ImageDataFilters.erode

ImageDataFilters.erode(

kernel_size: int | VectorLike[int] = (3, 3, 3),

scalars: str | None = None,

*,

binary: bool | VectorLike[float] | None = None,

progress_bar: bool = False,

)

Morphologically erode grayscale or binary data.

This filter may be used to erode grayscale images with continuous data, binary images with a single background and foreground value, or multi-label images.

For binary inputs with two unique values, this filter uses vtkImageDilateErode3D by default to perform fast binary erosion over an ellipsoidal neighborhood. Otherwise, the slower class vtkImageContinuousErode3D is used to perform generalized grayscale erosion by replacing each pixel with the minimum over an ellipsoidal neighborhood.

Optionally, the binary keyword may be used to explicitly control the behavior of the filter.

Added in version 0.47.

Parameters:

kernel_sizeint | VectorLike[int], default: (3, 3, 3)

Determines the size of the kernel along the xyz-axes. Only non-singleton dimensions are eroded, for example, a kernel size of (3, 3, 1) and (3, 3, 3) produce the same result for 2D images.

scalarsstr, optional

Name of scalars to process. Defaults to currently active scalars.

binarybool | VectorLike[float], optional

Control if binary erosion or continuous erosion is used.

If set, vtkImageDilateErode3D is used to strictly erode with two values. Set this to True to erode the maximum value in scalars with its minimum value, or set it to two values [background_value, foreground_value] to erode foreground_value with background_value explicitly.

Set this to False to use vtkImageContinuousErode3D to perform continuous erosion.

By default, binary is True if the input has two unique values, and False otherwise.

Note

• If the input is a binary mask, setting binary=True produces the same output as binary=False, but the filter is much more performant.

• Setting binary=[background_value, foreground_value] is useful to isolate the erosion to two values, for example, for multi-label segmentation masks.

progress_barbool, default: False

Display a progress bar to indicate progress.

Returns:

pyvista.ImageData

Dataset that has been eroded.

Notes

This filter only supports point data. For inputs with cell data, consider re-meshing the cell data as point data with cells_to_points() or resampling the cell data to point data with cell_data_to_point_data().

Examples

Download Python source code | Download Jupyter notebook

Create a toy example with two non-zero grayscale foreground regions using pad_image().

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> # Create an initial background point
>>> im = pv.ImageData(dimensions=(1, 1, 1))
>>> im['data'] = [0]
>>> # Add a foreground region
>>> im = im.pad_image(pad_value=255, pad_size=(4, 3), dimensionality=2)
>>> # Add a second foreground region
>>> im = im.pad_image(pad_value=128, pad_size=(2, 0, 1, 0))
>>> # Add background values to two sides
>>> im = im.pad_image(pad_value=0, pad_size=(1, 0))

Define a custom plotter to plot pixels as cells.

>>> def image_plotter(image):
...     pl = pv.Plotter()
...     pl.add_mesh(
...         image.points_to_cells(),
...         cmap='grey',
...         clim=[0, 255],
...         show_scalar_bar=False,
...         show_edges=True,
...         lighting=False,
...         line_width=3,
...     )
...     pl.camera_position = 'xy'
...     pl.camera.tight()
...     pl.enable_anti_aliasing()
...     return pl

Show the image.

>>> image_plotter(im).show()

Erode it with default settings. Observe that both foreground values are eroded.

>>> eroded = im.erode()
>>> image_plotter(eroded).show()

Use a larger kernel size.

>>> eroded = im.erode(kernel_size=5)
>>> image_plotter(eroded).show()

Use an asymmetric kernel.

>>> eroded = im.erode(kernel_size=(2, 4, 1))
>>> image_plotter(eroded).show()

Use binary erosion. By default, the max value (255 in this example) is eroded with the min value (0 in this example). All other values are unaffected.

>>> eroded = im.erode(binary=True)
>>> image_plotter(eroded).show()

Equivalently, set the binary values for the erosion explicitly.

>>> eroded = im.erode(binary=[0, 255])
>>> image_plotter(eroded).show()

Use binary erosion with the other foreground value instead.

>>> eroded = im.erode(binary=[0, 128])
>>> image_plotter(eroded).show()

See Also

dilate, open, close