10/10/23, 12:08 AM Image Filtering and Enhancement — Functions

Image Filtering and Enhancement — Functions

By Category Alphabetical List

Image Filtering
Basic Image Filtering
imfilter N-D filtering of multidimensional images

roifilt2 Filter region of interest (ROI) in grayscale image

nlfilter General sliding-neighborhood operations

imgaussfilt 2-D Gaussian filtering of images

imgaussfilt3 3-D Gaussian filtering of 3-D images

wiener2 2-D adaptive noise-removal filtering

medfilt2 2-D median filtering

medfilt3 3-D median filtering

modefilt 2-D and 3-D mode filtering (Since R2020a)

ordfilt2 2-D order-statistic filtering

stdfilt Local standard deviation of image

rangefilt Local range of image

entropyfilt Local entropy of grayscale image

imboxfilt 2-D box filtering of images

imboxfilt3 3-D box filtering of 3-D images

fibermetric Enhance elongated or tubular structures in image using Frangi vesselness filter

maxhessiannorm Maximum of Frobenius norm of Hessian of matrix

padarray Pad array

Edge-Preserving Filtering
imbilatfilt Bilateral filtering of images with Gaussian kernels

imdiffuseest Estimate parameters for anisotropic diffusion filtering

imdiffusefilt Anisotropic diffusion filtering of images

imguidedfilter Guided filtering of images

imnlmfilt Non-local means filtering of image

burstinterpolant Create high-resolution image from set of low-resolution burst mode images (Since
R2019a)

Texture Filtering
gabor Create Gabor filter or Gabor filter bank

imgaborfilt Apply Gabor filter or filter bank to 2-D image

Filtering By Property Characteristics

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bwareafilt Extract objects from binary image by size

bwpropfilt Extract objects from binary image using properties

Integral Image Domain Filtering

integralImage Calculate 2-D integral image

integralImage3 Calculate 3-D integral image

integralBoxFilter 2-D box filtering of integral images

integralBoxFilter3 3-D box filtering of 3-D integral images

Design Image Filters

fspecial Create predefined 2-D filter

fspecial3 Create predefined 3-D filter

convmtx2 2-D convolution matrix

freqz2 2-D frequency response

fsamp2 2-D FIR filter using frequency sampling

ftrans2 2-D FIR filter using frequency transformation

fwind1 2-D FIR filter using 1-D window method

fwind2 2-D FIR filter using 2-D window method

Contrast Adjustment
imadjust Adjust image intensity values or colormap

imadjustn Adjust intensity values in N-D volumetric image

imcontrast Adjust Contrast tool

imsharpen Sharpen image using unsharp masking

imflatfield 2-D image flat-field correction

imlocalbrighten Brighten low-light image (Since R2019b)

imreducehaze Reduce atmospheric haze

locallapfilt Fast local Laplacian filtering of images

localcontrast Edge-aware local contrast manipulation of images

localtonemap Render HDR image for viewing while enhancing local contrast

histeq Enhance contrast using histogram equalization

adapthisteq Contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE)

imhistmatch Adjust histogram of 2-D image to match histogram of reference image

imhistmatchn Adjust histogram of N-D image to match histogram of reference image

decorrstretch Apply decorrelation stretch to multichannel image

stretchlim Find limits to contrast stretch image

intlut Convert integer values using lookup table

imnoise Add noise to image

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ROI-Based Processing
Represent ROIs as Geometric Shapes
AssistedFreehand Assisted freehand region of interest

Circle Circular region of interest

Crosshair Crosshair region of interest (Since R2019b)

Cuboid Cuboidal region of interest (Since R2019a)

