FeatureScout

FeatureScout, formerly known as FiberScout, is designed to accurately analyze fiber-reinforced polymers with respect to their fiber/pore properties (for example, distribution of fiber lengths and fiber orientation). The individual fibers/pores can be selected and displayed by certain criteria. Fibers/pores with similar properties can be grouped into classes and stored with additional statistical information in a list. Specific visualization methods simultaneously show the spatial position of all defined fiber/pore classes in the CT volume data set.

All it requires is a comma-separated file (csv) describing these properties for each feature. A tool for creating this csv file (mainly targeted for pores) is included in the FeatureCharacteristics module, and available under "Filters -> Feature Characteristics -> Calculate Feature Characteristics". The input for this filter is an already segmented image where each feature (e.g. pore) has its own ID (as can be achieved by applying a Connected Component Filter).

Publication: Johannes Weissenböck, Artem Amirkhanov, Weimin Li, Andreas Reh, Artem Amirkhanov, Eduard Gröller, Johann Kastner, Christoph Heinzl: "FiberScout: An Interactive Tool for Exploring and Analyzing Fiber Reinforced Polymers", 2014 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, Yokohama, 2014, pp. 153-160. doi: 10.1109/PacificVis.2014.52