The evolution of digital image processing can be viewed as a microcosm of the general data processing field. Originally established as a batch-type operation with only a handful of practitioners and a few applications, it has exhibited a steadily increasing growth rate, prompted by many of the same factors which have been responsible for the vast expansion in general data processing.
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