Re: Image Analysis: identifying objects with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg98682] Re: [mg98562] Image Analysis: identifying objects with Mathematica
- From: Matthias Odisio <matthias at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:14:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Gideon, GidiL wrote: > Hi All! > > I would appreciate any input on the following problem: > > After scanning my samples with TEM, I get images (JPEG or TIFF) which > contain many dimmers, e.g. gold nanoparticles connected via some > other molecule. > Approximately half of the popoulation is that of dimmers, while the > other half contains trimmers, monomers, etc. I would like to run some > statistics on the samples. > I read Theodore Gray's post in the Wolfram Blog about the new > capabilities of image processing in Mathematica 7.0.1 and I would like > to ask if it is possible to do the following in Mathematica: > > Pick out a square that contains the dimmers, define that square as a > new image, and then let Mathematica search for such an image within > the original image. Yes, it is possible. You can use ImageCorrelate; if the appearance of the dimmers varies a lot in the image, this approach may not be good. You can then revert to ImageFilter with a more robust template matching function. We could probably be more specific if we could see one of your images. Matthias Odisio Wolfram Research > > I know that Mathematica has a new function MorphologicalComponents > that is apparently the key to getting this done, but I don't really > understand how to use it. It is also supposed to return the > coordinates of the located images, but I don't know how to extract > this output from the function. > > Thanks, > > Gideon
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- Image Analysis: identifying objects with Mathematica 7.0
- From: GidiL <gidienator@gmail.com>
- Image Analysis: identifying objects with Mathematica 7.0