Hi Juan, You're right, I thought that the mask was a structuring element. Regarding the way a skeleton is computed (C4 with skimage or C8 with mahotas), there's different advantages/difficulties. With a C4 skeleton, the branched points of the skeleton seems to be a unique pixel. The difficulties come when the edges (skeleton-branched points) are being labelled (on a neighbourhood of 4 or 8 pixels). If the edges derive from a c8 skeleton (mahotas.thin), labelling the edges with a neighbourhood of 4 pixel is easy. However, the use of a C8 skeleton leads to branched "domain" which can be more than one pixel. I was wondering if it was possible to have a C8 skeleton with branched domain of only one pixel. This difficulty with C8 skeletons may be bypassed now. The aim would be to convert a skeleton into a graph : some results are visible in an ipython notebook, <http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/jeanpat/c261d254c139d11eb6dd> up to now the code works for some cases (some explanations) .. <http://dip4fish.blogspot.fr/2014/06/graph-again.html>.By the way is there a "regular" way way to solve that problem? Best regards Jean-Patrick Le jeudi 5 juin 2014 14:24:02 UTC+2, Jean-Patrick Pommier a écrit :
Hi, Is it possible to skeletonize a binary 2D shape such that its skeleton is defined on a neighbourhood of 8 pixels?
When skeletonizing with : *morphology.medial_axis()* , I tried two structuring elements (se8 or se4) as mask :
se8 = np.array([[True,True,True],[True,True,True],[True,True,True]]) se4 = np.array([[False,True,False],[True,True,True],[False,True,False]])
imK = makeLetterImage('K', 70) skel = *morphology.medial_axis*(imK,mask=se8) Ep_Bp, Bp_Bp, Bp, Ep = SkeletonDecomposition(skel)
The skeletons returned using se8 or se4 are very similar and look defined on a neighbourhood of 4 pixels (left). To me, this is a problem when trying to label the skeleton edges (right).
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Jean-Patrick
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