This bibliography with hyperlinks consists of references I have cited so far in my scientific publications (from 1995 onwards).  It includes the full bibliography of my book Morphological Image Analysis.  Note that  this bibliography is also searchable in the Bibliography on Morphological Image Analysis  of the Collection of Computer Sciences Bibliographies (with results dowloadable in BibTeX format).
 

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