PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS IN CYBERNETIC APPLICATIONS.

Introduces series of articles published in the January issue of the journal "Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal." Presentation of several speech-to-speech translation systems based on finite-state models; Problem of machine vision applications, deriving a suitable method to deal with the effects of illumination changes; Introduction of a novel approach to image segmentation that is applied to digital angiograms analysis.