Application of texture filtering in clustering of x-ray computed tomography data of products from polymer composite materials

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X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is one of the most informative methods of nondestructive testing of polymer composite materials (PCM) and products made of them. One of the important stages of XCT of PCM products is segmentation, the automation of which is of research interest. In the segmentation process it is important to identify isotexture zones containing local X-ray density variations. In this paper we investigated the possibilities of three-dimensional texture filtering (Gaussian filter, Gabor filters) in clustering of X-ray computed tomography data by simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) algorithm and evaluated their efficiency in terms of parameters: the share of mismatches between the boundaries of clusters and the boundaries of segmented areas and sphericity of clusters, as well as the performance in terms of time to partition the dataset into the required number of clusters. The results of the study show that the application of three-dimensional texture filters improves the clustering accuracy and sphericity of isotexture clusters of PCM product XCT data without a significant increase in clustering time compared to the raw data. The maximum increase in clustering accuracy was observed when using a combination of Gaussian and Gabor filters, while clustering time increased.

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Aleksandr V. Shirshin

ITMO University; Federal State Budgetary Military Educational Institution of Higher Education «Kirov Military Medical Academy» of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Email: asmdot@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1494-9626
SPIN-code: 4412-0498
Scopus Author ID: 57809284700
Russian Federation, 197101 Saint Petersburg, Kronverksky avenue, 49 A; 194044 Saint Petersburg, Akademika Lebedeva str., 6 ZH

Aleksey V. Fedorov

ITMO University

Email: afedor62@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0612-922X
SPIN-code: 2489-4043
Scopus Author ID: 57219346304
Russian Federation, 197101 Saint Petersburg, Kronverksky avenue, 49 A

Igor S. Zheleznyak

Federal State Budgetary Military Educational Institution of Higher Education «Kirov Military Medical Academy» of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Email: igzh@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7383-512X
SPIN-code: 1450-5053
Scopus Author ID: 57201822052
Russian Federation, 194044 Saint Petersburg, Akademika Lebedeva str., 6 ZH

Stepan A. Peleshok

Federal State Budgetary Military Educational Institution of Higher Education «Kirov Military Medical Academy» of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

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Email: peleshokvma@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9460-8126
SPIN-code: 3657-9756
Scopus Author ID: 6507481006
Russian Federation, 194044 Saint Petersburg, Akademika Lebedeva str., 6 ZH

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2. Fig. 1. A fragment of the dataset without affine transformation with 12 clusterable repeating combinations of filling parts.

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3. Fig. 2. An example of partitioning into clusters (cluster boundaries are highlighted in yellow) of a data set with an affine transformation (rotation minus 45°).

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4. Fig. 3. Submaximal shares of clusters (grayscale) intersected by reference contours of repeating combinations of filling parts (straight lines).

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5. Fig. 4. Cluster boundaries during clustering without preprocessing (left) and with the use of texture filters (right).

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