import itertools import math import numpy as np from scipy import ndimage as ndi from collections import OrderedDict from collections.abc import Iterable from ..exposure import histogram from .._shared.utils import check_nD, warn from ..transform import integral_image from ..util import dtype_limits from ..filters._multiotsu import (_get_multiotsu_thresh_indices_lut, _get_multiotsu_thresh_indices) from ._sparse import correlate_sparse, _validate_window_size __all__ = ['try_all_threshold', 'threshold_otsu', 'threshold_yen', 'threshold_isodata', 'threshold_li', 'threshold_local', 'threshold_minimum', 'threshold_mean', 'threshold_niblack', 'threshold_sauvola', 'threshold_triangle', 'apply_hysteresis_threshold', 'threshold_multiotsu'] def _try_all(image, methods=None, figsize=None, num_cols=2, verbose=True): """Returns a figure comparing the outputs of different methods. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray Input image. methods : dict, optional Names and associated functions. Functions must take and return an image. figsize : tuple, optional Figure size (in inches). num_cols : int, optional Number of columns. verbose : bool, optional Print function name for each method. Returns ------- fig, ax : tuple Matplotlib figure and axes. """ from matplotlib import pyplot as plt # Handle default value methods = methods or {} num_rows = math.ceil((len(methods) + 1.) / num_cols) fig, ax = plt.subplots(num_rows, num_cols, figsize=figsize, sharex=True, sharey=True) ax = ax.ravel() ax[0].imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray) ax[0].set_title('Original') i = 1 for name, func in methods.items(): ax[i].set_title(name) try: ax[i].imshow(func(image), cmap=plt.cm.gray) except Exception as e: ax[i].text(0.5, 0.5, "%s" % type(e).__name__, ha="center", va="center", transform=ax[i].transAxes) i += 1 if verbose: print(func.__orifunc__) for a in ax: a.axis('off') fig.tight_layout() return fig, ax def try_all_threshold(image, figsize=(8, 5), verbose=True): """Returns a figure comparing the outputs of different thresholding methods. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray Input image. figsize : tuple, optional Figure size (in inches). verbose : bool, optional Print function name for each method. Returns ------- fig, ax : tuple Matplotlib figure and axes. Notes ----- The following algorithms are used: * isodata * li * mean * minimum * otsu * triangle * yen Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import text >>> fig, ax = try_all_threshold(text(), figsize=(10, 6), verbose=False) """ def thresh(func): """ A wrapper function to return a thresholded image. """ def wrapper(im): return im > func(im) try: wrapper.__orifunc__ = func.__orifunc__ except AttributeError: wrapper.__orifunc__ = func.__module__ + '.' + func.__name__ return wrapper # Global algorithms. methods = OrderedDict({'Isodata': thresh(threshold_isodata), 'Li': thresh(threshold_li), 'Mean': thresh(threshold_mean), 'Minimum': thresh(threshold_minimum), 'Otsu': thresh(threshold_otsu), 'Triangle': thresh(threshold_triangle), 'Yen': thresh(threshold_yen)}) return _try_all(image, figsize=figsize, methods=methods, verbose=verbose) def threshold_local(image, block_size, method='gaussian', offset=0, mode='reflect', param=None, cval=0): """Compute a threshold mask image based on local pixel neighborhood. Also known as adaptive or dynamic thresholding. The threshold value is the weighted mean for the local neighborhood of a pixel subtracted by a constant. Alternatively the threshold can be determined dynamically by a given function, using the 'generic' method. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray Input image. block_size : int Odd size of pixel neighborhood which is used to calculate the threshold value (e.g. 3, 5, 7, ..., 21, ...). method : {'generic', 'gaussian', 'mean', 'median'}, optional Method used to determine adaptive threshold for local neighbourhood in weighted mean image. * 'generic': use custom function (see ``param`` parameter) * 'gaussian': apply gaussian filter (see ``param`` parameter for custom\ sigma value) * 'mean': apply arithmetic mean filter * 'median': apply median rank filter By default the 'gaussian' method is used. offset : float, optional Constant subtracted from weighted mean of neighborhood to calculate the local threshold value. Default offset is 0. mode : {'reflect', 'constant', 'nearest', 'mirror', 'wrap'}, optional The mode parameter determines how the array borders are handled, where cval is the value when mode is equal to 'constant'. Default is 'reflect'. param : {int, function}, optional Either specify sigma for 'gaussian' method or function object for 'generic' method. This functions