -- Soft Morphological Operators Based on Nonlinear Lp Mean Operators -- The Viterbi Optimal Runlength-Constrained Approximation Nonlinear Filter -- Algorithms, Architectures -- Recursive Morphology using Line Structuring Elements -- A Morphological Algorithm for Linear Segment Detection -- Toward the Optimal Decomposition of Arbitrarily Shaped Structuring Elements by Means of a Genetic Approach -- A Data Dependent Architecture Based on Seeded Region Growing Strategy for Advanced Morphological Operators -- Implementing Morphological Image Operators via Trained Neural Networks -- Granulometries, Texture -- Optimal and Adaptive Design of Reconstructive Granulometric Filters -- Periodic Lines and Their Application to Granulometries -- Local Grayscale Granulometries Based on Opening Trees -- Integrating Size Information into Intensity Histogram -- Probabilistic Model of Rough Surfaces Obtained by Electro-Erosion -- A Textural Analysis by Mathematical Morphology -- Segmentation -- Computation of Watersheds Based on Parallel Graph Algorithms -- Segmentation Algorithm by Multicriteria Region Merging -- Temporal Stability in Sequence Segmentation using the Watershed Algorithm -- The Dynamics of Minima and Contours -- A Morphological Interpolation Method for Mosaic Images -- Image Sequence Analysis -- Multivalued Morphology and its Application in Moving Object Segmentation and Tracking -- Mathematical Morphology for Image Sequences using the Knowledge of Dynamics -- Motion Picture Restoration Using Morphological Tools -- Segmentation-based Morphological Interpolation of Partition Sequences -- Learning, Document Analysis -- Set Operations on Closed Intervals and their Applications to the Automatic Programming of MMach's -- Automatic Programming of MMach's for OCR -- Morphological Preprocessing and Binarization for OCR Systems -- Adaptive Directional Morphology with Application to Document Analysis -- Applications -- Segmentation of 3D Pulmonary Trees Using Mathematical Morphology -- Automatic 3-Dimensional Segmentation of MR Brain Tissue using Filters by Reconstruction -- Watershed Analysis and Relaxation Labelling: A Cooperative Approach for the Interpretation of Cranial-MR Images Using a Statistical Digital Atlas -- Robust Extraction of Axon Fibers from Large-scale Electron Micrograph Mosaics -- Strong Edge Features for Image Coding -- Water Depth Determination using Mathematical Morphology -- Geometrical and Topological Characterization of Cork Cells by Digital Image Analysis -- Author Index.