The application of morphological algorithms on 3-dimensional porous structures for identifying pores and gathering statistical data

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2374-2380

  Byholm, Thomas ^a   Toivakka, Martti ^a   Westerholm, Jan ^a  

^a TURKU CENTRE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Memory consumption; Morphology; Optimisation; Pore structure; Porous media; Statistics

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MAXIMAL BALLS ALGORITHM; MEMORY CONSUMPTION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33751578409     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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