Skeleton junction detection from a binary image based on a 3x3 region.
function call:
[out_img1]=vsg('Junctions’,in_img1);
Arguments:
in_img1
input image, 3 channel RGB, 1 channel greyscale or binary image, or
DICOM image.
Description:
The 3×3 masks are designed to detect 3×3 skeleton junction and replace
them by a single white pixel if the masks patterns occurs. Otherwise the
output pixel is set to black.
out_img1 - An image which has dimensions the same as the input image.
The output image displays the junctions of the white regions of the
input image.
Example:
img = imread('A.jpg');
h=figure;image(img);
[out_img1]=vsg('Threshold',img,100);
[out_img1]=vsg('FullThin',out_img1);
h=figure; image(uint8(out_img1));set(h,'Name','Full Thin);
[out_img1]=vsg('Junctions',out_img1);
h=figure; image(uint8(out_img1));set(h,'Name','Junctions');
Notes:
1. For DICOM images, the function operates on each slice separately.
2. For RGB images, the function operates on each channel separately.