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JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages 1232-1240Publisher
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S1600577522006816
Keywords
3D U-net; deep convolutional neural network; TXM; nanotomography; additive manufacturing
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- European Research Council (ERC) through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [946959]
- Federation Francilienne de Mecanique (F2M)
- European Research Council (ERC) [946959] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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New developments and upgrades in synchrotron facilities have allowed for better study of complex structures with improved resolution. However, the larger amount of data collected poses challenges for manual processing. This study proposes a deep convolutional neural network model that uses machine learning to automatically segment precipitates and porosities in synchrotron transmission X-ray micrograms. Experimental results show that the model can efficiently process large data sets and has potential for various applications.
New developments at synchrotron beamlines and the ongoing upgrades of synchrotron facilities allow the possibility to study complex structures with a much better spatial and temporal resolution than ever before. However, the downside is that the data collected are also significantly larger (more than several terabytes) than ever before, and post-processing and analyzing these data is very challenging to perform manually. This issue can be solved by employing automated methods such as machine learning, which show significantly improved performance in data processing and image segmentation than manual methods. In this work, a 3D U-net deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model with four layers and base-8 characteristic features has been developed to segment precipitates and porosities in synchrotron transmission X-ray micrograms. Transmission X-ray microscopy experiments were conducted on micropillars prepared from additively manufactured 316L steel to evaluate precipitate information. After training the 3D U-net DCNN model, it was used on unseen data and the prediction was compared with manual segmentation. A good agreement was found between both segmentations. An ablation study was performed and revealed that the proposed model showed better statistics than other models with lower numbers of layers and/or characteristic features. The proposed model is able to segment several hundreds of gigabytes of data in a few minutes and could be applied to other materials and tomography techniques. The code and the fitted weights are made available with this paper for any interested researcher to use for their needs (https:// github.com/manasvupadhyay/erc-gamma-3D-DCNN).
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