在图像处理,尤其是医学图像处理的过程中,我们经常会遇到将灰度图映射成彩色图的情形,如将灰度图根据灰度的高低映射成彩虹色图。这个过程我们通常将之称为伪彩映射,伪彩映射的关键在于找到合适的彩色映射表,即colormap,也称color bar。
前段时间做了一个涉及到伪彩映射的项目,在找colormap的过程中,我发现Python的matplotlib模块中内嵌了一大批常用的colormaps,使用如下代码:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Have colormaps separated into categories:
# http://matplotlib.org/examples/color/colormaps_reference.html
cmaps = [('Perceptually Uniform Sequential',
['viridis', 'inferno', 'plasma', 'magma']),
('Sequential', ['Blues', 'BuGn', 'BuPu',
'GnBu', 'Greens', 'Greys', 'Oranges', 'OrRd',
'PuBu', 'PuBuGn', 'PuRd', 'Purples', 'RdPu',
'Reds', 'YlGn', 'YlGnBu', 'YlOrBr', 'YlOrRd']),
('Sequential (2)', ['afmhot', 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool',
'copper', 'gist_heat', 'gray', 'hot',
'pink', 'spring', 'summer', 'winter']),
('Diverging', ['BrBG', 'bwr', 'coolwarm', 'PiYG', 'PRGn', 'PuOr',
'RdBu', 'RdGy', 'RdYlBu', 'RdYlGn', 'Spectral',
'seismic']),
('Qualitative', ['Accent', 'Dark2', 'Paired', 'Pastel1',