takes the flat array of local neighbourhood as a single argument and returns the calculated threshold for the centre pixel. cval : float, optional Value to fill past edges of input if mode is 'constant'. Returns ------- threshold : (N, M) ndarray Threshold image. All pixels in the input image higher than the corresponding pixel in the threshold image are considered foreground. References ---------- .. [1] https://docs.opencv.org/modules/imgproc/doc/miscellaneous_transformations.html?highlight=threshold#adaptivethreshold Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera()[:50, :50] >>> binary_image1 = image > threshold_local(image, 15, 'mean') >>> func = lambda arr: arr.mean() >>> binary_image2 = image > threshold_local(image, 15, 'generic', ... param=func) """ if block_size % 2 == 0: raise ValueError("The kwarg ``block_size`` must be odd! Given " "``block_size`` {0} is even.".format(block_size)) check_nD(image, 2) thresh_image = np.zeros(image.shape, 'double') if method == 'generic': ndi.generic_filter(image, param, block_size, output=thresh_image, mode=mode, cval=cval) elif method == 'gaussian': if param is None: # automatically determine sigma which covers > 99% of distribution sigma = (block_size - 1) / 6.0 else: sigma = param ndi.gaussian_filter(image, sigma, output=thresh_image, mode=mode, cval=cval) elif method == 'mean': mask = 1. / block_size * np.ones((block_size,)) # separation of filters to speedup convolution ndi.convolve1d(image, mask, axis=0, output=thresh_image, mode=mode, cval=cval) ndi.convolve1d(thresh_image, mask, axis=1, output=thresh_image, mode=mode, cval=cval) elif method == 'median': ndi.median_filter(image, block_size, output=thresh_image, mode=mode, cval=cval) else: raise ValueError("Invalid method specified. Please use `generic`, " "`gaussian`, `mean`, or `median`.") return thresh_image - offset def _validate_image_histogram(image, hist, nbins=None): """Ensure that either image or hist were given, return valid histogram. If hist is given, image is ignored. Parameters ---------- image : array or None Grayscale image. hist : array, 2-tuple of array, or None Histogram, either a 1D counts array, or an array of counts together with an array of bin centers. nbins : int, optional The number of bins with which to compute the histogram, if `hist` is None. Returns ------- counts : 1D array of float Each element is the number of pixels falling in each intensity bin. bin_centers : 1D array Each element is the value corresponding to the center of each intensity bin. Raises ------ ValueError : if image and hist are both None """ if image is None and hist is None: raise Exception("Either image or hist must be provided.") if hist is not None: if isinstance(hist, (tuple, list)): counts, bin_centers = hist else: counts = hist bin_centers = np.arange(counts.size) else: counts, bin_centers = histogram( image.ravel(), nbins, source_range='image' ) return counts.astype(float), bin_centers def threshold_otsu(image=None, nbins=256, *, hist=None): """Return threshold value based on Otsu's method. Either image or hist must be provided. If hist is provided, the actual histogram of the image is ignored. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray, optional Grayscale input image. nbins : int, optional Number of bins used to calculate histogram. This value is ignored for integer arrays. hist : array, or 2-tuple of arrays, optional Histogram from which to determine the threshold, and optionally a corresponding array of bin center intensities. An alternative use of this function is to pass it only hist. Returns ------- threshold : float Upper threshold value. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. References ---------- .. [1] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otsu's_Method Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera() >>> thresh = threshold_otsu(image) >>> binary = image <= thresh Notes ----- The input image must be grayscale. """ if image is not None and image.ndim > 2 and image.shape[-1] in (3, 4): msg = "threshold_otsu is expected to work correctly only for " \ "grayscale images; image shape {0} looks like an RGB image" warn(msg.format(image.shape)) # Check if the image has more than one intensity value; if not, return that # value if image is not None: first_pixel = image.ravel()[0] if np.all(image == first_pixel): return first_pixel counts, bin_centers = _validate_image_histogram(image, hist, nbins) # class probabilities for all possible thresholds weight1 = np.cumsum(counts) weight2 = np.cumsum(counts[::-1])[::-1] # class means for all possible thresholds mean1 = np.cumsum(counts * bin_centers) / weight1 mean2 = (np.cumsum((counts * bin_centers)[::-1]) / weight2[::-1])[::-1] # Clip ends to align class 1 and class 2 variables: # The last value of ``weight1``/``mean1`` should pair with zero values in # ``weight2``/``mean2``, which do not exist. variance12 = weight1[:-1] * weight2[1:] * (mean1[:-1] - mean2[1:]) ** 2 idx = np.argmax(variance12) threshold = bin_centers[idx] return threshold def threshold_yen(image=None, nbins=256, *, hist=None): """Return threshold value based on Yen's method. Either image or hist must be provided. In case hist is given, the actual histogram of the image is ignored. