INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION TO SHAPE ANALYSIS -- CASE STUDIES -- COMPUTATIONAL SHAPE ANALYSIS -- ADDITIONAL MATERIAL -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- -- BASIC MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS -- BASIC CONCEPTS -- LINEAR ALGEBRA -- DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY -- MULTIVARIATE CALCULUS -- CONVOLUTION AND CORRELATION -- PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS -- FOURIER ANALYSIS -- GRAPHS AND COMPLEX NETWORKS -- SHAPE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING -- IMAGE REPRESENTATION -- IMAGE PROCESSING AND FILTERING -- IMAGE SEGMENTATION: EDGE DETECTION -- IMAGE SEGMENTATION: ADDITIONAL ALGORITHMS -- BINARY MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY -- FURTHER IMAGE PROCESSING -- REFERENCES -- -- SHAPE CONCEPTS -- INTRODUCTION TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES -- CONTINUOUS TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES -- PLANAR SHAPE TRANSFORMATIONS -- CHARACTERIZING 2D SHAPES IN TERMS OF FEATURES -- CLASSIFYING 2D SHAPES -- REPRESENTING 2D SHAPES -- SHAPE OPERATIONS -- SHAPE METRICS -- MORPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS -- SHAPE REPRESENTATION -- INTRODUCTION -- PARAMETRIC CONTOURS -- SETS OF CONTOUR POINTS -- CURVE APPROXIMATIONS -- DIGITAL STRAIGHT LINES -- HOUGH TRANSFORMS -- EXACT DILATIONS -- DISTANCE TRANSFORMS -- EXACT DISTANCE TRANSFORM THROUGH EXACT DILATIONS -- VORONOI TESSELLATIONS -- SCALE-SPACE SKELETONIZATION -- BOUNDING REGIONS -- SHAPE CHARACTERIZATION -- STATISTICS FOR SHAPE DESCRIPTORS -- SOME GENERAL DESCRIPTORS -- FRACTAL GEOMETRY AND COMPLEXITY DESCRIPTORS -- CURVATURE -- FOURIER DESCRIPTORS -- MULTISCALE SHAPE CHARACTERIZATION -- MULTISCALE TRANSFORMS -- FOURIER-BASED MULTISCALE CURVATURE -- WAVELET-BASED MULTISCALE CONTOUR ANALYSIS -- MULTISCALE ENERGIES -- SHAPE RECOGNITION -- INTRODUCTION TO SHAPE CLASSIFICATION -- SUPERVISED PATTERN CLASSIFICATION -- UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING -- A CASE STUDY: LEAVES CLASSIFICATION -- EVALUATING CLASSIFICATION METHODS -- STRUCTURAL SHAPE RECOGNITION -- INTRODUCTION -- SYNTACTIC PATTERN RECOGNITION -- REGION DECOMPOSITION -- GRAPH MODELS -- SPATIAL RELATIONS -- GRAPH MATCHING -- CASE STUDY: INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION -- COMPLEX NETWORKS FOR IMAGE AND SHAPE ANALYSIS -- EPILOGUE -- FUTURE TRENDS IN SHAPE ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION.