segmentation menu

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Segmentation means the identification of objects in images. This identification is usually done in two parts:

  1. You develop some kind of selection rule that decides whether a pixel is part of an object, or part of the background. By applying this rule to each pixel in the image, you can create a bitmap image, in which each pixel is either black or white. Black pixels are object pixels, and white pixels are background pixels.
  2. You analyze the way the object pixels are connected together, so that you can identify complete objects, from which you can obtain geometrical information such as area, perimeter, and so on.

The Segment menus are designed to perform the first part of the process, that is, to create bitmap images. You can then analyze geometrical properties in the Analyze section of the program.