9.34. ITK Grayscale Fillhole Image Filter

Remove local minima not connected to the boundary of the image.

Group (Subgroup)

ITKMathematicalMorphology (MathematicalMorphology)

Description

GrayscaleFillholeImageFilter fills holes in a grayscale image. Holes are local minima in the grayscale topography that are not connected to boundaries of the image. Gray level values adjacent to a hole are extrapolated across the hole.

This filter is used to smooth over local minima without affecting the values of local maxima. If you take the difference between the output of this filter and the original image (and perhaps threshold the difference above a small value), you’ll obtain a map of the local minima.

This filter uses the ReconstructionByErosionImageFilter . It provides its own input as the “mask” input to the geodesic erosion. The “marker” image for the geodesic erosion is constructed such that boundary pixels match the boundary pixels of the input image and the interior pixels are set to the maximum pixel value in the input image.

Geodesic morphology and the Fillhole algorithm is described in Chapter 6 of Pierre Soille’s book “Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications”, Second Edition, Springer, 2003.* ReconstructionByErosionImageFilter

  • MorphologyImageFilter , GrayscaleErodeImageFilter , GrayscaleFunctionErodeImageFilter , BinaryErodeImageFilter

Input Parameter(s)

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Fully Connected

Bool

Set/Get whether the connected components are defined strictly by face connectivity or by face+edge+vertex connectivity. Default is FullyConnectedOff. For objects that are 1 pixel wide, use FullyConnectedOn.

Input Cell Data

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Image Geometry

Geometry Selection

Image

Select the Image Geometry Group from the DataStructure.

Input Cell Data

Array Selection

Allowed Types: int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64, uint64, float32, float64

The image data that will be processed by this filter.

Output Cell Data

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Output Cell Data

DataObjectName

The result of the processing will be stored in this Data Array inside the same group as the input data.

Example Pipelines

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