GRADIENT WATERSHEDS IN MORPHOLOGICAL SCALE-SPACE

After introducing several results relating to the modification of the homotopy of gradient functions based on extrema in the base image and building on earlier results in morphological scale-space, we introduce a scale-space monotonicity theorem for regions of an image defined by watersheds of a gradient function modified to retain only the local m inima or maxima of its smoothed parent image, We then illustrate the t heorem with an example of the scale-space extraction of texture featur es from the nuclei of cervical cells.