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray, optional Input image. nbins : int, optional Number of bins used to calculate histogram. This value is ignored for integer arrays. hist : array, or 2-tuple of arrays, optional Histogram from which to determine the threshold, and optionally a corresponding array of bin center intensities. An alternative use of this function is to pass it only hist. Returns ------- threshold : float Upper threshold value. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. References ---------- .. [1] Yen J.C., Chang F.J., and Chang S. (1995) "A New Criterion for Automatic Multilevel Thresholding" IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 4(3): 370-378. :DOI:`10.1109/83.366472` .. [2] Sezgin M. and Sankur B. (2004) "Survey over Image Thresholding Techniques and Quantitative Performance Evaluation" Journal of Electronic Imaging, 13(1): 146-165, :DOI:`10.1117/1.1631315` http://www.busim.ee.boun.edu.tr/~sankur/SankurFolder/Threshold_survey.pdf .. [3] ImageJ AutoThresholder code, http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Auto_Threshold Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera() >>> thresh = threshold_yen(image) >>> binary = image <= thresh """ counts, bin_centers = _validate_image_histogram(image, hist, nbins) # On blank images (e.g. filled with 0) with int dtype, `histogram()` # returns ``bin_centers`` containing only one value. Speed up with it. if bin_centers.size == 1: return bin_centers[0] # Calculate probability mass function pmf = counts.astype(np.float32) / counts.sum() P1 = np.cumsum(pmf) # Cumulative normalized histogram P1_sq = np.cumsum(pmf ** 2) # Get cumsum calculated from end of squared array: P2_sq = np.cumsum(pmf[::-1] ** 2)[::-1] # P2_sq indexes is shifted +1. I assume, with P1[:-1] it's help avoid # '-inf' in crit. ImageJ Yen implementation replaces those values by zero. crit = np.log(((P1_sq[:-1] * P2_sq[1:]) ** -1) * (P1[:-1] * (1.0 - P1[:-1])) ** 2) return bin_centers[crit.argmax()] def threshold_isodata(image=None, nbins=256, return_all=False, *, hist=None): """Return threshold value(s) based on ISODATA method. Histogram-based threshold, known as Ridler-Calvard method or inter-means. Threshold values returned satisfy the following equality:: threshold = (image[image <= threshold].mean() + image[image > threshold].mean()) / 2.0 That is, returned thresholds are intensities that separate the image into two groups of pixels, where the threshold intensity is midway between the mean intensities of these groups. For integer images, the above equality holds to within one; for floating- point images, the equality holds to within the histogram bin-width. Either image or hist must be provided. In case hist is given, the actual histogram of the image is ignored. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray, optional Input image. nbins : int, optional Number of bins used to calculate histogram. This value is ignored for integer arrays. return_all : bool, optional If False (default), return only the lowest threshold that satisfies the above equality. If True, return all valid thresholds. hist : array, or 2-tuple of arrays, optional Histogram to determine the threshold from and a corresponding array of bin center intensities. Alternatively, only the histogram can be passed. Returns ------- threshold : float or int or array Threshold value(s). References ---------- .. [1] Ridler, TW & Calvard, S (1978), "Picture thresholding using an iterative selection method" IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 8: 630-632, :DOI:`10.1109/TSMC.1978.4310039` .. [2] Sezgin M. and Sankur B. (2004) "Survey over Image Thresholding Techniques and Quantitative Performance Evaluation" Journal of Electronic Imaging, 13(1): 146-165, http://www.busim.ee.boun.edu.tr/~sankur/SankurFolder/Threshold_survey.pdf :DOI:`10.1117/1.1631315` .. [3] ImageJ AutoThresholder code, http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Auto_Threshold Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import coins >>> image = coins() >>> thresh = threshold_isodata(image) >>> binary = image > thresh """ counts, bin_centers = _validate_image_histogram(image, hist, nbins) # image only contains one unique value if len(bin_centers) == 1: if return_all: return bin_centers else: return bin_centers[0] counts = counts.astype(np.float32) # csuml and csumh contain the count of pixels in that bin or lower, and # in all bins strictly higher than that bin, respectively csuml = np.cumsum(counts) csumh = csuml[-1] - csuml # intensity_sum contains the total pixel intensity from each bin intensity_sum = counts * bin_centers # l and h contain average value of all pixels in that bin or lower, and # in all bins strictly higher than that bin, respectively. # Note that since exp.histogram does not include empty bins at the low or # high end of the range, csuml and csumh are strictly > 0, except in the # last bin of csumh, which is zero by construction. # So no worries about division by zero in the following lines, except # for the last bin, but we can ignore that because no valid threshold # can be in the top bin. # To avoid the division by zero, we simply skip over the last element in # all future computation. csum_intensity = np.cumsum(intensity_sum) lower = csum_intensity[:-1] / csuml[:-1] higher = (csum_intensity[-1] - csum_intensity[:-1]) / csumh[:-1] # isodata finds threshold values that meet the criterion t = (l + m)/2 # where l is the mean of all pixels <= t and h is the mean of all pixels # > t, as calculated above. So we are looking for places where # (l + m) / 2 equals the intensity value for which those l and m figures # were calculated -- which is, of course, the histogram bin centers. # We only require this equality to be within the precision of the bin # width, of course. all_mean = (lower + higher) / 2.0 bin_width = bin_centers[1] - bin_centers[0] # Look only at thresholds that are below the actual all_mean value, # for consistency with the threshold being included in the lower pixel # group. Otherwise can get thresholds that are not actually fixed-points # of the isodata algorithm. For float images, this matters less, since # there really can't be any guarantees anymore anyway. distances = all_mean - bin_centers[:-1] thresholds = bin_centers[:-1][(distances >= 0) & (distances < bin_width)] if return_all: return thresholds else: return thresholds[0] # Computing a histogram using np.histogram on a uint8 image with bins=256 # doesn't work and results in aliasing problems. We use a fully specified set # of bins to ensure that each uint8 value false into its own bin. _DEFAULT_ENTROPY_BINS = tuple(np.arange(-0.5, 255.51, 1)) def _cross_entropy(image, threshold, bins=_DEFAULT_ENTROPY_BINS): """Compute cross-entropy between distributions above and below a threshold. Parameters ---------- image : array The input array of values. threshold : float The value dividing the foreground and background in ``image``. bins : int or array of float, optional The number of bins or the bin edges. (Any valid value to the ``bins`` argument of ``np.histogram`` will work here.) For an exact calculation, each unique value should have its own bin. The default value for bins ensures exact handling of uint8 images: ``bins=256`` results in aliasing problems due to bin width not being equal to 1. Returns ------- nu : float The cross-entropy target value as defined in [1]_. Notes ----- See Li and Lee, 1993 [1]_; this is the objective function ``threshold_li`` minimizes. This function can be improved but this implementation most closely matches equation 8 in [1]_ and equations 1-3 in [2]_. References ---------- .. [1] Li C.H. and Lee C.K. (1993) "Minimum Cross Entropy Thresholding" Pattern Recognition, 26(4): 617-625 :DOI:`10.1016/0031-3203(93)90115-D` .. [2] Li C.H. and Tam P.K.S. (1998) "An Iterative Algorithm for Minimum Cross Entropy Thresholding" Pattern Recognition Letters, 18(8): 771-776 :DOI:`10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00057-9` """ histogram, bin_edges = np.histogram(image, bins=bins, density=True) bin_centers = np.convolve(bin_edges, [0.5, 0.5], mode='valid') t = np.flatnonzero(bin_centers > threshold)[0] m0a = np.sum(histogram[:t]) # 0th moment, background m0b = np.sum(histogram[t:]) m1a = np.sum(histogram[:t] * bin_centers[:t]) # 1st moment, background m1b = np.sum(histogram[t:] * bin_centers[t:]) mua = m1a / m0a # mean value, background mub = m1b / m0b nu = -m1a * np.log(mua) - m1b * np.log(mub) return nu def threshold_li(image, *, tolerance=None, initial_guess=None, iter_callback=None): """Compute threshold value by Li's iterative Minimum Cross Entropy method. Parameters ---------- image : ndarray Input image. tolerance : float, optional Finish the computation when the change in the threshold in an iteration is less than