How to remove spurious edge in skeleton line

Above image is the skeleton image but come with spurious edge (red circle).

Now, i have difficulty in removing that spurious edge

And its better to have the smooth line like image below (V-shape)

Does anyone have any tips of how to go about this problem?

Thanks in advance

[KSSV]

You can remove those lines by using y-coordinate values right?

[fatiha Nurul]

can you share me the code?

Answer 1

[Abhishek Kolla]

Start from the endpoint and start removing pixels whose which are closer than nearest branchpoint . The following link can be referred Remove the spurious edge of skeleton - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)