ITKHMinimaImage
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Group (Subgroup)¶
ITKImageProcessing (ITKImageProcessing)
Description¶
Suppress local minima whose depth below the baseline is less than h.
HMinimaImageFilter suppresses local minima that are less than h intensity units below the (local) background. This has the effect of smoothing over the "low" parts of the noise in the image without smoothing over large changes in intensity (region boundaries). See the HMaximaImageFilter to suppress the local maxima whose height is less than h intensity units above the (local) background.
If original image is subtracted from the output of HMinimaImageFilter , the signicant "valleys" in the image can be identified. This is what the HConcaveImageFilter provides.
This filter uses the GrayscaleGeodesicErodeImageFilter . It provides its own input as the "mask" input to the geodesic dilation. The "marker" image for the geodesic dilation is the input image plus the height parameter h.
Geodesic morphology and the H-Minima algorithm is described in Chapter 6 of Pierre Soille's book "Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications", Second Edition, Springer, 2003.
\see GrayscaleGeodesicDilateImageFilter , HMinimaImageFilter , HConvexImageFilter
\see MorphologyImageFilter , GrayscaleDilateImageFilter , GrayscaleFunctionDilateImageFilter , BinaryDilateImageFilter
Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Height | double | Set/Get the height that a local maximum must be above the local background (local contrast) in order to survive the processing. Local maxima below this value are replaced with an estimate of the local background. |
| FullyConnected | bool | Set/Get whether the connected components are defined strictly by face connectivity or by face+edge+vertex connectivity. Default is FullyConnectedOff. For objects that are 1 pixel wide, use FullyConnectedOn. |
Required Geometry¶
Image
Required Objects¶
| Kind | Default Name | Type | Component Dimensions | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell Attribute Array | None | N/A | (1) | Array containing input image |
Created Objects¶
| Kind | Default Name | Type | Component Dimensions | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell Attribute Array | None | (1) | Array containing filtered image |
References¶
[1] T.S. Yoo, M. J. Ackerman, W. E. Lorensen, W. Schroeder, V. Chalana, S. Aylward, D. Metaxas, R. Whitaker. Engineering and Algorithm Design for an Image Processing API: A Technical Report on ITK - The Insight Toolkit. In Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, J. Westwood, ed., IOS Press Amsterdam pp 586-592 (2002). [2] H. Johnson, M. McCormick, L. Ibanez. The ITK Software Guide: Design and Functionality. Fourth Edition. Published by Kitware Inc. 2015 ISBN: 9781-930934-28-3 [3] H. Johnson, M. McCormick, L. Ibanez. The ITK Software Guide: Introduction and Development Guidelines. Fourth Edition. Published by Kitware Inc. 2015 ISBN: 9781-930934-27-6
Example Pipelines¶
License & Copyright¶
Please see the description file distributed with this plugin.
DREAM3D Mailing Lists¶
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