Hi there, I am doing some script to process some Greyscale image to find out the "Void" and calculate the percentage of "Void" compared with the whole area. Attached is the partial of the image. From the image, you can see underneath it has a lot of bubbles, we called them "void". I was initially using IMAQ threshold by selecting a range of Pixels which it is defined as "Void" and use IMAQ histogram to calculate the void percentage. But the way I use, choosing a "Range of Pixels", are not really working well. Because some of the Void Pixels are so close or similar to non-Void area. It is either overlapped too much of non-Void area or covered too less of Void area. I am literally new to VDM. I wonder is there any good feature can help with my image processing? Thanks and looking forward on the response. Regards, VZ

@chngveez wrote: Hi Andrey, Thanks again for your detail explanation. It is really really helpful! Please allow me just 1 more question only here and I hope I won't buzz you anymore. Before I raised my issue in this Community Forum, I was actually trying something like you mention, ROI-based thresholding. However, I am not sure how to apply different rules as you mentioned below. Could you please explain how does it work? It is quite simple, something like that: Can be easily propagated to three or more nested ROIs. If you have many, then think about DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself) and do it with for-loops instead of copy paste of the same code pieces.

@chngveez wrote: Thanks for the response! Unfortunately, this is the image captured from a X-ray machine. Well, if you have an X-ray image, the usual Signal to Noise Ratio is typically low. To improve the SNR, I would recommend acquiring multiple images and averaging them together using IMAQ Compute Average Image. This is a common approach. For image processing point of view, modern machine learning methods are very applicable nowadays, but they require a large number of pre-segmented images to train the model. Below, I'll describe a more or less "classical" approach. You shared a PNG file with an RGB image, but in fact, this is a grayscale image. Typically, X-ray images are 16-bit, and I would recommend keeping them as 16-bit to utilize the full dynamic range. For now, I will extract the intensity plane to convert the RGB image to an 8-bit grayscale image: Now it's time to remove the annoying black lines, otherwise you will get holes and stripes in the thresholded image: Here is a pretty simple trick — because your stripes are strictly horizontal and vertical, you can apply a linear (single line) Median Filter twice horizontally and vertically, something like this: I will use 19 for both dimensions. Now, your image looks like this (this action will remove some very small particles, and I’m not sure if you need them. In any case, they will be processed separately later): However, you still have vertical shadows. Since they are strictly vertical, you can compute the linear average horizontally along X-Axis and then apply Flat Field Correction using this as a bright image. Something like that: This will give you this image, which is suitable for Flat Field Correction: Then you can use this image in IMAQ Flat Field Correction (keeping the dark image disconnected). The corrected image will look like this: And with such image you can proceed with thresholding. The single 'fixed value' threshold will not work well, so you will need to use local thresholding instead. Assuming you need to segment both large and small voids, thresholding can be performed twice: once for each. For small voids, you can use the original (non-median filtered) image, because after median filtering, some small voids may disappear along with the black lines. Both combined together with IMAQ Or. To get better contours, you might need some morphological post-processing: With a simple trick, you can turn these into IMAQ overlay: Now, put everything together: And the result: For experiments, I would like to recommend using the NI Vision Assistant, which is delivered together with the Vision Development Module. Additionally, to get a deeper understanding of image processing, I suggest reading the book 'Digital Image Processing' written by Rafael Gonzalez and Richard Woods. The code in the attachment (has been downgraded to LV2018). Feel free to use it as a starting point (it is just a quick and dirty "breakfast exercise" some voids are not or only partially detected, and there is still a lot of work and "fine tuning" ahead to make it stable for every image you have).

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Hi Andrey,

Sorry for the late and thank you so much!

I did learned a lot from these. And, it is really helpful.

So far I got what I need.

Best regards.

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