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Title:	Automated Analysis of CT Images for the Inspection of Hardwood Logs
Author(s):	Li, Harbin; Abbott, A. Lynn; Schmoldt, Daniel L.
Date:	1996
Source:	Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. 1744-1749.
Description:	This paper investigates several classifiers for labeling internal features of hardwood logs using computed tomography (CT) images. A primary motivation is to locate and classify internal defects so that an optimal cutting strategy can be chosen. Previous work has relied on combinations of low-level processing, image segmentation, autoregressive texture modeling, and knowledge-based analysis. Most previous work has also been limited to two-dimensional analysis of a single species only. This paper describes these approaches briefly, and compares them with a feed-forward neural-net classifier that we have developed. In order to accommodate species with different cell anatomies, CT density values are first normalized. Features are then extracted, primarily using local three-dimensional data. Somewhat surprisingly, this locality approach has resulted in a pixel-by-pixel classification accuracy of 95%. This accuracy improves during subsequent morphological processing steps which refine the detected defect regions in the images.
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