MAMA Software User Guide: Tips for Segmenting with MAMA

Abstract

This document reviews the six ways to segment with the MAMA software. Mama is not a threshold based segmentation system, like many of the image analyses programs you may be have used in the past. The MAMA software is set up to allow you to segment iteratively, and do so in a variety of ways. Six different ways are show below. They can be used in almost any combination—sometimes the choice depends on the image, sometimes it depends on user preferences for what type of interactions a user is willing to do. In the examples below, by “easy”, we mean an image for which MAMA segmentation works great and little clean-up is needed. By hard image, we mean an image for which accurate segmentation is very challenging. Many metal micrographs, and particles with rough textures fall into this class.