{
  "title": "Metallographic image analysis insight",
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  "company": "Struers",
  "category": "Metrology & quality control",
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  "source_url": "https://www.struers.com/en/knowledge/image-analysis",
  "content_html": "<h2>About Automated Image Analysis</h2><p>In materialography, automated image analysis most often refers to digital quantitative evaluation of a microstructure image.</p>\n<p>Quantitative measurements are typically length, width, and area, and are used for the evaluation of materialographic characteristics such as grain size, inclusions, layers, and phases or other constituents.</p>\n<p>Digitalization of images enables the handling of high volumes of data, in order to ensure a statistical basis.</p><img src=\"/files/struers-file-e824bd35b9d62fa4af386df2/about-automated-image-analysis-1600x730-px_6e008ed8.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><h2>Software automation</h2><p>Software automation eliminates the time-consuming process of manual identification, counting, or comparison. This can be facilitated, principally, in two different ways:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced universal software which is typically used by experts for a large variety of analyses</li>\n<li>Simpler and dedicated software that is optimized to a single or a few standardized analyses</li>\n</ul><h2>How to Do Automated Image Analysis</h2><h2>Using automated image analysis to measure the dimensions of microstructural features includes six main process steps, which should be carried out and, if relevant, aligned with the applied standard.</h2><p>Choosing a representative specimen that includes the information of interest</p><p>Ensuring an artifact free surface which will not disturb the automatic image analyses systems</p><p>Enhance contrast and ensure focus</p><p>Transforming the analog live image into a digitalized capture</p><p>Remove disturbing information – improve image with software filters to improve contrast, for example</p><p>Output from the complete analysis process</p><h2>Metallographic image analysis insight | Struers.com</h2><p>Learn all you need to know about materialographic image analysis – from specimen selection and preparation through to illumination, digitization and processing – with expertise and insight from Struers, the world’s leading materialographic and metallographic experts.</p>",
  "summary": "Learn all you need to know about materialographic image analysis – from specimen selection and preparation through to illumination, digitization and processing – with expertise and insight from Struers, the world’s leading materialographic and metallographic experts.",
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  "updated_at": "2026-10-17"
}