Finding the area of the black spots in a circle MATLAB - matlab

Question

Is it possible to find the area of the black pixelation of an area within a circle? in other words I want to find the number of pixels (the area) of the RGB 0,0,0 (black pixels) within the circle. I do not want the areas of the white pixels (1,1,1) within the circle. I also have a radius of the circle if that helps. Here is the image:
Here is the code:
BW2= H(:,:) <0.45 ;%& V(:,:)<0.1;
aa=strel('disk',5);
closeBW = imclose(BW2,aa);
figure, imshow(closeBW)
imshow(closeBW)
viscircles([MYY1 MYX1], round(MYR2/2))
MYY1,MYX2, and the other values are calculated by my program. How can I find the area of the black pixelation in my circle?

Answer 1

Here is an idea:
1) Calculate the total # of black pixels in your original image (let's call it A).
2) Duplicate that image (let's call it B) and replace all pixels inside the circle with white. To do that, create a binary mask. (see below)
3) Calculate the total # of black pixels in that image (i.e. B).
4) Subtract both values. That should give you the number of black pixels within the circle.
Sample code: I used a dummy image I had on my computer and created a logical mask with the createMask method from imellipse. That seems complicated but in your case since you have the center position and radius of the circle you can create directly your mask like I did or by looking at this question/answer.
Once the mask is created, use find to get the linear indices of the white pixels of the mask (i.e. all of it) to replace the pixels in the circle of your original image with white pixels, which you use to calculate the difference in black pixels.
clc;clear;close all
A = im2bw(imread('TestCircle.png'));
imshow(A)
Center = [160 120];
Radius = 60;
%// In your case:
% Center = [MYY1 MYX1];
% Radius = round(MYR2/2);
%// Get sum in original image
TotalBlack_A = sum(sum(~A))
e = imellipse(gca, [Center(1) Center(2) Radius Radius]);
%// Create the mask
ROI = createMask(e);
%// Find white pixels
white_id = find(ROI);
%// Duplicate original image
B = A;
%// Replace only those pixels in the ROI with white
B(white_id) = 1;
%// Get new sum
NewBlack_B = sum(sum(~B))
%// Result!
BlackInRoi = TotalBlack_A - NewBlack_B
In this case I get this output:
TotalBlack_A =
158852
NewBlack_B =
156799
BlackInRoi =
2053
For this input image: