Moin moin,
I'm using the
find_boundaries function for separating labeled regions (separated by
the watershed). Afterward I set the as True returned pixels to 0.
This works quit well but since my objects (labeled regions) can be
small (couple pixels) and seldom stick together I would like to limit
the find_boundaries to connected regions.
Is there a easy way to
only find the boundaries not connected to 0. Or tell the watershed
function to leave a space between separate objects?
Example:
import numpy as np
from scipy import ndimage as nd
from skimage.segmentation.boundaries import find_boundaries
a = np.zeros((15,15))
a[4:9,4:9]=1
a[6:10,7:12]=2
a[1:3,1:3]=3
print "a"
print a.astype(int)
a[find_boundaries(a)]=0
print a.astype(int)
Output:
[[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]]
After find_boundaries:
[[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]]
As you can see, the region 3 is almost gone.
Thanks
Siggi