this value. By default, this is half the smallest difference between intensity values in ``image``. initial_guess : float or Callable[[array[float]], float], optional Li's iterative method uses gradient descent to find the optimal threshold. If the image intensity histogram contains more than two modes (peaks), the gradient descent could get stuck in a local optimum. An initial guess for the iteration can help the algorithm find the globally-optimal threshold. A float value defines a specific start point, while a callable should take in an array of image intensities and return a float value. Example valid callables include ``numpy.mean`` (default), ``lambda arr: numpy.quantile(arr, 0.95)``, or even :func:`skimage.filters.threshold_otsu`. iter_callback : Callable[[float], Any], optional A function that will be called on the threshold at every iteration of the algorithm. Returns ------- threshold : float Upper threshold value. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. References ---------- .. [1] Li C.H. and Lee C.K. (1993) "Minimum Cross Entropy Thresholding" Pattern Recognition, 26(4): 617-625 :DOI:`10.1016/0031-3203(93)90115-D` .. [2] Li C.H. and Tam P.K.S. (1998) "An Iterative Algorithm for Minimum Cross Entropy Thresholding" Pattern Recognition Letters, 18(8): 771-776 :DOI:`10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00057-9` .. [3] Sezgin M. and Sankur B. (2004) "Survey over Image Thresholding Techniques and Quantitative Performance Evaluation" Journal of Electronic Imaging, 13(1): 146-165 :DOI:`10.1117/1.1631315` .. [4] ImageJ AutoThresholder code, http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Auto_Threshold Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera() >>> thresh = threshold_li(image) >>> binary = image > thresh """ # Remove nan: image = image[~np.isnan(image)] if image.size == 0: return np.nan # Make sure image has more than one value; otherwise, return that value # This works even for np.inf if np.all(image == image.flat[0]): return image.flat[0] # At this point, the image only contains np.inf, -np.inf, or valid numbers image = image[np.isfinite(image)] # if there are no finite values in the image, return 0. This is because # at this point we *know* that there are *both* inf and -inf values, # because inf == inf evaluates to True. We might as well separate them. if image.size == 0: return 0. # Li's algorithm requires positive image (because of log(mean)) image_min = np.min(image) image -= image_min tolerance = tolerance or np.min(np.diff(np.unique(image))) / 2 # Initial estimate for iteration. See "initial_guess" in the parameter list if initial_guess is None: t_next = np.mean(image) elif callable(initial_guess): t_next = initial_guess(image) elif np.isscalar(initial_guess): # convert to new, positive image range t_next = initial_guess - image_min image_max = np.max(image) + image_min if not 0 < t_next < np.max(image): msg = ('The initial guess for threshold_li must be within the ' 'range of the image. Got {} for image min {} and max {} ' .format(initial_guess, image_min, image_max)) raise ValueError(msg) else: raise TypeError('Incorrect type for `initial_guess`; should be ' 'a floating point value, or a function mapping an ' 'array to a floating point value.') # initial value for t_curr must be different from t_next by at # least the tolerance. Since the image is positive, we ensure this # by setting to a large-enough negative number t_curr = -2 * tolerance # Callback on initial iterations if iter_callback is not None: iter_callback(t_next + image_min) # Stop the iterations when the difference between the # new and old threshold values is less than the tolerance while abs(t_next - t_curr) > tolerance: t_curr = t_next foreground = (image > t_curr) mean_fore = np.mean(image[foreground]) mean_back = np.mean(image[~foreground]) t_next = ((mean_back - mean_fore) / (np.log(mean_back) - np.log(mean_fore))) if iter_callback is not None: iter_callback(t_next + image_min) threshold = t_next + image_min return threshold def threshold_minimum(image=None, nbins=256, max_iter=10000, *, hist=None): """Return threshold value based on minimum method. The histogram of the input ``image`` is computed if not provided and smoothed until there are only two maxima. Then the minimum in between is the threshold value. Either image or hist must be provided. In case hist is given, the actual histogram of the image is ignored. Parameters ---------- image : (M, N) ndarray, optional Input image. nbins : int, optional Number of bins used to calculate histogram. This value is ignored for integer arrays. max_iter : int, optional Maximum number of iterations to smooth the histogram. hist : array, or 2-tuple of arrays, optional Histogram to determine the threshold from and a corresponding array of bin center intensities. Alternatively, only the histogram can be passed. Returns ------- threshold : float Upper threshold value. