Point to Watershed?

Posted by Nathaniel Ryckman on May 13, 2011; 7:28pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Point-to-Watershed-tp3684509.html

I was wondering what the function of Watershed was compared to the Maximum Finder?

What is the point in converting a gray scale image to a Euclidean Distance Map before flooding? Is it to try to compensate for over segmentation from the Maximum Finder?

Thanks for the clarification.