Stability of Kerogen Classification with Regard to Image Segmentation |
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| Authors: | J J Charles L I Kuncheva B Wells I S Lim |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Computer Science, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 1UT, UK;(2) Conwy Valley Systems Ltd, Conwy, UK |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the stability of an automatic system for classifying kerogen material from images of sieved rock samples.
The system comprises four stages: image acquisition, background removal, segmentation, and classification of the segmented
kerogen pieces as either inertinite or vitrinite. Depending upon a segmentation parameter d, called “overlap”, touching pieces of kerogen may be split differently. The aim of this study is to establish how robust
the classification result is to variations of the segmentation parameter. There are two issues that pose difficulties in carrying
out an experiment. First, even a trained professional may be uncertain when distinguishing between isolated pieces of inertinite
and vitrinite, extracted from transmitted-light microscope images. Second, because manual labelling of large amount of data
for training the system is an arduous task, we acquired the true labels (ground truth) only for the pieces obtained at overlap
d=0.5. To construct ground truth for various values of d we propose here label-inheritance trees. With thus estimated ground truth, an experiment was carried out to evaluate the
robustness of the system to changes in the segmentation through varying the overlap value d. The average system accuracy across values of d spanning the range from 0 to 1 was 86.5%, which is only slightly lower than the accuracy of the system at the design value
of d=0.5 (89.07%). |
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| Keywords: | Classification Microfossils Image analysis Segmentation Palynomorph |
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