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Most of the examples from this package are centred around
thresholding images, but really the core function
auto_thresh()
can be used to find thresholds for any
non-negative integer data.
Let’s create a vector of values, most of which are greater than 50, the rest of which are less than 10:
Now let’s take a look at the distribution of x
:
If you’re trying to threshold this sort of data, you’re probably looking for a method which will find a threshold that separates the larger values from the smaller ones. The available automatic thresholding methods are “IJDefault”, “Huang”, “Huang2”, “Intermodes”, “IsoData”, “Li”, “MaxEntropy”, “Mean”, “MinErrorI”, “Minimum”, “Moments”, “Otsu”, “Percentile”, “RenyiEntropy”, “Shanbhag”, “Triangle” and “Yen”. These are well demonstrated at https://imagej.net/plugins/auto-threshold.
“MaxEntropy” and “Yen” often fail to find a threshold, so I generally avoid them. Let’s try out all the rest.
library(autothresholdr)
thresh_methods <- c(
"IJDefault", "Huang", "Huang2", "Intermodes", "IsoData",
"Li", "Mean", "MinErrorI", "Minimum", "Moments", "Otsu",
"Percentile", "RenyiEntropy", "Shanbhag", "Triangle"
)
thresholds <- purrr::map_chr(thresh_methods, ~ auto_thresh(x, .)) %>%
tibble(method = thresh_methods, threshold = .)
#> Warning: Automatic coercion from integer to character was deprecated in purrr 1.0.0.
#> ℹ Please use an explicit call to `as.character()` within `map_chr()` instead.
#> Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
#> generated.
print(thresholds)
#> # A tibble: 15 × 2
#> method threshold
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 IJDefault 40
#> 2 Huang 9
#> 3 Huang2 9
#> 4 Intermodes 39
#> 5 IsoData 40
#> 6 Li 25
#> 7 Mean 60
#> 8 MinErrorI 60
#> 9 Minimum 33
#> 10 Moments 56
#> 11 Otsu 9
#> 12 Percentile 68
#> 13 RenyiEntropy 70
#> 14 Shanbhag 70
#> 15 Triangle 11
Now, which of these selected a threshold between 10 and 49?
filter(thresholds, threshold >= 10, threshold <= 49)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#> method threshold
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 IJDefault 40
#> 2 Intermodes 39
#> 3 IsoData 40
#> 4 Li 25
#> 5 Minimum 33
#> 6 Triangle 11
The other methods aren’t necessarily wrong, they’re just more strict or more lax than these ones. For thresholding microscopy images to remove background, my favourite methods are “Huang” and “Triangle” because they are quite conservative in that anything even slightly above background is kept.
auto_thresh(x, "huang")
#> [1] 9
#> attr(,"ignore_black")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"ignore_white")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"ignore_na")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"autothresh_method")
#> [1] "Huang"
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "th" "integer"
auto_thresh(x, "tri")
#> [1] 11
#> attr(,"ignore_black")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"ignore_white")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"ignore_na")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"autothresh_method")
#> [1] "Triangle"
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "th" "integer"
auto_thresh(x, "otsu")
#> [1] 9
#> attr(,"ignore_black")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"ignore_white")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"ignore_na")
#> [1] FALSE
#> attr(,"autothresh_method")
#> [1] "Otsu"
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "th" "integer"
Rather than an array of values, you may have a frequency table. I’ll
create one here from x
.
x_freqtab <- x %>%
table() %>%
as.data.frame() %>%
magrittr::set_names(c("value", "n"))
head(x_freqtab)
#> value n
#> 1 1 22227
#> 2 2 22001
#> 3 3 22290
#> 4 4 22211
#> 5 5 22298
#> 6 6 22082
If you have the data in this format (a data frame with column names
value
and n
) you can use the same function
auto_thresh()
.
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