Digital rock segmentation for petrophysical analysis with reduced user bias using convolutional neural networks

Y Niu, P Mostaghimi, M Shabaninejad… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pore‐scale digital images are usually obtained from microcomputed tomography data that
has been segmented into void and grain space. Image segmentation is a crucial step in the …

Deep learning convolutional neural networks to predict porous media properties

N Alqahtani, RT Armstrong… - SPE Asia Pacific oil and …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Digital rocks obtained from high-resolution micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) imaging
has quickly emerged as a powerful tool for studying pore-scale transport phenomena in …

Deep neural networks for improving physical accuracy of 2D and 3D multi-mineral segmentation of rock micro-CT images

Y Da Wang, M Shabaninejad, RT Armstrong… - Applied Soft …, 2021 - Elsevier
Segmentation of 3D micro-Computed Tomographic (μ CT) images of rock samples is
essential for further Digital Rock Physics (DRP) analysis, however, conventional methods …

Deep learning in pore scale imaging and modeling

Y Da Wang, MJ Blunt, RT Armstrong… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Pore-scale imaging and modeling has advanced greatly through the integration of Deep
Learning into the workflow, from image processing to simulating physical processes. In …

Application of deep learning for semantic segmentation of sandstone thin sections

N Saxena, RJ Day-Stirrat, A Hows, R Hofmann - Computers & Geosciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Sedimentary petrology is the basis for most mineral and textural identification in sandstones.
Automating mineralogical interpretation of an entire thin section image has many practical …

Benchmarking conventional and machine learning segmentation techniques for digital rock physics analysis of fractured rocks

M Reinhardt, A Jacob, S Sadeghnejad… - Environmental Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Image segmentation remains the most critical step in Digital Rock Physics (DRP) workflows,
affecting the analysis of physical rock properties. Conventional segmentation techniques …

Automatic segmentation tool for 3D digital rocks by deep learning

J Phan, LC Ruspini, F Lindseth - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Obtaining an accurate segmentation of images obtained by computed microtomography
(micro-CT) techniques is a non-trivial process due to the wide range of noise types and …

Digital petrography: Mineralogy and porosity identification using machine learning algorithms in petrographic thin section images

RA Rubo, C de Carvalho Carneiro, MF Michelon… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Images represent a large and efficient source of geological information from oil exploration.
To better analyze them, well-known machine learning algorithms are used to extract …

An application of deep neural networks for segmentation of microtomographic images of rock samples

I Varfolomeev, I Yakimchuk, I Safonov - Computers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Image segmentation is a crucial step of almost any Digital Rock workflow. In this paper, we
propose an approach for generation of a labelled dataset and investigate an application of …

Flow-based characterization of digital rock images using deep learning

NJ Alqahtani, T Chung, YD Wang, RT Armstrong… - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
X-ray imaging of porous media has revolutionized the interpretation of various microscale
phenomena in subsurface systems. The volumetric images acquired from this technology …