MATLAB: How to find bifurcation and termination points in fingerprint

Question

I want to find total no. of termination and bifurcation points on an fingerprint image which is filtered properly.

Answer 1

Skeletonize your binary image with bwmorph('skel') then use bwmorph('endpoints') and bwmorph('branchpoints') to find the end points and branch points (bifurcations).