Influence of Standard Image Processing of 3D X-ray Microscopy on Morphology, Topology and Effective Properties

Estimating porous media properties is a vital component of geosciences and the physics media. Until now, imaging techniques have focused on methodologies to match image-derived flows or geomechanical parameters with experimentally identified values. Less emphasis has been placed compromise between image processing consequences topological morphological characteristics computed such as permeability. The effects some most popular (filtering segmentation) available in open source 3D X-ray Microscopy (micro-XRM) images are qualitatively quantitatively discussed. We observe impacts various filters erosion-dilation compare efficiency Otsu’s method thresholding machine-learning-based software Ilastik for segmentation.