Publisher's Synopsis
This book leads the reader on a guided tour of the practical methods that can reveal the most important information in the digital images used for scientific, forensic and technical purposes. The author has a long and successful track record of applying, teaching, and in some cases developing, these techniques. His experience, and the richly illustrated examples in the text, show the reader the step-by-step procedures for correcting problems in recorded images, enhancing the critical details, isolating objects and structures for measurement, and deriving the quantitative data useful for subsequent analysis.