An expert system for image processing

The authors have developed an expert system that can automatically construct image-processing algorithms by combining elemental processing modules included in an image-processing software package. This system has two kinds of knowledge databases: one contains production rules for generating a rough flow of image processing based on experts´ experience, and the other is a set of frames representing the function of each of the package´s image-processing modules. Constructing an image-processing expert system involves the following practical problems: image characteristics; processing flow inference, and processing module selection. The authors describe how each of these has been handled