This survey descrives on expert systems in image processing field. They are classified into, for example, (1) consultation of image processing, (2) automatic program generation for image processing, (3) use of frame work of expert systems, (4) automatic extraction of image features, (5) expert system including image processing as a part. It should be noted in dealing with images by expert systems that the expert system is only a technique or a tool for image processing and do not generate the original knowledge about the image processing. The important things are effective knowledge for the image processing themselves to the image processing which must be collected by human.
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