Image analysis and counting of objects

I have several images of surgical instruments, and my goal is to know how many objects I have in the image, ie for any image the code has to calculate the number of objects present in the image. I have a code done, but it's just giving me the right number for an image. Someone can help me?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Suggestions:

1. Read this link
2. Download and run my Image Segmentation Tutorial here in my File Exchange
3. Post your image and code if you still can't do it.

[Rita Mendes]

The code I made is attached with the name "visaoartificial6". It is working for the first image I posted, but for the second image it does not work. Thank you.

[Image Analyst]

Sorry but this would be a project, not some 5 minute, hundred line program, and I can't afford to spend that much time to help you. The main problem is the non-uniform background plus the overlapping of items. Like how is the program supposed to know that a cross bar of the basket is not a tool? And how does it know that two scissors overlapping is not a single item of some new exotic type of scissors? If you didn't have those problems it would be one line of code to count them all!

[Rita Mendes]

These problems are the major difficulty of this project. The images I have are the simplest in this sense. Thank you for your help.