A10 - Binary Operations

In connection to my previous blog post on Morphological Operations, I will discuss the techniques involved in Binary Operations. As what you can infer from the name, it is all about operations involving binarization of an image.

Why and where is this technique useful then? Why binarize the image in the first place?

--> The answer is simple, binarizing an image makes it easier to separate the region of interest (ROI) from a background. If the separation is successful, we can then perform many processes in understanding the ROI. For example, in medical imaging, cancerous cells are often larger than normal cells, thus we can easily detect and separate them from the background and from normal cells by applying binary operations. Reading through this blog post will give you an idea on the procedure of this technique.