A novel method for extracting information on pores from cast thin-section images

In rock physics and petrological applications, pore identification from cast thin-section (CTS) images is a widely used means of estimating porosity and evaluating types of pores and pore structure parameters. Common problems encountered in current automatic methods of pore extraction from these images are accuracy and/or computational efficiency, especially as the image resolution increases. In high resolution, the transition boundaries between...