Tutorial 4: exercise

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This document was prepared at Caltech with financial support from the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.

This tutorial exercise was generated from an Jupyter notebook. You can download the notebook here. Use this downloaded Jupyter notebook to fill out your responses.

Exercise 1

What is segmentation in the context of image processing?

Exercise 2

What is thresholding, and what is it used for?

Exercise 3

What is a structuring element and what is it used for?

Exercise 4

How would you define an edge in an image? Describe how a Laplacian of Gaussian filter can be used to find edges in an image. Why can't we just use a Laplacian filter without the Gaussian?