“…These numerical characteristics, herein called shape measures, are employed in many computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition tasks [2,4]. Shape measures are often designed to evaluate certain shape properties, like elongation [1,25], convexity [14,16], tortuosity [7], and many more. Some of these measures are generic, and aim to satisfy some specific properties such as rotational [8,23] or affine [12,5] invariance, for example.…”