The Segmentation of Ferrography Images: A Brief Survey

摘要

This paper provides a general overview on the developments and progress in the segmentation of ferrography images. The problems experienced with applying traditional image processing methods in the segmentation of wear particles, revealed that it is still a big challenge for intelligent ferrography. This has highlighted the need for combining the segmentation and clustering methods for performing ferrography image analysis. In this paper, some of the developments reported in the literature relating to progress made with wear particle image segmentation are reported and examined as a basis for establishing improved methods of ferrography image analysis.