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How to Remove EBImage objects that have holes?

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atbest09 • 0

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Hi all,

Does any one know how to remove objects that have holes using EBImage? For example, I converted the nuclei.tif file into a mask file using the follow code. Now how can I get rid of the nuclei with holes? Thanks.

x = readImage(system.file(file.path("images","nuclei.tif"), package="EBImage"), all = FALSE)
y=thresh(x, w = 15, h = 15, offset = 0.1)
objects = bwlabel(y)
display(objects)

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 6.7 years ago by Wolfgang Huber ★ 13k • written 6.7 years ago by atbest09 • 0

score 1 · Answer 1 · 2018-04-10

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Wolfgang Huber ★ 13k

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There are probably better ways, but how about this:

library("EBImage")

x = readImage(system.file(file.path("images", "nuclei.tif"), package = "EBImage"), all = FALSE)
y = thresh(x, w = 15, h = 15, offset = 0.1)
yf = fillHull(y)

objects = bwlabel(yf)
owh = unique(objects[ y != fillHull(y) ])
objects[ objects %in% owh ] = 0
    
display(tile(combine(objects, bwlabel(y)), nx = 2))

ADD COMMENT • link 6.7 years ago Wolfgang Huber ★ 13k

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Thank you Wolfgang for providing a solution to the problem. This is probably the way to go. Note that there is a dedicated function rmObjects to remove objects from images which is the preferred approach for performance reasons. It also provides an easy way to re-label objects such that the maximum index corresponds to the number of objects in the image. Consider the following modified code which additionally reuses the intermediate result yf = fillHull(y) when subsetting objects.

library("EBImage")

x = readImage(system.file(file.path("images", "nuclei.tif"), package = "EBImage"), all = FALSE)
y = thresh(x, w = 15, h = 15, offset = 0.1)
yf = fillHull(y)

objects = bwlabel(yf)
owh = unique(objects[ y != yf ])

objects = rmObjects(objects, owh, reenumerate = FALSE)

display(tile(combine(objects, bwlabel(y)), nx = 2))

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