How to smooth an edge. I need you help very urgent

i have some edge not necessary in the principal edge, how to eliminate without modifing the principal edge. You see the outward-pointing boundary i like to delete some boundary and have a continious edge. URL of image is https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/81412928/1/Sample%20Album?h=8d9ba2

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/29922-why-your-question-is-not-urgent-or-an-emergency

[Walter Roberson]

Duplicate is at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/40233-how-to-smooth-an-edge-i-have-some-edge-not-necessary-in-the-principal-edge-how-to-eliminate-withou

Answer 1

[Anton Semechko]

If you have IPT see the documentation for 'bwmorph' function. Amongst other things it allows you to remove spurious details of the skeleton/contour (see 'spur' option).

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

You say that this must be done "without modifying the principal edge". That implies that you do not want to smooth the principal edge at all, and that you want to preserve the little jags that it has such as

____/\____

This implies that the only thing you want to remove are the little "feathers" such as

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The "feathers" in your image are not long and there are not very many of them. Why bother to remove them, and how could removing them possibly be "urgent" ??