A new solution for automatic microstructures analysis from images based on a backpropagation artificial neural network

Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 273-283

  De Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C ^a   Cortez, Paulo C ^b   De Alexandria, Auzuir R ^c   Tavares, Joao Manuel R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica do Ceara   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Image processing and analysis; Image segmentation and quantification; Materials science; Microstructures; Multilayer perception

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; CAST IRON; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IRON ORE TREATMENT; KETONES; MALLEABLE IRON CASTINGS; MATERIALS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; METAL CASTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTILAYERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; VEGETATION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; BACKPROPAGATION ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN TESTS; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND QUANTIFICATION; MALLEABLE CAST IRONS; MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSES; MULTILAYER PERCEPTION; MULTILAYER PERCEPTIONS; NEURAL-NETWORK; NEW SOLUTIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 54949117978     PISSN: 10589759     EISSN: 14772671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10589750802258986     Document Type: Article

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