Quantification of the microstructures of hypoeutectic white cast iron using mathematical morphology and an artificial neural network

International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-64

  De Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C ^a   Tavares, João Manuel R S ^b   Cortez, Paulo César ^c  

^a Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas CCT   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Centro de Tecnologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Image processing and analysis; Image quantification; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURONAL NETWORK; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUANTIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY ALGORITHMS; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CAST IRON;

EID: 77950818759     PISSN: 17418410     EISSN: 17418429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMMP.2010.032501     Document Type: Article

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