Python Morphology Toolbox

The open source Python Morphology Toolbox is a very nice piece of software, written by Roberto A. Lutofu and Rubens C. Machado. Unfortunately, the code has been allowed to rot and does not work with the more recent numpy libraries.

Since discovering their code, I have been using it with random patches to the functions I needed. Recently, I decided to perform a fuller code clean up and release it publicly in the hope that it would be useful to others.

The license stays BSD and the code can be downloaded as a source tar.gz file. Installation follows the typical

python setup.py install

New Release: Aug 14 2008 (0.90)

Small improvements and bugfixes. I uploaded a version to PyPI too, so I decided to increase the version number before uploading.

New Release: Aug 5 2008 (0.89)

This new release includes a bunch of minor fixes plus a pure Python implementation of watershed segmentation. I thought watershed was useful enough to warrant a new release. The interface has changed slightly, but I don't think that matters because the old code did not work.

Documentation

Most of the documentation in the original documentation is still valid, except that I removed the mm prefix from function names. Function name prefixes are needed in Matlab, which does not have namespaces, but they're un-Pythonic (given that Python has namespaces).

I also changed other small things, including removing some functions which were superfluous. See the CHANGES_SINCE_08 file in the distribution.

A module called pymorph.compat contains old function names as well as all the functions that were removed. If you have code which depends on the old names, use this. Otherwise, I recommend you use the new names.