Hi Maringa,
can you post the binary input image to some server? (if it is too large,
don't scale it, crop it).
There are many ways to create the binary input from your color image.
Without seeing the binary image and trying for myself, I can't determine
the cause of the problem.
Michael
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On Wed, July 8, 2009 09:29, maringa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted a question a couple of weeks ago, about how to detect and count
> the
> attachmentpoints
> of a soma (where the neurites attach to the soma) I got the advise to
> skeletonize two images, and
> dilate or erode one of them with 1px and then subtract them from
> eachother.
> This just generates a lot of dots. I skeletonize, then set "count" in
> Binary
> Options to 6 and erode. Which should leave only the crossings. I also
> combined this by dilating with 'count=1' and 'iterations' a bit more than
> the line thickness.
> Then run 'Find Maxima' to get single points or count the patches (former
> crossings).
>
> However, the result is this:
>
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7715/neurph4.jpg
> just a lot of small dots...
>
> Does anyone have another sugestion? It's kind of annoying to be stuck whit
> this simple (?) problem...
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>