%0 Journal Article %A Gonzalez-Lee, Mario %A Miyatake, Mariko Nakano %A Perez-Meana, Hector Manuel %D 2001 %I Begell House %N 4&5 %P 12 %R 10.1615/TelecomRadEng.v56.i4-5.150 %T Superficial Adaptation Method for Stack Filters Design %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/0632a9d54950b268,422345a314832522,47f47fe430875850.html %V 56 %X This paper presents a theoretical review of STACK FILTERS theory in the digital image processing field, and proposed a new approach which improves the adaptation process commonly used in traditional STACK FILTER, which needs so many computation power in order to reach the optimal filter. The surface adaptation method proposed overcomes this situation by reducing the number of operations performed to reach the same optimal filter. Computer simulation results are given which show the desirable features of proposed approach. %8 2007-03-19