Help splitting blobs that contain overlap in an image

I have a binary image containing blobs that I want to split. Valid regions tend to have a circular or ellipse type shape. However, the binary image contains overlap between various images. I was wondering if anyone had any experience solving this type of issue.

Any help understanding or useful functions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Ryan]

A sample image may result in better answers if you can provide one.

It sounds like you'll need to use a watershed technique. Check out this blog post by Steve Eddins. Here is another example and one more for good measure.