Smoothing Edges of a Binary Image

Question

How to smooth the edges of this binary image of blood vessels obtained after thresholding.

I tried a method somewhat similar to this method but did not qui

Answer 1

i made some modifications on @dhanushka 's answer for another question and get these images.

Sorry it is C++ code but maybe you will convert it to Python.

You can change the parameters below to get different results.

// contour smoothing parameters for gaussian filter
int filterRadius = 10; // you can try to change this value
int filterSize = 2 * filterRadius + 1;
double sigma = 20; // you can try to change this value

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

int main( int argc, const char** argv )
{
    Mat im = imread(argv[1], 0);

    Mat cont = ~im;
    Mat original = Mat::zeros(im.rows, im.cols, CV_8UC3);
    Mat smoothed = Mat(im.rows, im.cols, CV_8UC3, Scalar(255,255,255));

    // contour smoothing parameters for gaussian filter
    int filterRadius = 5;
    int filterSize = 2 * filterRadius + 1;
    double sigma = 10;

    vector > contours;
    vector hierarchy;
    // find contours and store all contour points
    findContours(cont, contours, hierarchy, CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_NONE, Point(0, 0));
    for(size_t j = 0; j < contours.size(); j++)
    {
        // extract x and y coordinates of points. we'll consider these as 1-D signals
        // add circular padding to 1-D signals
        size_t len = contours[j].size() + 2 * filterRadius;
        size_t idx = (contours[j].size() - filterRadius);
        vector x, y;
        for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++)
        {
            x.push_back(contours[j][(idx + i) % contours[j].size()].x);
            y.push_back(contours[j][(idx + i) % contours[j].size()].y);
        }
        // filter 1-D signals
        vector xFilt, yFilt;
        GaussianBlur(x, xFilt, Size(filterSize, filterSize), sigma, sigma);
        GaussianBlur(y, yFilt, Size(filterSize, filterSize), sigma, sigma);
        // build smoothed contour
        vector > smoothContours;
        vector smooth;
        for (size_t i = filterRadius; i < contours[j].size() + filterRadius; i++)
        {
            smooth.push_back(Point(xFilt[i], yFilt[i]));
        }
        smoothContours.push_back(smooth);

        Scalar color;

        if(hierarchy[j][3] < 0 )
        {
            color = Scalar(0,0,0);
        }
        else
        {
            color = Scalar(255,255,255);
        }
        drawContours(smoothed, smoothContours, 0, color, -1);
    }
    imshow( "result", smoothed );
    waitKey(0);
}