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. Raises ------ RuntimeError If unable to find two local maxima in the histogram or if the smoothing takes more than 1e4 iterations. References ---------- .. [1] C. A. Glasbey, "An analysis of histogram-based thresholding algorithms," CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, vol. 55, pp. 532-537, 1993. .. [2] Prewitt, JMS & Mendelsohn, ML (1966), "The analysis of cell images", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 128: 1035-1053 :DOI:`10.1111/j.1749-6632.1965.tb11715.x` Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera() >>> thresh = threshold_minimum(image) >>> binary = image > thresh """ def find_local_maxima_idx(hist): # We can't use scipy.signal.argrelmax # as it fails on plateaus maximum_idxs = list() direction = 1 for i in range(hist.shape[0] - 1): if direction > 0: if hist[i + 1] < hist[i]: direction = -1 maximum_idxs.append(i) else: if hist[i + 1] > hist[i]: direction = 1 return maximum_idxs counts, bin_centers = _validate_image_histogram(image, hist, nbins) smooth_hist = counts.astype(np.float64, copy=False) for counter in range(max_iter): smooth_hist = ndi.uniform_filter1d(smooth_hist, 3) maximum_idxs = find_local_maxima_idx(smooth_hist) if len(maximum_idxs) < 3: break if len(maximum_idxs) != 2: raise RuntimeError('Unable to find two maxima in histogram') elif counter == max_iter - 1: raise RuntimeError('Maximum iteration reached for histogram' 'smoothing') # Find lowest point between the maxima threshold_idx = np.argmin(smooth_hist[maximum_idxs[0]:maximum_idxs[1] + 1]) return bin_centers[maximum_idxs[0] + threshold_idx] def threshold_mean(image): """Return threshold value based on the mean of grayscale values. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M[, ..., P]) ndarray Grayscale input image. Returns ------- threshold : float Upper threshold value. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. References ---------- .. [1] C. A. Glasbey, "An analysis of histogram-based thresholding algorithms," CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, vol. 55, pp. 532-537, 1993. :DOI:`10.1006/cgip.1993.1040` Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera() >>> thresh = threshold_mean(image) >>> binary = image > thresh """ return np.mean(image) def threshold_triangle(image, nbins=256): """Return threshold value based on the triangle algorithm. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M[, ..., P]) ndarray Grayscale input image. nbins : int, optional Number of bins used to calculate histogram. This value is ignored for integer arrays. Returns ------- threshold : float Upper threshold value. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. References ---------- .. [1] Zack, G. W., Rogers, W. E. and Latt, S. A., 1977, Automatic Measurement of Sister Chromatid Exchange Frequency, Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 25 (7), pp. 741-753 :DOI:`10.1177/25.7.70454` .. [2] ImageJ AutoThresholder code, http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Auto_Threshold Examples -------- >>> from skimage.data import camera >>> image = camera() >>> thresh = threshold_triangle(image) >>> binary = image > thresh """ # nbins is ignored for integer arrays # so, we recalculate the effective nbins. hist, bin_centers = histogram(image.ravel(), nbins, source_range='image') nbins = len(hist) # Find peak, lowest and highest gray levels. arg_peak_height = np.argmax(hist) peak_height = hist[arg_peak_height] arg_low_level, arg_high_level = np.where(hist > 0)[0][[0, -1]] # Flip is True if left tail is shorter. flip = arg_peak_height - arg_low_level < arg_high_level - arg_peak_height if flip: hist = hist[::-1] arg_low_level = nbins - arg_high_level - 1 arg_peak_height = nbins - arg_peak_height - 1 # If flip == True, arg_high_level becomes incorrect # but we don't need it anymore. del(arg_high_level) # Set up the coordinate system. width = arg_peak_height - arg_low_level x1 = np.arange(width) y1 = hist[x1 + arg_low_level] # Normalize. norm = np.sqrt(peak_height**2 + width**2) peak_height /= norm width /= norm # Maximize the length. # The ImageJ implementation includes an additional constant when calculating # the length, but here we omit it as it does not affect the location of the # minimum. length = peak_height * x1 - width * y1 arg_level = np.argmax(length) + arg_low_level if flip: arg_level = nbins - arg_level - 1 return bin_centers[arg_level] def _mean_std(image, w): """Return local mean and standard deviation of each pixel using a neighborhood defined by a rectangular window size ``w``. The algorithm uses integral images to speedup computation. This is used by :func:`threshold_niblack` and :func:`threshold_sauvola`. Parameters ---------- image : ndarray Input image. w : int, or iterable of int Window size specified as a single odd integer (3, 5, 7, …), or an iterable of length ``image.ndim`` containing only odd integers (e.g. ``(1, 5, 5)``). Returns ------- m : ndarray of float, same shape as ``image`` Local mean of the image. s : ndarray of float, same shape as ``image`` Local standard deviation of the image. References ---------- .. [1] F. Shafait, D. Keysers, and T. M. Breuel, "Efficient implementation of local adaptive thresholding techniques using integral images." in Document Recognition and Retrieval XV, (San Jose, USA), Jan. 2008. :DOI:`10.1117/12.767755` """ if not isinstance(w, Iterable): w = (w,) * image.ndim _validate_window_size(w) pad_width = tuple((k // 2 + 1, k // 2) for k in w) padded = np.pad(image.astype('float'), pad_width, mode='reflect') padded_sq = padded * padded integral = integral_image(padded) integral_sq = integral_image(padded_sq) kern = np.zeros(tuple(k + 1 for k in w)) for indices in itertools.product(*([[0, -1]] * image.ndim)): kern[indices] = (-1) ** (image.ndim % 2 != np.sum(indices) % 2) total_window_size = np.prod(w) sum_full = correlate_sparse(integral, kern, mode='valid') m = sum_full / total_window_size sum_sq_full = correlate_sparse(integral_sq, kern, mode='valid') g2 = sum_sq_full / total_window_size # Note: we use np.clip because g2 is not guaranteed to be greater than # m*m when floating point error is considered s = np.sqrt(np.clip(g2 - m * m, 0, None)) return m, s def threshold_niblack(image, window_size=15, k=0.2): """Applies Niblack local threshold to an array. A threshold T is calculated for every pixel in the image using the following formula:: T = m(x,y) - k * s(x,y) where m(x,y) and s(x,y) are the mean and standard deviation of pixel (x,y) neighborhood defined by a rectangular window with size w times w centered around the pixel. k is a configurable parameter that weights the effect of standard deviation. Parameters ---------- image : ndarray Input image. window_size : int, or iterable of int, optional Window size specified as a single odd integer (3, 5, 7, …), or an iterable of length ``image.ndim`` containing only odd integers (e.g. ``(1, 5, 5)``). k : float, optional Value of parameter k in threshold formula. Returns ------- threshold : (N, M) ndarray Threshold mask. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. Notes ----- This algorithm is originally designed for text recognition. The Bradley threshold is a particular case of the Niblack one, being equivalent to >>> from skimage import data >>> image = data.page() >>> q = 1 >>> threshold_image = threshold_niblack(image, k=0) * q for some value ``q``. By default, Bradley and Roth use ``q=1``. References ---------- .. [1] W. Niblack, An introduction to Digital Image Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1986. .. [2] D. Bradley and G. Roth, "Adaptive thresholding using Integral Image", Journal of Graphics Tools 12(2), pp. 13-21, 2007. :DOI:`10.1080/2151237X.2007.10129236` Examples -------- >>> from skimage import data >>> image = data.page() >>> threshold_image = threshold_niblack(image, window_size=7, k=0.1) """ m, s = _mean_std(image, window_size) return m - k * s def threshold_sauvola(image, window_size=15, k=0.2, r=None): """Applies Sauvola local threshold to an array. Sauvola is a modification of Niblack technique. In the original method a threshold T is calculated for every pixel in the image using the following formula:: T = m(x,y) * (1 + k * ((s(x,y) / R) - 1)) where m(x,y) and s(x,y) are the mean and standard deviation of pixel (x,y) neighborhood defined by a rectangular window with size w times w centered around the pixel. k is a configurable parameter that weights the effect of standard deviation. R is the maximum standard deviation of a greyscale image. Parameters ---------- image : ndarray Input image. window_size : int, or iterable of int, optional Window size specified as a single odd integer (3, 5, 7, …), or an iterable of length ``image.ndim`` containing only odd integers (e.g. ``(1, 5, 5)``). k : float, optional Value of the positive parameter k. r : float, optional Value of R, the dynamic range of standard deviation. If None, set to the half of the image dtype range. Returns ------- threshold : (N, M) ndarray Threshold mask. All pixels with an intensity higher than this value are assumed to be foreground. Notes ----- This algorithm