How to get the centerline of a binary region

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I have a binarize image below, I am trying to find the centerline of the image such as that in red on the binarize image. I did use the bskel function but get branches. I am hoping to elimated (prone or remove) all branches.
Any suggestions will be most appreciated. Any other way to do this another than using bskel will be great too.

Accepted Answer

DGM
DGM on 17 Oct 2021
There's this.
A = imread('arc.png')>128;
B = bwmorph(A,'skel',inf); % skeletonize
B = imfill(B,'holes'); % get rid of any tiny closed paths
B = bwmorph(B,'skel',inf); % finish skeletonizing
% remove endpoints until only two are left
while true
e = bwmorph(B,'endpoints');
if nnz(e)>2
B = B & ~e;
else
break;
end
end
imshow(B)

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KSSV
KSSV on 17 Oct 2021
You can get the indices of white pixels using find and to the data you can try fitting a line or quadratic equation using polyfit.
[y,x] = find(I) ;
p = polyfit(x,y,2) ;
xi = linspace(min(x),max(x)) ;
yi = polyval(p,xi) ;
plot(X,y,'.k')
hold on
plot(xi,yi,'r')
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Woj
Woj on 11 Jan 2023
Hi. Sry for the stupid question, but im very very new to matlab. I have exactly the same problem, but i dont understand how do i find the white pixels?
thank you

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