measuring the longest thread of a skeleton

[Eyal Saiet]

Thanks I will look into the network approach.
I guess I was naive to assume there is a common algorithm, built in
scikit-image to measure the length of the skeleton.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Pratap Vardhan <pratapgr8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My first thought was what Juan suggested and seemed logical to do that.
>
> As an alternative, you could also (this may be an overfill and could be
> slower than network approach) try.
>
> 1. From every endpoints of skeleton compute the distance transform (using
> flood-fill or neighbourhood methods).
> 2. Now the maximum distance for above all distances will give you
> the longest path in skeleton.
>
> This way you can have the trace path of the longest thread in skeleton in
> image form itself.
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 8:52:05 AM UTC+5:30, Arctic_python
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Anyone has suggestions for an algorithm to measure the length of a
>> skeleton line/thread(e.g
>> http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_skeleton.html)?
>> The context- I skeletonize a shape to infer its length.
>> Thanks
>>
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