Morphological Operations

Introduction

Let’s say you’re given a very messy and clutter picture. For simplicity’s sake, let’s say it’s also a binary image. How would you clean it? Sure, you could go to paint and manually and tediously erase all undesired parts. But what if you had 1,000 of these images? No one would have the patience to manually clean all these images. So what can be done?

Good thing we have – *drumroll please* – Morpological Operations! What are morphological operations? From the name itself, they are processes/operations that work on shapes. One of its applications is in cell-counting, wherein cells are considered as connected blobs, and other shapes, which may be smaller or larger in size, are removed via morphological operations. This blog shall focus on this particular application.