scikit-image/scikit-image — pull request #673 by ahojnnes (2013-08-05 20:01:40+00:00)
Title: Deprecate dilation and erosion functions

Since the rank filter implementation is much faster and provides the same functionality plus the ability to filter 16bit images, there is no need to have a separate implementation.

My plan is to remove the deprecation in the next release, but keep the names erosion and dilation as aliases for the minimum and maximum filters (noted in the TODO.txt).