Drawing a line in the matrix of an image directly without using imshow()

I have nearly 300 binary images. I need to draw 12 red lines (whose start and end points are known) on every image directly into the matrix of the image without using imshow(). Please let me know if there is any way doing this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See this demo to burn a line into the image. First convert your binary image into uint8:

grayImageR = 255 * uint8(binaryImage);
grayImageG = 255 * uint8(binaryImage);
grayImageB = 255 * uint8(binaryImage);

Then it will be straightforward to get just the line part (remove the ellipse part of the demo) and to burn 255 into grayImageR and 0 into grayImageG and grayImageB, then use cat() to turn them into a color image:

rgbImage = cat(3, grayImageR, grayImageG, grayImageB);

Here's the demo:

% Demo to write an ellipse and a line into the overlay of an image,
% and then to burn those overlays into the image.

%----- Initializing steps -----
% Clean up
clc;
clear all;
close all;
workspace; % Display the workspace panel.

% Change the current folder to the folder of this m-file.
if(~isdeployed)
  cd(fileparts(which(mfilename)));
end

hasIPT = license('test', 'image_toolbox');
if ~hasIPT
  % User does not have the toolbox installed.
  message = sprintf('Sorry, but you do not seem to have the Image Processing Toolbox.\nDo you want to try to continue anyway?');
  reply = questdlg(message, 'Toolbox missing', 'Yes', 'No', 'Yes');
  if strcmpi(reply, 'No')
    % User said No, so exit.
    return;
  end
end

% Display images to prepare for the demo.
monochromeImage = imread('pout.tif');
subplot(2, 4, 1);
imshow(monochromeImage);
title('Original Image');
subplot(2, 4, 2);
imshow(monochromeImage);
title('Original Image with ellipse in overlay');
subplot(2, 4, 5);
imshow(monochromeImage);
title('Original Image');
subplot(2, 4, 6);
imshow(monochromeImage);
title('Original Image with line in overlay');
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]); % Maximize figure.
set(gcf,'name','Demo by ImageAnalyst','numbertitle','off') 

%----- Burn ellipse into image -----
% Create elliptical mask, h, as an ROI object over the second image.
subplot(2, 4, 2);
hEllipse = imellipse(gca,[10 10 50 150]); % Second argument defines ellipse shape and position.
% Create a binary image ("mask") from the ROI object.
binaryImage = hEllipse.createMask();
% Display the ellipse mask.
subplot(2, 4, 3);
imshow(binaryImage);
title('Binary mask of the ellipse');
% Let's try to add some text.  (Doesn't work)
% hText = text(50, 100, 'Line of Text');
% textMask = hText.createMask();
% binaryImage = binaryImage & textMask;
% imshow(binaryImage);
% Burn ellipse into image by setting it to 255 wherever the mask is true.
monochromeImage(binaryImage) = 255;
% Display the image with the "burned in" ellipse.
subplot(2, 4, 4);
imshow(monochromeImage);
title('New image with ellipse burned into image');

%----- Burn line into image -----
burnedImage = imread('pout.tif');
% Create line mask, h, as an ROI object over the second image in the bottom row.
subplot(2, 4, 6);
hLine = imline(gca,[10 100],[10 100]); % Second argument defines line endpoints.
% Create a binary image ("mask") from the ROI object.
binaryImage2 = hLine.createMask();
% Display the line mask.
subplot(2, 4, 7);
imshow(binaryImage2);
title('Binary mask of the line');
% Burn line into image by setting it to 255 wherever the mask is true.
burnedImage(binaryImage2) = 255;
% Display the image with the "burned in" line.
subplot(2, 4, 8);
imshow(burnedImage);
title('New image with line burned into image');

[Walter Roberson]

Oh, good use of createMask!