~bwareaopen(BW, P)
MATLAB: I need a function that acts like a function bwareaopen(BW, P) but the amount P to remove larger
~bwareaopen(bwp
Related Solutions
Do you mean like this:
clc; % Clear the command window.
close all; % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
clear; % Erase all existing variables. Or clearvars if you want.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
format long g;format compact;fontSize = 22;%--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% READ IN IMAGE
folder = pwd;baseFileName = 'Q4_4.png';% Get the full filename, with path prepended.
fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName);% Check if file exists.
if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % The file doesn't exist -- didn't find it there in that folder.
% Check the entire search path (other folders) for the file by stripping off the folder.
fullFileNameOnSearchPath = baseFileName; % No path this time.
if ~exist(fullFileNameOnSearchPath, 'file') % Still didn't find it. Alert user.
errorMessage = sprintf('Error: %s does not exist in the search path folders.', fullFileName); uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage)); return; endendgrayImage = imread(fullFileName);% Get the dimensions of the image.
% numberOfColorChannels should be = 1 for a gray scale image, and 3 for an RGB color image.
[rows, columns, numberOfColorChannels] = size(grayImage)if numberOfColorChannels > 1 % It's not really gray scale like we expected - it's color.
% Use weighted sum of ALL channels to create a gray scale image.
grayImage = rgb2gray(grayImage); % ALTERNATE METHOD: Convert it to gray scale by taking only the green channel,
% which in a typical snapshot will be the least noisy channel.
% grayImage = grayImage(:, :, 2); % Take green channel.
end% Display the image.
subplot(2, 3, 1);imshow(grayImage);axis('on', 'image');title('Original Grayscale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');impixelinfo;hFig = gcf;hFig.WindowState = 'maximized'; % May not work in earlier versions of MATLAB.
drawnow;%--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------% Binarize the image.
binaryImage = ~imbinarize(grayImage);% Get rid of particles less than 200 in area.
binaryImage = bwareaopen(binaryImage, 200);% Eliminate partial blobs - those touching the edge of the image.
binaryImage = imclearborder(binaryImage);subplot(2, 3, 2);imshow(binaryImage, []);axis('on', 'image');title('Mask Image', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');impixelinfo;drawnow;% Find blobs
props = regionprops(binaryImage, 'Centroid', 'Area');xy = vertcat(props.Centroid)allAreas = [props.Area];subplot(2, 3, 3);histogram(allAreas, 10);grid on;title('Histogram of Blob Areas', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');xlabel('Area', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');ylabel('Count', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');% Get blobs smaller than 2500
[labeledImage, numBlobs] = bwlabel(binaryImage);smallIndexes = find(allAreas < 2500);largeIndexes = find(allAreas >= 2500);% Extract the small blobs with ismember()
smallBlobs = ismember(labeledImage, smallIndexes);subplot(2, 3, 4);imshow(smallBlobs);title('Small Blobs', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');% Extract the large blobs with ismember()
largeBlobs = ismember(labeledImage, largeIndexes);subplot(2, 3, 5);imshow(largeBlobs);title('Large Blobs', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');
You have 2 connected blobs. The one on the left is 8 pixels big (area of 8 pixels). The blob on the right is 3 pixels. When you called bwareaopen, it got rid of blobs less than 4 pixels. Since the blob with an area of 3 is less than 4, it was removed. Does that explain it? It has nothing to do with connectivity here because all your blobs are 4-connected. Now if you had an extra pixel diagonally connected to the blob on the left, like this:
A = 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0Now there are 8 eight connected blobs, but 3 blobs if you consider them as 4 connected. The pixel at row 4 column 4 is 8-connected to the blob on the left, but not 4 connected. It would be removed with
bwareaopen(A, 4, 4)but not with
bwareaopen(A, 4, 8)because in the second case it's connected while in the first case it's not connected.
Best Answer