Re: Image and ROI Help [message #50950] |
Fri, 27 October 2006 07:28  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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Jimoid writes:
> My next stage is how to use the ROI data to select the region of the
> image. As I see it there are two possibilities:
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> (i) a graphical approach where I turn the ROI data into a polygon and
> use it mask the image, or
> (ii) a computaional approach where I take the image data values and use
> the ROI coordiante data to calculate the image ROI information I need.
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> My feeling is that the second approach would be better as it is more
> direct; the first approach uses an extra graphical step to arrive at
> the same result. What do others think?
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> My second question is can anyone suggest methods for the second
> (computational) approach? I have been thinking that I could create an
> array filled with zeros the same size as my image, and use the ROI data
> to create an area within the array filled with ones and then multiply
> the two arrays. I am sure there must be better methods however.
I think I would put the ROI into an IDLanROI object,
and then just about everything you wanted to do with
an ROI would be sitting there in front of you. -)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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