Is there a way to fill up defects in a stripe image?

I have some images that look like the attached sample.

Is there a way to fill the white holes to make them into a clearer stripe image?

I have used imdilate, imclose, imfill but when I use them the tend to merge the stripes into one bulk. Is this because I'm using them in a wrong way?

Thanks for your help.

[Mahesh Taparia]

Hi

Can you explain in details what you want to do in this image? Do you want to fill this white part with some color or any thing else?

[Hoyong Yie]

Sorry for the late reply.

I want to fill the white parts inside the black line, while keeping the white lines between the black lines.

Like the top left corner of the followiong image.

Thank you for your help

[Mahesh Taparia]

Hi

You want to fill the complete white part of the image with some color or only the selected part? What you want to show in top left part of the image?

[Hoyong Yie]

If you compair the two images, the white dots/defects inside the top right side of the top image is filled in the second image. I want to know if there is a way to do that for the whole image.

[Walter Roberson]

bwareafilt() could get rid of most of the disconnected white regions. It would not, however, get rid of the case like the middle right of the second image where there is a 2 x 2 square that happens to be touching the adjacent run of lines.

[Hoyong Yie]

Thank you very much