Image Processing in MATLAB for Materials / Geoscience Applications

This repository contains two instructional MATLAB projects that demonstrate how classical digital image processing can be used to extract quantitative information from materials- and geology-related images.

The projects were developed for a course in Digital Image Processing and focus on real engineering tasks:

1. Fracture Detection in Rocks using Digital Image Processing
2. Analysis of Ooid Iron in Ironstone

Both projects show the full chain: image acquisition → preprocessing → feature extraction → visualization. They can be adapted to metallographic/SEM images from LPBF or corrosion studies.
Source: original course projects in this repository. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

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1. Repository Contents

• Fracture Detection in Rocks using Digital Image Processing/
  MATLAB scripts for:

  • converting to grayscale
  • noise reduction (filtering)
  • edge detection (Sobel/Canny)
  • morphological cleaning (dilation/erosion)
  • overlaying detected fractures on the original rock image

• Analysis of Ooid Iron in Ironstone/
  MATLAB scripts for:

  • contrast enhancement
  • segmentation of ooids / iron-rich regions
  • labeling objects
  • measuring area / count / shape factors
  • exporting basic statistics

• README.md
  (this file)

At the time of writing, the GitHub “About” section is empty; this README describes the actual scope. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}

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2. Goals

• show classical (non–deep-learning) image processing in MATLAB,
• work with realistic, non-perfect material/rock images,
• produce reproducible analysis scripts students can modify,
• make it easy to plug in your own SEM / metallography / LPBF micrographs.

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3. Requirements

• MATLAB (R2021a or newer recommended)
• Image Processing Toolbox
• sample images (provided in the project folders or replace with your own PNG/JPG/TIF)

No GPU is needed — these are classic image-processing pipelines.

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4. How to Run

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/mengedagnaw/Image-processing-MATLAB.git
   cd Image-processing-MATLAB