Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34770702›Full record

ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Multivariate Analysis of Concrete Image Using Thermography and Edge Detection.

Bubryur Kim, Se-Woon Choi, Gang Hu, Dong-Eun Lee, Ronnie O Serfa Juan

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Bubryur KimDepartment of Robot and Smart System Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80, Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4226-7435
Se-Woon ChoiDepartment of Architectural Engineering, Daegu Catholic University, Hayang-ro 13-13, Hayang-eup, Gyeongasan-si 38430, Korea.
Gang HuSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Dong-Eun LeeSchool of Architecture, Civil, Environment and Energy Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80, Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9205-3836
Ronnie O Serfa JuanSchool of Architecture, Civil, Environment and Energy Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80, Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8551-8057

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2019R1G1A1095215, NRF-2018R1A5A1025137
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the growing demand for structural health monitoring system applications, data imaging is an ideal method for performing regular routine maintenance inspections. Image analysis can provide invaluable information about the health conditions of a structure's existing infrastructure by recording and analyzing exterior damages. Therefore, it is desirable to have an automated approach that reports defects on images reliably and robustly. This paper presents a multivariate analysis approach for images, specifically for assessing substantial damage (such as cracks). The image analysis provides graph representations that are related to the image, such as the histogram. In addition, image-processing techniques such as grayscale are also implemented, which enhance the object's information present in the image. In addition, this study uses image segmentation and a neural network, for transforming an image to analyze it more easily and as a classifier, respectively. Initially, each concrete structure image is preprocessed to highlight the crack. A neural network is used to calculate and categorize the visual characteristics of each region, and it shows an accuracy for classification of 98%. Experimental results show that thermal image extraction yields better histogram and cumulative distribution function features. The system can promote the development of various thermal image applications, such as nonphysical visual recognition and fault detection analysis.

Indexed as

Image Processing, Computer-AssistedThermographyMultivariate AnalysisNeural Networks, Computerconcretecrack analysiscumulative distribution functionedge detectionSobel edge detection

Identifiers

PMID34770702
PMCPMC8587951

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.