<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>When you don't have specific tools to do that (as proposed in the previous email), an easy and fast way to obtain the contour(s) of a mask image (denoted M) is the following:<br>Let D be the mask M dilated by one pixel. Then, the points on the contour are the pixel x where D(x)-M(x)=1.<br>It's not perfect but it's easy and it works everytime, whatever the programming language (ITK, Matlab, etc.).<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Vincent Garcia<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"robert tamburo" &lt;robert.tamburo@gmail.com&gt;<br><b>To: </b>"Quan" &lt;mrvillage@163.com&gt;<br><b>Cc: </b>"insight-users" &lt;insight-users@itk.org&gt;<br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, 21 May, 2011 5:49:20 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Insight-users] how to extract the contour in a binary image<br><br><a href="http://www.itk.org/Doxygen318/html/classitk_1_1BinaryContourImageFilter.html" target="_blank">http://www.itk.org/Doxygen318/html/classitk_1_1BinaryContourImageFilter.html</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/20 Quan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mrvillage@163.com" target="_blank">mrvillage@163.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>hello everyone:</div>
<div>i get a binary image ,the pixels==1&nbsp;reprensent the foreground and pixels==0 represent background.Now i want to get the contour of the different regions.and i dont wanna use edge detectors like "LOG" or "Sobel".can anybody give me some advice?in addition,it seems that itk::ExtractImageFilter cannot do this task.</div>

<div>thanks</div>
<div>Quan</div><font color="#888888"><br><br><span title="neteasefooter"><span></span></span></font><br>_____________________________________<br>
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