In this article we will see how we can remove the bordered label from the labelled image in mahotas. Border labels are those labels which are touching the border, we can create labelled image from normal image with the help of mahotas.label method.
For this we are going to use the fluorescent microscopy image from a nuclear segmentation benchmark. We can get the image with the help of command given below
mahotas.demos.nuclear_image()
Below is the nuclear_image
Labelled images are integer images where the values correspond to different regions. I.e., region 1 is all of the pixels which have value 1, region two is the pixels with value 2, and so on
In order to do this we will use mahotas.remove_bordering method
Syntax : mahotas.remove_bordering(labelled)
Argument : It takes labelled image object as argument
Return : It returns the labelled image without label at the borders
Example 1:
Python3
# importing required libraries import mahotas import numpy as np from pylab import imshow, show import os # loading nuclear image f = mahotas.demos.load( 'nuclear' ) # setting filter to the image f = f[:, :, 0 ] # setting gaussian filter f = mahotas.gaussian_filter(f, 4 ) # setting threshold value f = (f> f.mean()) # creating a labelled image labelled, n_nucleus = mahotas.label(f) # showing the labelled image print ( "Labelled Image" ) imshow(labelled) show() # removing border labels labelled = mahotas.labelled.remove_bordering(labelled) # showing the image print ( "No border Label" ) imshow(labelled) show() |
Output :
Example 2:
Python3
# importing required libraries import numpy as np import mahotas from pylab import imshow, show # loading image img = mahotas.imread( 'dog_image.png' ) # filtering the image img = img[:, :, 0 ] # setting gaussian filter gaussian = mahotas.gaussian_filter(img, 15 ) # setting threshold value gaussian = (gaussian > gaussian.mean()) # creating a labelled image labelled, n_nucleus = mahotas.label(gaussian) print ( "Labelled Image" ) # showing the gaussian filter imshow(labelled) show() # removing border labels labelled = mahotas.labelled.remove_bordering(labelled) # showing the image print ( "No border Label" ) imshow(labelled) show() |
Output :