Finish lines in the image

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Mateusz Matysiak
Mateusz Matysiak on 16 Sep 2019
Commented: Matt J on 27 Sep 2019
Dear all,
I have an image like the one attached. I have it in binary format.
How do I complete the white lines so the first lines crosses x=0 point, and the remaining lines are finished until they cross each other?
This script should be flexible enough so the number of lines may change (more gaps) and they don't necessarily are lines. They may also be curves.
Here is another example where there are more gaps in data.
Thank you for your help!
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Matt J
Matt J on 20 Sep 2019
Mateusz Matysiak's comment moved here:
The lines should look like below. Initially I was looking into creating multiple linear fit lines. Then, I create the complete lines based on the fits and cross points between the fits.
The picture below shows how it should look like. I finished the lines by hand. The script should do the same.
Matt J
Matt J on 20 Sep 2019
Edited: Matt J on 20 Sep 2019
This script should be flexible enough so the number of lines may change (more gaps) and they don't necessarily are lines. They may also be curves.
You mentioned here that the pieces might be curved (not lines) and so naive line-fitting wouldn't work. Please show an example of this more complicated case and how you want the curves extended.

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Accepted Answer

Matt J
Matt J on 18 Sep 2019
Edited: Matt J on 18 Sep 2019
Here is another method based on interpolation, and faster than dilating with large strels.
[m,n]=size(A);
[I,J]=find(bwskel(A));
IJ=sortrows([I,J],2);
[I,J]=deal(IJ(:,1),IJ(:,2));
Jw=(J(1):J(end)).';
Iw=round(interp1(J,I,Jw));
B=imdilate( accumarray([Iw,Jw],1,[m,n]) , strel('sphere',1));
imshow(B)
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Stelios Fanourakis
Stelios Fanourakis on 20 Sep 2019
Still I struggle to get the correct results. Though I will stick to your first suggestion that works very good for me. Thanks Matt.
Matt J
Matt J on 20 Sep 2019
You are welcome, but please Accept-click an answer if you have found one that works for you.

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Matt J
Matt J on 17 Sep 2019
Perhaps as follows,
gapsize=36;
A=imcrop(rgb2gray(imread('image.png')));
B=(imdilate(A,strel('sphere',ceil(gapsize/2)))>0);
C=imdilate(bwskel(B),strel('sphere',1))|A;
imshow(C)
Capture.PNG
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Stelios Fanourakis
Stelios Fanourakis on 27 Sep 2019
Matt how your code can be used in my image linking the first white pixel lines from the bottom of the image or the last white pixel lines (lines that look like dots) as you see the image from top to bottom.
I attach the image
Matt J
Matt J on 27 Sep 2019
I don't understand how the linking is supposed to work. I suspect, in any case, that it will require a very different method, since it is a very different kind of image. A new thread may be a good idea.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 18 Sep 2019
You might look to the "edge linking" link to the right for alternative methods. The method I like, which may be faster than dilation followed by skeletonization is to call bwmorph(bw, 'endpoints') and then use imline() to draw a line connecting endpoints closer than some distance that you specify.
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Mateusz Matysiak
Mateusz Matysiak on 21 Sep 2019
Image Analyst,
Please explain the imline part. Please give an example.
Thank you

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