Cropping an image using imfreehand()

I want to crop the ROI from an image using imfreehand() but I am not able to. How can I crop an using imfreehand(). Would cropping the ROI also affect the qualtiy of the ROI as a whole. If it would affect the ROI then what is the solution?

imshow('cameraman.png');

h = imfreehand();

position = wait(h);

What am I supposed to do after this to get the ROI without losing the quality? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try this:

grayImage = imread('cameraman.tif');
imshow(grayImage);
subplot(1, 2, 1);
imshow(grayImage);
fontSize = 20;
title('Double click inside to accept it.', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'OuterPosition', [0, 0.04, 1, 0.96]);

promptMessage = sprintf('Click and drag out a region.\nDouble click inside to quit.\nor Quit processing?');
titleBarCaption = 'Continue?';
buttonText = questdlg(promptMessage, titleBarCaption, 'Draw', 'Quit', 'Draw');
if contains(buttonText, 'Quit')
	return;
end

h = imfreehand();
position = wait(h)
% Make integers
position = round(position);
% Find cropping limits.
col1 = min(position(:, 1))
col2 = max(position(:, 1))
row1 = min(position(:, 2))
row2 = max(position(:, 2))
% Do the crop
croppedImage = grayImage(row1:row2, col1:col2);
% Show the cropped image.
subplot(1, 2, 2);
imshow(croppedImage);
title('Cropped Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);

[shivasmic]

Thank you very much for your response. My question here is would it be worthy for me extract the features from this cropped image as it can be seen that the image has been deterioted after cropping. Thanks in advance.

[Image Analyst]

The image is NOT deteriorated after cropping. You still have the original pixels. It only looks pixelated because it's magnified for display.

It is usually not necessary for you to extract/crop the subimage to do image analysis on it. I usually don't unless I need to do something like doing OCR and need to get one character or one band of text in an image.

[shivasmic]

Thank you image analyst for the assistance. Can you please let me know is there any way that I can fix the size of the window to 256X256 so that everytime I crop out an image of size of 256X256 using imfreehand(). Thanks in advance.