structuring element

collocation in English

meaningsofstructureandelement

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structure
noun
uk
/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/
us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/
us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofstructureandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The infrastructure provided a majorstructuringelementand created a 'dual' order of supporting and supported.
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This can be developed by saying that an 'organic' growth, without thestructuringelementof some kind of framework, is chaos.
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This simple probe is calledstructuringelement, and is itself a binary image (i.e., a subset of the space or grid).
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Another class of operations is based on the notion of filtering with astructuringelement.
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The recursive algorithms permit all possible sized openings or closings for a givenstructuringelementto be computed in constant time per pixel.
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The variable "n" is called the "size" of thestructuringelement.
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In these reports the contrast between the two groups was one of the structuring elements of the investigations rather than an incidental feature of them.
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Important operations are morphological opening and morphological closing which consist of erosion followed by dilation and dilation followed by erosion, respectively, using the samestructuringelement.
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Astructuringelementis a simple, pre-defined shape, represented as a binary image, used to probe another binary image, in morphological operations such as erosion, dilation, opening, and closing.
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Grayscale structuring elements are also functions of the same format, called structuring functions.
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Serra came up with the idea of using structuring elements for the analysis, which led to the concept of hit-or-miss transform.
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