Exploring the feasibility of traditional image querying tasks for industrial radiographs

Iliana E. Bray; Stephany J. Tsai; Edward S. Jimenez

doi:10.1117/12.2195585

27 August 2015 Exploring the feasibility of traditional image querying tasks for industrial radiographs

Iliana E. Bray, Stephany J. Tsai, Edward S. Jimenez

Proceedings Volume 9594, Medical Applications of Radiation Detectors V; 959403 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2195585
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Although there have been great strides in object recognition with optical images (photographs), there has been comparatively little research into object recognition for X-ray radiographs. Our exploratory work contributes to this area by creating an object recognition system designed to recognize components from a related database of radiographs. Object recognition for radiographs must be approached differently than for optical images, because radiographs have much less color-based information to distinguish objects, and they exhibit transmission overlap that alters perceived object shapes. The dataset used in this work contained more than 55,000 intermixed radiographs and photographs, all in a compressed JPEG form and with multiple ways of describing pixel information. For this work, a robust and efficient system is needed to combat problems presented by properties of the X-ray imaging modality, the large size of the given database, and the quality of the images contained in said database. We have explored various pre-processing techniques to clean the cluttered and low-quality images in the database, and we have developed our object recognition system by combining multiple object detection and feature extraction methods. We present the preliminary results of the still-evolving hybrid object recognition system.

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Iliana E. Bray, Stephany J. Tsai, and Edward S. Jimenez "Exploring the feasibility of traditional image querying tasks for industrial radiographs", Proc. SPIE 9594, Medical Applications of Radiation Detectors V, 959403 (27 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2195585

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