Advanced automated char image analysis techniques

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1211-1219

  Wu, Tao ^a   Lester, Edward ^a   Cloke, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COAL COMBUSTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED CHAR IMAGE ANALYSIS; CHAR MORPHOLOGY; COAL BEHAVIOR; COAL BURNOUT;

COAL;

EID: 33745593448     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef050360d     Document Type: Article

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