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Automated Image Segmentation and Processing Pipeline Applied to X–Ray Computed Tomography Studies of Pitting Corrosion in Aluminum Wires

Kalutotage, Maliesha S. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0009000964408180)·Ciardi, Thomas G. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0009000609422666)·Tripathi, Pawan K. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000286047744)·Huang, Liangyi [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)]·Jimenez, Jayvic Cristian [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000223425648)·Noell, Philip J. [Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)]·Bruckman, Laura S. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000312711072)·French, Roger H. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000261620532)·Sehirlioglu, Alp [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000297084049)
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Understanding pitting corrosion is critical, yet its kinetics and morphology remain challenging to study from X-ray computed tomography (XCT) due to manual segmentation barriers. To address this, an automated pipeline leveraging deep learning for efficient large-scale XCT analysis is developed, revealing new corrosion insights. The pipeline enables pit segmentation, 3D reconstruction, statistical characterization, and a topological transformation for visualization. Here, the pipeline is applied to 87 648 XCT images capturing commercial purity aluminum (1100 Al) wire exposed to sodium chloride (NaCl) salt particles over a period of 122 h. The pipeline achieves complete feature extraction and statistical quantification across the entire XCT dataset, leveraging distributed computing environment for high efficiency. Global growth kinetics such as high-level stepwise sigmoidal volume loss patterns and granular individual pit developments are both captured for 36 detected pits. By combining automation, computer vision, and extensive XCT datasets, this research accelerates precise corrosion assessment to enable materials science discoveries at scale.

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Kalutotage, Maliesha S. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0009000964408180), Ciardi, Thomas G. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0009000609422666), Tripathi, Pawan K. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000286047744), Huang, Liangyi [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)], Jimenez, Jayvic Cristian [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000223425648), Noell, Philip J. [Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)], Bruckman, Laura S. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000312711072), French, Roger H. [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000261620532), Sehirlioglu, Alp [Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000297084049). 2025-01-13. Automated Image Segmentation and Processing Pipeline Applied to X–Ray Computed Tomography Studies of Pitting Corrosion in Aluminum Wires. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202401699

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