Three dimensional image processing by mathematical morphology

3D image processing is an important problem of modern science and technology research. With the development of optical technology, the laser confocal scanning microscope (LCSM) system has been used successfully as advanced 3D image instrument in the medical research domain. This paper is primarily to discuss mathematical morphology method of processing 3D image combining with 3D cell image formed by LCSM system. Paper begins from 2D mathematical morphology and specializes various 3D mathematical morphology theories. It offers a series of mathematical morphology methods of 3D image processing about its various cases. At last we use these methods to process the 3D cell image formed by the laser confocal scanning microscope system.