Image illumination correction of arterial contour

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I have a code which which I am a bit confused on how to optimize in order to make it work for an image http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2jdx6g&s=7 since I am not able to modify the function imopen to remove the background illumination in order to obtain clear picture of the coronary vessels. Any suggestion?

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 26 Feb 2013
That is not what imopen is supposed to do. If anything it would be imclose() which does a dilation (smear bright stuff over the dark vessels) followed by an erosion (to return enlarged bright things to their original size). But I'd look at the literature to see what people are doing successfully with angiograms rather than spend time implementing something that ends up being really primitive and ineffective. http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contentsmedical.html#Medical%20Applications,%20CAT,%20MRI,%20Ultrasound,%20Heart%20Models,%20Brain%20Models
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mona
mona on 27 Feb 2013
Edited: Image Analyst on 27 Feb 2013
Yes, I do agree with you on this context. Although I don't understand what you assumed related to "background correct" but here's a simple case scenario of what I intend.
I just need the vessel to be darkened enough so that it is the most prominent feature of the image and for that purpose, the patches in the background should be suppressed as much as possible. Therefore, in a very simple coding,
I =double(rgb2gray(my image));
se = strel('disk',500);
g2 = imclose(I,se);
g2=mat2gray(g2);
I2 = I - g2;
figure(), imshow(I2,[])
which ofcourse doesn't work but atleast portrays the idea.
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 27 Feb 2013
You didn't do what I said. Try this:
grayImage = imread(fullFileName);
% Get the dimensions of the image.
% numberOfColorBands should be = 1.
[rows columns numberOfColorBands] = size(grayImage);
if numberOfColorBands > 1
grayImage = rgb2gray(grayImage);
end
% Display the original gray scale image.
subplot(2, 2, 1);
imshow(grayImage, []);
title('Original Grayscale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);
% Give a name to the title bar.
set(gcf,'name','Demo by ImageAnalyst','numbertitle','off')
% Close the image
se = strel('disk', 21);
closedImage = imclose(grayImage, se);
subplot(2, 2, 2);
imshow(closedImage, []);
title('Closed Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Subtract to get the vessels alone.
vesselImage = log(1+double(closedImage)) - log(1+double(grayImage));
subplot(2, 2, 3);
imshow(vesselImage, []);
title('Subtracted Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
I think the output looks pretty good. If you don't want the vessels to be white (which is normal for "foreground" objects, especially if you want to use regionprops()), then you can just reverse the subtraction:
vesselImage = log(1+double(grayImage)) - log(1+double(closedImage));

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