`scipy.ndimage._morphology:distance_transform_bf`

source: build-install/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/scipy/ndimage/_morphology.py:1987

Signature

def distance_transform_bf(input, metric = euclidean, sampling = None, return_distances = True, return_indices = False, distances = None, indices = None)

Summary

Distance transform function by a brute force algorithm.

Extended Summary

This function calculates the distance transform of the input, by replacing each foreground (non-zero) element, with its shortest distance to the background (any zero-valued element).

In addition to the distance transform, the feature transform can be calculated. In this case the index of the closest background element to each foreground element is returned in a separate array.

Parameters

input : array_like: Input
metric : {'euclidean', 'taxicab', 'chessboard'}, optional: 'cityblock' and 'manhattan' are also valid, and map to 'taxicab'. The default is 'euclidean'.
sampling : float, or sequence of float, optional: This parameter is only used when metric is 'euclidean'. Spacing of elements along each dimension. If a sequence, must be of length equal to the input rank; if a single number, this is used for all axes. If not specified, a grid spacing of unity is implied.
return_distances : bool, optional: Whether to calculate the distance transform. Default is True.
return_indices : bool, optional: Whether to calculate the feature transform. Default is False.
distances : ndarray, optional: An output array to store the calculated distance transform, instead of returning it. return_distances must be True. It must be the same shape as input, and of type float64 if metric is 'euclidean', uint32 otherwise.
indices : int32 ndarray, optional: An output array to store the calculated feature transform, instead of returning it. return_indices must be True. Its shape must be (input.ndim,) + input.shape.

Returns

distances : ndarray, optional: The calculated distance transform. Returned only when return_distances is True and distances is not supplied. It will have the same shape as the input array.
indices : int32 ndarray, optional: The calculated feature transform. It has an input-shaped array for each dimension of the input. See distance_transform_edt documentation for an example. Returned only when return_indices is True and indices is not supplied.

Notes

This function employs a slow brute force algorithm. See also the function distance_transform_cdt for more efficient taxicab ^[1] and chessboard algorithms ^[2].

Examples

Import the necessary modules.

import numpy as np
from scipy.ndimage import distance_transform_bf
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import ImageGrid

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First, we create a toy binary image.

def add_circle(center_x, center_y, radius, image, fillvalue=1):
    # fill circular area with 1
    xx, yy = np.mgrid[:image.shape[0], :image.shape[1]]
    circle = (xx - center_x) ** 2 + (yy - center_y) ** 2
    circle_shape = np.sqrt(circle) < radius
    image[circle_shape] = fillvalue
    return image
image = np.zeros((100, 100), dtype=np.uint8)
image[35:65, 20:80] = 1
image = add_circle(28, 65, 10, image)
image = add_circle(37, 30, 10, image)
image = add_circle(70, 45, 20, image)
image = add_circle(45, 80, 10, image)

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Next, we set up the figure.

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))  # set up the figure structure
grid = ImageGrid(fig, 111, nrows_ncols=(2, 2), axes_pad=(0.4, 0.3),
                 label_mode="1", share_all=True,
                 cbar_location="right", cbar_mode="each",
                 cbar_size="7%", cbar_pad="2%")

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for ax in grid:
    ax.axis('off')  # remove axes from images

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(np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0), np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0))
(np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0), np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0))
(np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0), np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0))
(np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0), np.float64(0.0), np.float64(1.0))

The top left image is the original binary image.

binary_image = grid[0].imshow(image, cmap='gray')
cbar_binary_image = grid.cbar_axes[0].colorbar(binary_image)
cbar_binary_image.set_ticks([0, 1])

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grid[0].set_title("Binary image: foreground in white")

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Text(0.5, 1.0, 'Binary image: foreground in white')

The distance transform calculates the distance between foreground pixels and the image background according to a distance metric. Available metrics in `distance_transform_bf` are: ``euclidean`` (default), ``taxicab`` and ``chessboard``. The top right image contains the distance transform based on the ``euclidean`` metric.

distance_transform_euclidean = distance_transform_bf(image)
euclidean_transform = grid[1].imshow(distance_transform_euclidean,
                                     cmap='gray')
cbar_euclidean = grid.cbar_axes[1].colorbar(euclidean_transform)
colorbar_ticks = [0, 10, 20]
cbar_euclidean.set_ticks(colorbar_ticks)

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grid[1].set_title("Euclidean distance")

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Text(0.5, 1.0, 'Euclidean distance')

The lower left image contains the distance transform using the ``taxicab`` metric.

distance_transform_taxicab = distance_transform_bf(image,
                                                   metric='taxicab')
taxicab_transformation = grid[2].imshow(distance_transform_taxicab,
                                        cmap='gray')
cbar_taxicab = grid.cbar_axes[2].colorbar(taxicab_transformation)
cbar_taxicab.set_ticks(colorbar_ticks)

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grid[2].set_title("Taxicab distance")

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Text(0.5, 1.0, 'Taxicab distance')

Finally, the lower right image contains the distance transform using the ``chessboard`` metric.

distance_transform_cb = distance_transform_bf(image,
                                              metric='chessboard')
chessboard_transformation = grid[3].imshow(distance_transform_cb,
                                           cmap='gray')
cbar_taxicab = grid.cbar_axes[3].colorbar(chessboard_transformation)
cbar_taxicab.set_ticks(colorbar_ticks)

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grid[3].set_title("Chessboard distance")

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Text(0.5, 1.0, 'Chessboard distance')

plt.show()

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Aliases

scipy.ndimage.distance_transform_bf