count_connected_components

rlemasklib.RLEMask.count_connected_components(connectivity=4, min_size=1)

Count connected components without extracting them.

This is the fastest way to count components when you don’t need the actual masks or statistics.

Parameters:

• connectivity (int) – 4 or 8, the connectivity of the components.

• min_size (int) – the minimum size of a component to count.

Returns:

The number of connected components.

Return type:

int

See also

connected_components(), connected_component_stats(), connected_components_with_stats()