Watershed Segmentation

This function is based on code contributed by Suxing Liu, Arkansas State University. For more information see https://github.com/lsx1980/Leaf_count. This function uses the watershed algorithm to detect boundary of objects. Needs a mask file which specifies area which is object is white, and background is black. Requires cv2 version 3.0+

plantcv.watershed_segmentation(rgb_img, mask, distance=10, filename=False)**

returns watershed_header, watershed_data, analysis_images

  • Parameters:
    • rgb_img - RGB image data
    • mask - binary image, single channel, object in white and background black
    • distance - min_distance of local maximum, lower values are more sensitive, and segments more objects (default: 10)
    • filename - if user wants to output analysis images change filenames from False (default)
  • Context:
    • Used to segment image into parts

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from plantcv import plantcv as pcv

# Set global debug behavior to None (default), "print" (to file), or "plot" (Jupyter Notebooks or X11)
pcv.params.debug = "print"

# Segment image with watershed function
watershed_header, watershed_data, analysis_images = pcv.watershed_segmentation(crop_img, thresh, 10, './examples')

print(watershed_header)
print(watershed_data)

Watershed Segmentation

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('HEADER_WATERSHED', 'estimated_object_count')  
('WATERSHED_DATA', 10)