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Fast Morphology

A collection of morphological filters for grayscale images (8-bits) optimised for speed.

Description

This plugin provides facilities for morphological filtering of grayscale images. The plugin supports basic operations such as dilation, erosion, opening, and closing, as well as combination of them such as top-hat, morphological gradient or Laplacian.

Some utilities such as chamfer distance maps or image border padding are also included for convenience.

Important notice: this package is now integrated into the “morphological segmentation” plugin.

Morphological Filters

The main function of this plugin is “Morphological Filters”. It implements fast versions of erosion, dilation, opening and closing with various structuring elements: square, octagon, lines (horizontal, vertical or diagonal). The size of structuring elements is given in diameter (it is possible to use squares with even side length).

Original Blob image (inverting LUT)

Erosion of Blob image (inverting LUT) Dilation of Blob image (inverting LUT) Opening of Blob image (inverting LUT) Closing of Blob image (inverting LUT)

Gradient of Blob image (inverting LUT) Laplacian of Blob image (inverting LUT)

The implementation makes use of structuring element decomposition, and of local histograms. Computation times below the second are obtained for operations on 2000×3000 images using 100×100 square.

Geodesic reconstruction

Geodesic reconstruction is a powerful algorithm that can be used to reconstruct complex particles from a marker image. An example of reconstruction by dilation is shown below. Several grains are manually selected, and a binary image of markers is created. This marker image is used as input of geodesic reconstruction by dilation, using the original image as mask. The particles identified by the markers are reconstructed, while the other one are removed.

A grain image with a selection of markers Binary image obtained by transforming markers into image Grayscale geodesic reconstruction by dilation of the selected grains

Geodesic reconstruction algorithms can also be used for removing particules touching image borders, or filling holes. Corresponding plugins are also included into the package for convenience.

Minima and maxima detection

Starting from version 1.4, the plugin provides detection of regional minima and maxima, as well as detection of extended minima and maxima. Such filters are particularly useful for helping a segmentation process. A function for imposing minima or maxima on a grayscale image is also provided.

The images below show an example of regional maxima detection (middle image) on a filtered grain image, and the result of extended minima detection with a dynamic of 10 (right).

Filtered image of grains Result of regional maxima superimposed on original image Result of extended maxima superimposed on original image

Regional minima and maxima use a fast algorithm based on flood-filling like algorithm. Extended minima and maxima make use of geodesic reconstruction by dilation or erosion. The latter algorithm is implemented using iteration of forward-bacward updates until idempotence.

Utilities

Extend Image Borders

In order to manage the problem of image borders, an “Extend Image Border” plugin is provided. It creates a new image bigger than the original by mirroring, replicating, or repeating the input image.

Use Mirror borders Use Periodic borders Use Replicated borders Use Constant Value Border

Distance Map

A “Chamfer Distance Map”, similar to distance map, is also provided. It provides more choices in the distance approximations, and makes it possible to choose the output type (8-bits, 16-bits, 32-bits).

Distance map computed on a leaf

Instructions

The plugin can be obtained from here:

Fast_Morphology.jar

Simply copy the file into the plugin directory, and click on menu “Help→Refresh Plugins”. All functions should be available in menu “Plugins→Fast Morphology”

See Also

History

* 2014.07.16 Update to version 1.5 added support for 3D morphological filters and regions minima/maxima, added support for morphological filtering of floating point images
* 2013-10-16 Update to version 1.4 add geodesic reconstruction by erosion, regional minima/maxima, extended minima/maxima, imposition of minima/maxima. Most plugins are now based on PlugInFilter (making it possible to have preview). Also fix some bugs.
* 2013-06-10 Update to version 1.3 (add geodesic reconstruction plugin, add chamfer distance maps with 5x5 neighborhood, morphological filters now keep spatial calibration of images, update package arborescence)
* 2012-11-07 Update to version 1.2 (inner and outer gradients, morphological laplacian, fix bug in Shape list, use size in radius)
* 2012-08-29 first release, by David Legland
plugin/morphology/fast_morphological_filters/start.txt · Last modified: 2019/04/12 13:13 by 127.0.0.1

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