Inhaltsangabe1 Introduction to Knowledge-Based Systems.- 2 Knowledge-Based System Architectures and Applications.- 3 Knowledge Elicitation.- 4 Knowledge Representation.- 5 Neural Networks.- 6 Introduction to Image Processing.- 7 Frequency Space Analysis.- 8 Image Enhancement in Real Space.- 9 Image Segmentation and Analysis.- 10 Introduction.- 11 Current Knowledge-Based Image Processing Systems.- 12 Knowledge-Based Image Processing: The Way Forward.- 13 Summary and Conclusions.- Appendix A: Exercises and Further Reading.- References.- Author Index.