Segmentation of 3D pore space from CT images using curvilinear skeleton: application to numerical simulation of microbial decomposition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01611v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 13:51:40 GMT
• Title: Segmentation of 3D pore space from CT images using curvilinear skeleton: application to numerical simulation of microbial decomposition
• Authors: Olivier Monga and Zakaria Belghali and Mouad Klai and Lucie Druoton and Dominique Michelucci and Valerie Pot
• Abstract summary: Voxel-based description (up to hundreds millions voxels) of the pore space can be extracted, from grey level 3D CT scanner images, by means of simple image processing tools. Several recent works propose basic analytic volume primitives to define a piece-wise approximation of pore space for numerical simulation of draining, diffusion and microbial decomposition. Here, we study another alternative where pore space is described by means of geometrically relevant connected subsets of voxels (regions) computed from the curvilinear skeleton.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in 3D X-ray Computed Tomographic (CT) sensors have stimulated research efforts to unveil the extremely complex micro-scale processes that control the activity of soil microorganisms. Voxel-based description (up to hundreds millions voxels) of the pore space can be extracted, from grey level 3D CT scanner images, by means of simple image processing tools. Classical methods for numerical simulation of biological dynamics using mesh of voxels, such as Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM), are too much time consuming. Thus, the use of more compact and reliable geometrical representations of pore space can drastically decrease the computational cost of the simulations. Several recent works propose basic analytic volume primitives (e.g. spheres, generalized cylinders, ellipsoids) to define a piece-wise approximation of pore space for numerical simulation of draining, diffusion and microbial decomposition. Such approaches work well but the drawback is that it generates approximation errors. In the present work, we study another alternative where pore space is described by means of geometrically relevant connected subsets of voxels (regions) computed from the curvilinear skeleton. Indeed, many works use the curvilinear skeleton (3D medial axis) for analyzing and partitioning 3D shapes within various domains (medicine, material sciences, petroleum engineering, etc.) but only a few ones in soil sciences. Within the context of soil sciences, most studies dealing with 3D medial axis focus on the determination of pore throats. Here, we segment pore space using curvilinear skeleton in order to achieve numerical simulation of microbial decomposition (including diffusion processes). We validate simulation outputs by comparison with other methods using different pore space geometrical representations (balls, voxels).

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