APEER - Intuitive Automated Image-Processing Software

Every quantitative analysis of a set of micrographs involves some form of segmentation. A region could be a mineral fragment, a grain in a metal, a pore in a composite, an oil contamination on the surface, a blood cell – any area differentiable from a neighboring area. By analysing these regions or the borders between regions, we get useful information. There are several standards for determining useful microstructural properties by image analysis of segmented images – e.g. for grain size, inclusion content, and porosity. These analyses, however, depend on the accuracy and reliability of the segmentation results.

At the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems, Professor Ralf Wehrspohn and his highly qualified team are challenged with controlling the quality of toothbrushes and toothpastes. While they have a lot of data and images to analyze, it simply is not possible to analyze everything using traditional methods. APEER, a modern cloud-based digital microscopy platform, has enabled Prof. Wehrspohn and his team to establish an end to end workflow that allows them to automatically process all the images they collect and achieve more accurate results.