local_maxima(image, selem=None, connectivity=None, indices=False, allow_borders=True)
The local maxima are defined as connected sets of pixels with equal gray level (plateaus) strictly greater than the gray levels of all pixels in the neighborhood.
This function operates on the following ideas:
Make a first pass over the image's last dimension and flag candidates for local maxima by comparing pixels in only one direction. If the pixels aren't connected in the last dimension all pixels are flagged as candidates instead.
For each candidate:
Perform a flood-fill to find all connected pixels that have the same gray value and are part of the plateau.
Consider the connected neighborhood of a plateau: if no bordering sample has a higher gray level, mark the plateau as a definite local maximum.
An n-dimensional array.
A structuring element used to determine the neighborhood of each evaluated pixel ( True
denotes a connected pixel). It must be a boolean array and have the same number of dimensions as :None:None:`image`. If neither selem
nor :None:None:`connectivity` are given, all adjacent pixels are considered as part of the neighborhood.
A number used to determine the neighborhood of each evaluated pixel. Adjacent pixels whose squared distance from the center is less than or equal to :None:None:`connectivity` are considered neighbors. Ignored if selem
is not None.
If True, the output will be a tuple of one-dimensional arrays representing the indices of local maxima in each dimension. If False, the output will be a boolean array with the same shape as :None:None:`image`.
If true, plateaus that touch the image border are valid maxima.
If :None:None:`indices` is false, a boolean array with the same shape as :None:None:`image` is returned with True
indicating the position of local maxima ( False
otherwise). If :None:None:`indices` is true, a tuple of one-dimensional arrays containing the coordinates (indices) of all found maxima.
Find local maxima of n-dimensional array.
If :None:None:`allow_borders` is false and any dimension of the given :None:None:`image` is shorter than 3 samples, maxima can't exist and a warning is shown.
>>> from skimage.morphology import local_maxima
... image = np.zeros((4, 7), dtype=int)
... image[1:3, 1:3] = 1
... image[3, 0] = 1
... image[1:3, 4:6] = 2
... image[3, 6] = 3
... image array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0], [0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0], [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3]])
Find local maxima by comparing to all neighboring pixels (maximal connectivity):
This example is valid syntax, but we were not able to check execution>>> local_maxima(image) array([[False, False, False, False, False, False, False], [False, True, True, False, False, False, False], [False, True, True, False, False, False, False], [ True, False, False, False, False, False, True]])This example is valid syntax, but we were not able to check execution
>>> local_maxima(image, indices=True) (array([1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3]), array([1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 6]))
Find local maxima without comparing to diagonal pixels (connectivity 1):
This example is valid syntax, but we were not able to check execution>>> local_maxima(image, connectivity=1) array([[False, False, False, False, False, False, False], [False, True, True, False, True, True, False], [False, True, True, False, True, True, False], [ True, False, False, False, False, False, True]])
and exclude maxima that border the image edge:
This example is valid syntax, but we were not able to check execution>>> local_maxima(image, connectivity=1, allow_borders=False) array([[False, False, False, False, False, False, False], [False, True, True, False, True, True, False], [False, True, True, False, True, True, False], [False, False, False, False, False, False, False]])See :
The following pages refer to to this document either explicitly or contain code examples using this.
skimage.morphology.extrema.h_maxima
skimage.morphology._extrema_cy._local_maxima
skimage.morphology.extrema.h_minima
skimage.morphology.max_tree.max_tree_local_maxima
skimage.morphology.extrema.local_maxima
skimage.morphology.extrema.local_minima
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