Image Processing in Nondestructive Testing

摘要

In those applications where the principal desire is for higher throughput, the problem often becomes one of automatic feature extraction and mensuration. Classically these problems can be approached by means of either an optical image processor or an analysis in the digital computer. Optical methods have the advantages of low cost and very high speed, but are often inflexible and are sometimes very difficult to implement due to practical problems. Computerized methods can be very flexible, they can use very powerful mathematical techniques, but usually are difficult to implement for very high throughput. Recent technological developments in microprocessors and in electronic analog image analyzers may furnish the key to resolving the shortcomings of the two classical methods of image analysis. (ERA citation 02:020709)