In the practice of [[Imagedigital image processing]] Alexandre X. Falca˜ o, Jorge Stolfi, and Roberto de Alencar Lotufo have created and proven that the '''Image Foresting Transform''' (IFT) can be used as a time saver in processing 2-D, 3-D images, and moving images.<ref name="Falcao">Falcao, A.X. Stolfi, J. de Alencar Lotufo, R. : "The image foresting transform: theory, algorithms, and applications", In IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, VOL. 26, NO. 1, JANUARY 2004</ref> The transform uses a method borrowed from [[machine learning]] that is known as [[Randomrandom forest]] which finds the "cheapest" way to go about applying image operators.
