Automated measurement of sintering degree in optical microscopy through image analysis of particle joins
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Highlights：
• Sintering describes the bonding of particles into a more coherent structure.
• We present an automatic image analysis algorithm to determine the sintering degree.
• Particle join geometric properties and curvature are computed.
• These features are shown to display properties consistent with sintering theory.
• Results are validated with physical dilation measurements on iron ore pellets.
摘要
Highlights•Sintering describes the bonding of particles into a more coherent structure.•We present an automatic image analysis algorithm to determine the sintering degree.•Particle join geometric properties and curvature are computed.•These features are shown to display properties consistent with sintering theory.•Results are validated with physical dilation measurements on iron ore pellets.
论文关键词：Image analysis,Feature extraction,Morphological image processing,Curvature,Sintering,Microscopy,Iron ore pellets
论文评审过程：Received 9 May 2013, Revised 17 February 2015, Accepted 11 May 2015, Available online 21 May 2015, Version of Record 16 July 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2015.05.012
