Image processing tool for automatic feature recognition and quantification

Title: Image processing tool for automatic feature recognition and quantification

A system for defining structures within an image is described. The system includes reading of an input file, preprocessing the input file while preserving metadata such as scale information and then detecting features of the input file. In one version the detection first uses an edge detector followed by identification of features using a Hough transform. The output of the process is identified elements within the image.

Inventors:: Chen, Xing; Stoddard, Ryan J.

Issue Date:: 2017-05-02

OSTI Identifier:: 1354796

Assignee:: UChicago Argonne, LLC ANL

Patent Number(s):: 9,639,926

Application Number:: 15/263,626

Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2016 Sep 13

Research Org:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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