A modular U-Net for automated segmentation of X-ray tomography images in composite materials

JPC Bertoldo, E Decencière, D Ryckelynck… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Frontiers in Materials, 2021frontiersin.org
X-Ray Computed Tomography (XCT) techniques have evolved to a point that high-
resolution data can be acquired so fast that classic segmentation methods are prohibitively
cumbersome, demanding automated data pipelines capable of dealing with non-trivial 3D
images. Meanwhile, deep learning has demonstrated success in many image processing
tasks, including materials science applications, showing a promising alternative for a human-
free segmentation pipeline. However, the rapidly increasing number of available …
X-Ray Computed Tomography (XCT) techniques have evolved to a point that high-resolution data can be acquired so fast that classic segmentation methods are prohibitively cumbersome, demanding automated data pipelines capable of dealing with non-trivial 3D images. Meanwhile, deep learning has demonstrated success in many image processing tasks, including materials science applications, showing a promising alternative for a human-free segmentation pipeline. However, the rapidly increasing number of available architectures can be a serious drag to the wide adoption of this type of models by the end user. In this paper a modular interpretation of U-Net (Modular U-Net) is proposed with a parametrized architecture that can be easily tuned to optimize it. As an example, the model is trained to segment 3D tomography images of a three-phased glass fiber-reinforced Polyamide 66. We compare 2D and 3D versions of our model, finding that the former is slightly better than the latter. We observe that human-comparable results can be achievied even with only 13 annotated slices and using a shallow U-Net yields better results than a deeper one. As a consequence, neural networks show indeed a promising venue to automate XCT data processing pipelines needing no human, adhoc intervention.
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