rmObjects: Object removal and re-indexation

In EBImage: Image processing and analysis toolbox for R

Description

The rmObjects functions deletes objects from an image by setting their pixel intensity values to 0. reenumerate re-enumerates all objects in an image from 0 (background) to the actual number of objects.

Usage

  rmObjects(x, index, reenumerate = TRUE)

  reenumerate(x)

Arguments

x	An Image object in Grayscale color mode or an array containing object masks. Object masks are sets of pixels with the same unique integer value.
index	A numeric vector (or a list of vectors if x contains multiple frames) containing the indexes of objects to remove in the frame.
reenumerate	Logical, should all the objects in the image be re-indexed afterwards (default).

Value

An Image object or an array, containing the new objects.

Author(s)

Oleg Sklyar, [e-mail], 2006-2007

See Also

bwlabel, watershed

Examples

  ## make objects
  x = readImage(system.file('images', 'shapes.png', package='EBImage'))
  x = x[110:512,1:130]
  y = bwlabel(x)
  
  ## number of objects found
  max(y)
  
  display(normalize(y), title='Objects')
  
  ## remove every second letter
  objects = list(
    seq.int(from = 2, to = max(y), by = 2),
    seq.int(from = 1, to = max(y), by = 2)
    )
  z = rmObjects(combine(y, y), objects)
  
  display(normalize(z), title='Object removal')
  
  ## the number of objects left in each image
  apply(z, 3, max)
  
  ## perform object removal without re-enumerating
  z = rmObjects(y, objects, reenumerate = FALSE)
  
  ## labels of objects left
  unique(as.vector(z))[-1L]
  
  ## re-index objects
  z = reenumerate(z)
  unique(as.vector(z))[-1L]

Example output

[1] 7
Only the first frame of the image stack is displayed.
To display all frames use 'all = TRUE'.
[1] 4 3
[1] 1 3 5 7
[1] 1 2 3 4

EBImage documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:41 p.m.