Nanofibres characterization through image processing techniques. / Caracterização de nanofibras através de técnicas de processamento de imagens.

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2009

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The electrospinning technique represents a simple and convenient process to provide polymers and ceramics bers with both solid and hollow interiors that are exceptionally long in length, uniform in diameter, varying within the interval of few nanometers to several microns, and diversied in composition. Despite the versatility and potencially the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) there is a serious problem to characterize nanobers, as it is not made automatically. This work presents novel methodology software for automatic measurement in SEM images, as an eficient alternative in comparison with semi-automatic softwares proposed in literature. The proposed methodology involves the image processing SEM using Mathematical Morphology and the obtained results are argued and compared with those processing for Celullar Neural Network and Otsu method. The microscope images were assessed and analysed by imagery processing techniques to determinate diameters of nanobers. The results has shown good agreement between the investigated and gold standard methods suggesting that the same ones can substitute it to constitute an automatic alternative in the nanobers characterization.

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nanostructured materials scaning electron microscopy image processing processamento de imagens materiais nanoestruturados microscopia eletrônica de varredura

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