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A machine learning approach to tracking and characterizing planar or near planar fluid flow from motion history images

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posted on 2019-03-26, 11:42 authored by Mahendra Gooroochurn, David KerrDavid Kerr, Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf
This paper presents the design of a Machine Vision technique to segment planar or near-planar fluid flow, which uses artificial neural networks to characterize fluid flow in determining rate of flow and source of the fluid, which can be applied in various areas, e.g. characterizing fluid flow in surface irrigation from aerial pictures, in leakage detection and in surgical robotics for characterizing blood flow over an operative site. When applied to the latter, the outcome enables to assess bleeding severity and find the source of the bleeding. Based on its importance in assessing injuries in general and from a medical perspective in directing the course of surgery, fluid flow assessment is deemed to be a desirable addition to a surgical robot’s capabilities. The results from tests on simulated fluid flows obtained from a test rig show that the proposed methods can contribute to an automated characterization of fluid flow, which in the presence of several fluid flow sources can be achieved by tracking the flows, determining the locations of the sources and their relative severities, with execution times suitable for real-time operation.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Citation

GOOROOCHURN, M., KERR, D. and BOUAZZA-MAROUF, K., 2019. A machine learning approach to tracking and characterizing planar or near planar fluid flow from motion history images. Presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Machines (ICIM 2019), Bathinda, India, 15-16 March 2019.

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2019-02-22

Language

  • en

Location

Bathinda, India

Event dates

15th March 2019 - 16th March 2019