is originally designed for text recognition. References ---------- .. [1] J. Sauvola and M. Pietikainen, "Adaptive document image binarization," Pattern Recognition 33(2), pp. 225-236, 2000. :DOI:`10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00055-2` Examples -------- >>> from skimage import data >>> image = data.page() >>> t_sauvola = threshold_sauvola(image, window_size=15, k=0.2) >>> binary_image = image > t_sauvola """ if r is None: imin, imax = dtype_limits(image, clip_negative=False) r = 0.5 * (imax - imin) m, s = _mean_std(image, window_size) return m * (1 + k * ((s / r) - 1)) def apply_hysteresis_threshold(image, low, high): """Apply hysteresis thresholding to ``image``. This algorithm finds regions where ``image`` is greater than ``high`` OR ``image`` is greater than ``low`` *and* that region is connected to a region greater than ``high``. Parameters ---------- image : array, shape (M,[ N, ..., P]) Grayscale input image. low : float, or array of same shape as ``image`` Lower threshold. high : float, or array of same shape as ``image`` Higher threshold. Returns ------- thresholded : array of bool, same shape as ``image`` Array in which ``True`` indicates the locations where ``image`` was above the hysteresis threshold. Examples -------- >>> image = np.array([1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2]) >>> apply_hysteresis_threshold(image, 1.5, 2.5).astype(int) array([0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1]) References ---------- .. [1] J. Canny. A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 1986; vol. 8, pp.679-698. :DOI:`10.1109/TPAMI.1986.4767851` """ low = np.clip(low, a_min=None, a_max=high) # ensure low always below high mask_low = image > low mask_high = image > high # Connected components of mask_low labels_low, num_labels = ndi.label(mask_low) # Check which connected components contain pixels from mask_high sums = ndi.sum(mask_high, labels_low, np.arange(num_labels + 1)) connected_to_high = sums > 0 thresholded = connected_to_high[labels_low] return thresholded def threshold_multiotsu(image, classes=3, nbins=256): r"""Generate `classes`-1 threshold values to divide gray levels in `image`. The threshold values are chosen to maximize the total sum of pairwise variances between the thresholded graylevel classes. See Notes and [1]_ for more details. Parameters ---------- image : (N, M) ndarray Grayscale input image. classes : int, optional Number of classes to be thresholded, i.e. the number of resulting regions. nbins : int, optional Number of bins used to calculate the histogram. This value is ignored for integer arrays. Returns ------- thresh : array Array containing the threshold values for the desired classes. Raises ------ ValueError If ``image`` contains less grayscale value then the desired number of classes. Notes ----- This implementation relies on a Cython function whose complexity is :math:`O\left(\frac{Ch^{C-1}}{(C-1)!}\right)`, where :math:`h` is the number of histogram bins and :math:`C` is the number of classes desired. The input image must be grayscale. References ---------- .. [1] Liao, P-S., Chen, T-S. and Chung, P-C., "A fast algorithm for multilevel thresholding", Journal of Information Science and Engineering 17 (5): 713-727, 2001. Available at: :DOI:`10.6688/JISE.2001.17.5.1` .. [2] Tosa, Y., "Multi-Otsu Threshold", a java plugin for ImageJ. Available at: Examples -------- >>> from skimage.color import label2rgb >>> from skimage import data >>> image = data.camera() >>> thresholds = threshold_multiotsu(image) >>> regions = np.digitize(image, bins=thresholds) >>> regions_colorized = label2rgb(regions) """ if len(image.shape) > 2 and image.shape[-1] in (3, 4): msg = ("threshold_multiotsu is expected to work correctly only for " "grayscale images; image shape {0} looks like an RGB image") warn(msg.format(image.shape)) # calculating the histogram and the probability of each gray level. prob, bin_centers = histogram(image.ravel(), nbins=nbins, source_range='image', normalize=True) prob = prob.astype('float32') nvalues = np.count_nonzero(prob) if nvalues < classes: msg = ("The input image has only {} different values. " "It can not be thresholded in {} classes") raise ValueError(msg.format(nvalues, classes)) elif nvalues == classes: thresh_idx = np.where(prob > 0)[0][:-1] else: # Get threshold indices try: thresh_idx = _get_multiotsu_thresh_indices_lut(prob, classes - 1) except MemoryError: # Don't use LUT if the number of bins is too large (if the # image is uint16 for example): in this case, the # allocated memory is too large. thresh_idx = _get_multiotsu_thresh_indices(prob, classes - 1) thresh = bin_centers[thresh_idx] return thresh