Ellipse Elliptical region of interest

Freehand Freehand region of interest

Line Line region of interest

Point Point region of interest

Polygon Polygonal region of interest

Polyline Polyline region of interest

Rectangle Rectangular region of interest

Create ROI Shapes

drawassisted Create customizable freehand ROI with assistance from object edges

drawcircle Create customizable circular ROI

drawcrosshair Create customizable crosshair ROI (Since R2019b)

drawcuboid Create customizable cuboidal ROI (Since R2019a)

drawellipse Create customizable elliptical ROI

drawfreehand Create customizable freehand ROI

drawline Create customizable linear ROI

drawpoint Create customizable point ROI

drawpolygon Create customizable polygonal ROI

drawpolyline Create customizable polyline ROI

drawrectangle Create customizable rectangular ROI

Customize ROI Shapes

draw Begin drawing ROI interactively

reduce Reduce density of points in ROI (Since R2019b)

beginDrawingFromPoint Begin drawing ROI from specified point

inROI Query if points are located in ROI

bringToFront Bring ROI to front of Axes stacking order (Since R2019a)

wait Block MATLAB command line until ROI operation is finished (Since R2019b)

Create Mask from ROI

createMask Create binary mask image from ROI

roipoly Specify polygonal region of interest (ROI)

poly2mask Convert region of interest (ROI) polygon to region mask

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Filter Image Using ROI

regionfill Fill specified regions in image using inward interpolation

inpaintCoherent Restore specific image regions using coherence transport based image inpainting (Since
R2019a)

inpaintExemplar Restore specific image regions using exemplar-based image inpainting (Since R2019b)

roicolor Select region of interest (ROI) based on color

roifilt2 Filter region of interest (ROI) in grayscale image

reducepoly Reduce density of points in ROI using Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm (Since R2019b)

Morphological Operations
Perform Morphological Operations
imerode Erode image

imdilate Dilate image

imopen Morphologically open image

imclose Morphologically close image

imtophat Top-hat filtering

imbothat Bottom-hat filtering

imclearborder Suppress light structures connected to image border

imkeepborder Retain light structures connected to image border (Since R2023b)

imfill Fill image regions and holes

bwhitmiss Binary hit-miss operation

bwmorph Morphological operations on binary images

bwmorph3 Morphological operations on binary volume

bwperim Find perimeter of objects in binary image

bwskel Reduce all objects to lines in 2-D binary image or 3-D binary volume

bwulterode Ultimate erosion

Perform Morphological Reconstruction

imreconstruct Morphological reconstruction

imregionalmax Regional maxima

imregionalmin Regional minima

imextendedmax Extended-maxima transform

imextendedmin Extended-minima transform

imhmax H-maxima transform

imhmin H-minima transform

imimposemin Impose minima

Create Structuring Elements and Connectivity Arrays

strel Morphological structuring element

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offsetstrel Morphological offset structuring element

conndef Create connectivity array

iptcheckconn Check validity of connectivity argument

Create and Use Lookup Tables

applylut Neighborhood operations on binary images using lookup tables

bwlookup Nonlinear filtering using lookup tables

makelut Create lookup table for use with bwlookup

Pack Binary Images

bwpack Pack binary image

bwunpack Unpack binary image

Deblurring
deconvblind Deblur image using blind deconvolution

deconvlucy Deblur image using Lucy-Richardson method

deconvreg Deblur image using regularized filter

deconvwnr Deblur image using Wiener filter

edgetaper Taper discontinuities along image edges

otf2psf Convert optical transfer function to point-spread function

psf2otf Convert point-spread function to optical transfer function

padarray Pad array

Neighborhood and Block Processing

blockproc Distinct block processing for image

bestblk Determine optimal block size for block processing

nlfilter General sliding-neighborhood operations

col2im Rearrange matrix columns into blocks

colfilt Column-wise neighborhood operations

im2col Rearrange image blocks into columns

blockedImage Big or multiresolution image made from discrete blocks (Since R2021a)

apply Process blocks of blocked image (Since R2021a)

Image Arithmetic
imabsdiff Absolute difference of two images

imadd Add two images or add constant to image

imapplymatrix Linear combination of color channels

imcomplement Complement image

imdivide Divide one image into another or divide image by constant

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imlincomb Linear combination of images

immultiply Multiply two images or multiply image by constant

imsubtract Subtract one image from another or subtract constant from image

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