Image Analysis Tips of the Month

We recently began sharing valuable tips and workflows we have learned from our decades of developing and using image analysis software. We have since received several requests to continue such posts, as well as collect many of them into a single article. Great news -- we are going to do both!

My connections, as well as followers of MIPAR's company page, will continue to receive bi-weekly general image analysis tips -- we hope you enjoy!

Below, we have collected "the best of" our published tips so far. Happy image processing!

Globs and Strips

Tackle challenging shape segmentation with the following steps:

Threshold → Erode → Remove All Small Features → Remove Medium Eccentric Features → Dilate

Want to run this in two mouse clicks? Download the Recipe file now at: https://buff.ly/2lySn47

Grain Contrast Segmentation

Tackle challenging grain boundary segmentation using grain contrast and weak boundary markings. Start with an adaptive threshold to detect subtle contrast boundaries. Reject small artifacts, “connect the dots” with a watershed separation, then clean the boundaries to create clean, 1-pixel thick grain separations!

Want to run this in two mouse clicks? Download the Recipe file now at: https://buff.ly/2lSf0jK

Bi-modal Segmentation Problems

Tackle challenging bi-modal segmentation problems by targeting large and small features  separately, then combine the results at the end. Coarse adaptive thresholding for the large features, fine thresholding for the small -- it’s the best of both words!