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RegionCircularity


Module: FoundationBasic

Computes the area of a region divided by the area of a circular region having the same feature.

Name Type Description
Input value
inRegion Region Input region
Input value
inCircularityMeasure CircularityMeasure Which algorithm should be used to compute a circle
Output value
outCircularity Real
Diagnostic input
diagCircle Circle2D Computed circle which area was compared.

Description

Circularity is a measure of similarity of a region shape to the perfect circle. Circular regions have circularity close to 1.0, while the more elongated the region is (or contains more holes), the closer to 0.0 is its circularity.

Mathematically, the circularity is calculated as follows: Where c denotes a circular region having the same feature as input region r. The feature being considered depends on the inCircularityMeasure chosen and it is:

  • the minimal bounding circle in case of BoundingCirclePreserving
  • the perimeter in case of PerimeterPreserving
  • the radius (maximal distance from mass center to any of the region pixels) in case of RadiusPreserving

Hints

  • If the input region is not guaranteed to be non-empty, precede this filter with SkipEmptyRegion.

Examples

Circularity with RadiusPreserving of the sample region equals to 0.667.

Circularity with PerimeterPreserving of the sample region equals to 1.000.

Errors

This filter can throw an exception to report error. Read how to deal with errors in Error Handling.

List of possible exceptions:

Error type Description
DomainError Empty region on input in RegionCircularity.
DomainError Not supported circularity measure in RegionCircularity.

Complexity Level

This filter is available on Advanced Complexity Level.

See Also

  • RegionConvexity – Computes the area of a region divided by area of its convex hull.
  • RegionElongation – Computes the elongation factor of a region ( perfect circle has minimal elongation equal 1.0 ).
  • PolygonCircularity – Computes the area of a polygon divided by the area of a circle having the same feature.