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Re: automate distance measure of uneven surface

Posted by Herbie on Feb 25, 2016; 6:15pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/automate-distance-measure-of-uneven-surface-tp5015719p5015720.html

Good day Dave,

if this

"hand drawing the surface with a line"

is what you want to avoid, did you try "Find Edges"?

However, drawing a border line is no "distance measure".
So what is it that you really need?

A bit clueless

Herbie

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Am 25.02.16 um 18:06 schrieb David A. Schneider:

> Greetings,
>
> I need to process a large image set of masks (like the one attached)
> which represent a tissue cross section (lower white region) and
> surrounding airspace (upper black region). I've written macros to get
> me this far but I don't know if there is already an existing
> automatic way to measure the distance of the surface.
>
> Note, as in this example image, that there are occasional white-black
> interfaces not to be included. These occur in the non-tissue space
> (in the image the single white blotch in upper right quadrant) and
> those holes in the deeper tissue space (one about mid-lower left
> side, another on low right side). All images are oriented in this way
> to start. I'm not concerned about not catching the bit of surface
> that is just below the left edge boundary.  If it will make for a
> much simpler solution, I could remove the bits of white-in-black and
> black-in-white not representing the surface to be measured. But as
> you can see, hand drawing the surface with a line for a hundred or
> more images is not feasible nor likely to be accurate.
>
> Is there a plugin or function already out there that I can use
> (preferably in a macro or batch process) to get this done?
>
> Thank you for your assistance,
>
> Dave
>
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