Convert an image pixel coordinate to physical coordinate

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Dear All,
I have a 2D array over the range xmin<x<xmax and ymin<y<ymax which contains the color intensity of each point. It looks like a deformed donut. I needed to find the inner and outer boundary of the donut. In order to achieve this goal, I used image processing and found the boundaries by bwboundaries function. Now I have the boundaries. The boundaries are in rows and columns coordinate. I want to convert them back into physical x,y coordinates. How can I do it?
Thanks,
Ahmad

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 14 Oct 2012
Edited: Image Analyst on 14 Oct 2012
Yes.
% Get the image size.
[rows columns numberOfColorChannels] = size(imageArray);
% Create the spatial calibration factors.
realWorldUnitsPerPixel_x = (xmax - xmin) / columns;
realWorldUnitsPerPixel_y = (ymax - ymin) / rows;
% Now let's say you had some pixel coordinate (column, row):
realWorldX = xmin + realWorldUnitsPerPixel_x * column;
realWorldY = ymin + realWorldUnitsPerPixel_y * row;
% Now realWorldX and realWorldY are in terms of real world units.

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Matt J
Matt J on 14 Oct 2012
Edited: Matt J on 14 Oct 2012
You need to know the coordinates row0,col0 of the physical origin and the pixel sizes. With this, you do
physicalCoords = ([row,col]-[row0,col0]).*pixelsizes

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