Before revision:  The proposed process for detecting non-overlapping ellipses outperformed three established methods, proposed by Fornaciari, Patraucean, and Pangiotakis, in images .
After revision:  The proposed process for detecting non-overlapping ellipses achieved F-measure of 99.3\% on real images, compared to F-measures of 42.4\%, 65.6\%, and 59.2\%, obtained using the methods of Fornaciari, Patraucean, and Pangiotakis, in images .