| The problem approached in this thesis is how to help the novice do image processing with a rule-based system.;An interactive expert system prototype, which includes the image processing functions of SADIE, has been created. A software interface between the image processing environment, SADIE, and the expert system tool, CLIPS, has been coded in standard C. Knowledge about low-level image processing (contrast enhancement and noise suppression) has been successfully implemented in the CLIPS program. The experimental results have shown that this system is efficient and friendly.;Although this system was developed on a VAX under VMS, it is easily modified for most machines because it includes the portability of CLIPS. With only a minimal amount of work, we also can incorporate the system with the new SADIE C version, which has been developed in another project. |
