AQUAMI: An open source Python package and GUI for the automatic quantitative analysis of morphologically complex multiphase materials

Joshua Stuckner; Katherine Frei; Ian McCue; Michael J. Demkowicz; Mitsuhiro Murayama

doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.08.012

AQUAMI: An open source Python package and GUI for the automatic quantitative analysis of morphologically complex multiphase materials

Joshua Stuckner^*, Katherine Frei, Ian McCue, Michael J. Demkowicz, Mitsuhiro Murayama

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Abstract

Micrographs of materials contain microstructural information that is quantifiable in principle, but difficult to extract in practice. We present Automatic QUantitative Analysis of Microscopy Images (AQUAMI): a Python package which can automatically analyze micrographs and extract quantitative information to characterize microstructure features. This software package utilizes digital image analysis methods to perform many thousands of measurements on an image and reports information such as the mean feature dimensions, size distribution, and phase area fraction. Results are repeatable and can be directly compared between research groups. The results are robust against large changes in magnification, focus, illumination, and noise. We describe the working principle of the software and demonstrate it on micrographs of nanoporous and nanocomposite metals.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	320-329
Number of pages	10
Journal	Computational Materials Science
Volume	139
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.08.012
State	Published - Nov 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Image analysis
Microstructure
Software

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)
Chemistry(all)
Materials Science(all)
Mechanics of Materials
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Computational Mathematics

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