``region isolation'' -- extract a large bright region

purpose:

Crudely isolate the largest bright region in a volume.

The following operations are done: 1. threshold the volume, using a user-preset threshold; 2. apply a 331 erosion followed by a 331 dilation (i.e., these two operations constitute a 331 opening) to smooth the thresholded result [25,19]; 3. save the largest connected object > 25 voxels in size.

input:

An 8-bit volume.

output:

An 8-bit volume containing the isolated object. Voxels equal to 1 belong to the object; 0's belong to the background.

parameters:

Default parameters menu is

threshold = 0
* input from vol # = 0
* copy output to vol # = 0
*

comments:

1. This operation takes a moderate amount of computation time.

Updated: Fri May 19 14:39:07 CDT