. Morphological scheme for morphometric analysis of epidermal biopsy images. In International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image Processing II. Fontainebleau; 1994. 
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This paper addresses the problem of morphometric analysis of microscope images from cutaneous
biopsy samples. A morphological scheme is applied for the automatic measurement of
histologic parameters of the epidermis. It consists in an unsupervised segmentation approach that
is strongly based on an ‘a priori’ model of the images. The watershed algorithm has proven to be
a very powerful tool for the introduction of such ‘a priori’ information, because the segmentation
process can be conveniently guided by some strategic markers in order to perform the detection
of the desired structures. This permits an automatic measurement of some objective parameters
which are highly correlated with the evolution of some skin diseases.