Thread Subject: How to get of some objects in an image?

hi everyone!

I have an black-and-white image (strictly black-and-white)
and i would like to get rid of some white dots. they are
big enough that I cannot treat them as noise. I thought
about maybe doing something with the pixels. my background
is black and major objects are white. I just would like to
remove these distracting white dots.

Could anyone tell me how to do that?

Thanks!

Hi Kevin,
Try imopen if you have Image Processing Toolbox.

Volkan

Yes imopen may enable to remove the dots, but in turn it will introduce unwanted distortion in the other objects as well. The best thing is you just identify the size of the object and remove all those objects which are less than the specified size. You can visit the following link in Mathwork blog on removing noises
http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2007/12/07/cleaning-up-scanned-text/

"Kevin Lan" <kev_dxd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<fmjnsq$en4$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> hi everyone!
>
> I have an black-and-white image (strictly black-and-
white)
> and i would like to get rid of some white dots. they are
> big enough that I cannot treat them as noise. I thought
> about maybe doing something with the pixels. my
background
> is black and major objects are white. I just would like
to
> remove these distracting white dots.
>
> Could anyone tell me how to do that?
>
> Thanks!

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HTH
Vihang