Removing unwanted components in a binary image?

Heloo... am working on pothole images. Below is the binary image of pothole attached and i wanted to remove the unwanted components sorrounding the pothole and i want only the pothole image as the output without any unwanted areas, could anyone help me?

thanks in advance...:)

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

Can you point out pothole in the image? Use paint or any

[Srinidhi Gorityala]

Thanks for responding @KALYAN ACHARJYA.. The highlighted one is the pothole image and remaining are the cracks on the road.

Answer 1

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

BW=bwareafilt(bw_im,1);
result=bw_im-BW;
imshow(result);

If you are more interested to control the small area objects use this function

bwareaopen

[Srinidhi Gorityala]

@KALYAN ACHARJYA... i have used the below code by using bwareopen and my output seems to be the attached image but i wanted to remove the highlighted ones because those are cracks on the road. The below color image is the original pothole image.

thankyou...

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

Apply imclose on the resultant binary image with proper structuring element objects

https://in.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/imclose.html

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

You need to define what you want. For example, do you want just the largest blob with bwareafilt(bw, 1)? Or blobs larger than a certain area with bwareaopen(bw, someArea)? Do you want to fill holes with imfill(bw, 'holes')? Also you should make sure your initial segmentation gives the pothole(s) as white, not black, since binary operations are done on true/white/1 valued pixels, not false/black/0 valued objects.