Automatic Counting Robot Development Supporting Qualitative Asbestos Analysis -Asbestos, Air Bubbles, and Particles Classification Using Machine Learning-
Author(s) -
Kenichi Ishizu,
Hiroshi Takemura,
Kuniaki Kawabata,
Hajime Asama,
Taketoshi Mishima,
Hiroshi Mizoguchi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of robotics and mechatronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1883-8049
pISSN - 0915-3942
DOI - 10.20965/jrm.2010.p0506
Subject(s) - asbestos , artificial intelligence , computer science , process (computing) , robot , qualitative analysis , asbestos fibers , computer vision , materials science , composite material , qualitative research , social science , sociology , operating system
Asbestos, particle, and air bubble counting generally supports qualitative asbestos analysis, using such procedures as dispersion staining. Operators conventionally check and count asbestos fibers visually using a microscope – a difficult, time-consuming process. The microscopic observation robot we are automating to support qualitative asbestos analysis imagesfibers and saves them automatically to a database. In this paper, we introduce image processing method using machine learning to count asbestos, particles, and air bubbles automatically.
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