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 …

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 …

Multi-scale reconstruction of porous media from low-resolution core images using conditional generative adversarial networks

Y Yang, F Liu, J Yao, S Iglauer, M Sajjadi… - Journal of natural gas …, 2022 - Elsevier
Various rocks such as carbonate, coal or shale contain both micro-and macro-pores. To
accurately predict the fluid flow and mechanical properties of these porous media, a multi …

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 …

Multimodal imaging and machine learning to enhance microscope images of shale

TI Anderson, B Vega, AR Kovscek - Computers & Geosciences, 2020 - Elsevier
A machine learning based image processing workflow is presented to enhance shale
source rock microscopic images obtained using diverse imaging platforms. Images were …

Enhancing images of shale formations by a hybrid stochastic and deep learning algorithm

S Kamrava, P Tahmasebi, M Sahimi - Neural Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Accounting for the morphology of shale formations, which represent highly heterogeneous
porous media, is a difficult problem. Although two-or three-dimensional images of such …

PoreFlow-Net: A 3D convolutional neural network to predict fluid flow through porous media

JE Santos, D Xu, H Jo, CJ Landry, M Prodanović… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract We present the PoreFlow-Net, a 3D convolutional neural network architecture that
provides fast and accurate fluid flow predictions for 3D digital rock images. We trained our …

3D reconstruction of digital cores based on a model using generative adversarial networks and variational auto-encoders

T Zhang, P Xia, F Lu - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The digitalization of cores, namely the reconstruction of digital cores, is a method to reflect
the real internal structures of cores by reconstructing the microstructural information and …

Stochastic reconstruction of 3D porous media from 2D images using generative adversarial networks

A Valsecchi, S Damas, C Tubilleja, J Arechalde - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
Micro computed tomography (CT) provides petrophysics laboratories with the ability to
image three dimensional porous media at pore scale. However, evaluating flow properties …