An enhanced method for the identification of ferritic morphologies in welded fusion zones based on gray-level co-occurrence matrix: A computational intelligence approach

Abstract

This work focuses on the identification of five of the most common ferritic morphologies present in welded fusion zones of low carbon steel through images acquired by photomicrographies. With this regards, we discuss the importance of the gray-level co-occurrence matrix to extract the features to be used as the input of the computational intelligence techniques. We use artificial neural networks and support vector machines to identify the proportions of each morphology and present the error identification rate for each technique. The results show that the use of gray-level co-occurrence extraction allows a less intense computational model with statistical validity and the support vector machine as a computational intelligence technique allows smaller variability when compared to the artificial neural networks.