Computer techniques towards the automatic characterization of graphite particles in metallographic images of industrial materials

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 590-597

  Papa, João P ^a   Nakamura, Rodrigo Y M ^a   De Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C ^b   Falcão, Alexandre X ^c   Tavares, João Manuel R S ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computer classifiers; Computer methods; Gray and malleable cast irons; Material characterization; Nodular; Otsu's method

Indexed keywords

BINARIZE; COMPLEX METHODS; COMPUTER TECHNIQUES; GRAPHITE PARTICLES; INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS; MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION; MALLEABLE CAST IRON; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS; METALLOGRAPHIC IMAGES; NODULAR; OPTIMUM-PATH FORESTS; OTSU'S METHOD;

FORESTRY; GRAPHITE; INDUSTRY; MALLEABLE IRON CASTINGS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLOGRAPHY;

CHARACTERIZATION;

CASTINGS; CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTERS; FORESTRY; IRON; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84867677551     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.062     Document Type: Article

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