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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2016
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
Daniel John Dickrell, III, Gainesville, FL (US);
Jacob J. Panikulam, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method that comprises obtaining an image of a network section through which flow occurs; where the flow is selected from a group consisting of fluid, electrons, protons, neutrons and holes; subjecting the image to a low pass filter to increase contrast in portions of the network sections; computing a local mean of visible light intensity at each pixel that is present in the image; calculating a visible light intensity difference between each pixel and the local mean of visible light intensity and producing a differentiated image using this calculation; creating a base image of the differentiated image; where the base image comprises a hand segmented gold standard dataset; removing objects below a minimum threshold size from the base image; and retaining the remaining objects if they approximate the line or spine.