MATLAB: How to crop specific portion of a grayscale image

image processingMATLAB

I have few OCT images which I want to crop. I have converted those images into grayscale images. Below are the resulting images. The part under the red box(brighter portion of the image) needs to be cropped. I tried using imcrop(). I want to create a GUI where the images could be cropped automatically by pressing a button. Using imcrop() won't allow me to automate the process as then I have to manually crop the images. I tried using the code below:
img = imread('gray4.jpg');
% % get red, green, blue channels
redC = img(:,:,1);
greenC = img(:,:,2);
blueC = img(:,:,3);
% % % mask where red channel is greater than blue channel and green channel greater than blue channel
  mask =  blueC > 120;
  % % overlay mask into original image
finalimg = bsxfun(@times, img, cast(mask,class(img)));
% %plotting
figure
 imshow(finalimg)
The result is displayed in result.jpg. Please note that result.jpg corresponds to Picture4.jpg. It could be noticed that some information under the red box in Picture4.jpg is lost which is not desirable. I think it is probably related to mask = blueC > 120 in the code above. I was wondering if it is possbile to automate the process so that any image could be cropped as desired everytime a new file is opened. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

Best Answer

img = imread('gray4.jpg');
im = imclearborder(255-imclearborder(255-rgb2gray(img)));imshow(im);
hc = sum(im,2);
mask = hc >= 10000;
fr = find(mask, 1, 'first');
lr = find(mask, 1, 'last');
cr = im(fr:lr, :);
imshow(cr)
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