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I need help writing a programme to count the adhesion area of algae (in pixels) on a polythene strip
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I have taken pictures of the polythene strips on a light-box on a hi res camera and need a programme to count what area is covered in algae and what area is polythene only. Would i be best changing the image to black and white or is there a way i can do it with colour?
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Image Analyst
on 27 Mar 2014
At some point you need to get it to a gray level image so you can then turn it into a binary image by thresholding. So you'll have "algae" and "non-algae" pixels defined as "true" and "false" in your binary image. I don't know what color the algae is or the polythene is. You can probably do some color segmentation or texture segmentation to discriminate between the two. See my File Exchange for color segmentation demos: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862
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Image Analyst
on 2 Apr 2014
Sounds like you've given up. The delta E code lets you pick whatever color you want. Pick a green area and a delta E and see what happens.
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