Area detection and measurement

Hi all,

I have a large dataset of images which consists of .AWG files of human arms, my goal is to be able to measure a red area of skin (allergy test) for each photo. The photos were taken at the same distance from the arm, although the arms aren't consistent in the left to right plane in the photo (some are fuirther from center than others, maybe an issue?). I was wondering if there was a way to automate this problem use a genral script that has been written as a starting point as I have never done image analysis before. I am currently working with ImageAnalyst's Blobdemo() script, but was wdonering if there would be abetter method as the photos are all in RGB, and the contrast of white skin to red would allow for edge detection to be much easier.

Thank you for your help!

[David K.]

I am definitely not as experienced as ImageAnalyst is, but very often one of the first steps when working with color is to convert to greyscale or black/white. If the red is actually consistently more red than any other part of the image, you could start by finding out if the red of each pixel is above a certain threshold that you specified. If the value is not consistent enough there are ways to use an adaptive threshold that changes based off of nearby pixels.

With the thereshold applied or even just using the R values in the conversion to greyscale, your image should be closer to the example setup in the demo.

Hope this helps

Answer 1

[Yogesh Khurana]

There are different ways by which you can detect edges which will help in this situation. You can convert the image to GrayScale using rgb2gray or convert to hsv image using rgb2hsv. Apply edge detection techniques according to your constraints after converting the image to grayscale or hsv.

I am providing you some links where you can explore more about this:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8267-edge-detection-of-color-images

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/75193-color-edge-detection-using-euclidean-distance-and-vector-angle

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/73741-how-to-identify-boundaries-of-shapes-in-an-image-using-the-change-in-color#comment_145951

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/411525-how-to-detect-edges-of-an-image-using-canny-edge-detection-technique-i-have-already-detected-edges

Hope this helps!