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Data from: A reusable pipeline for large-scale fiber segmentation on unidirectional fiber beds using fully convolutional neural networks

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Abstract

Fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites are advanced materials resistant to high temperatures, with application to aerospace engineering. Their analysis depends on the detection of embedded fibers, with semi-supervised techniques usually employed to separate fibers within the fiber beds. Here we present an open computational pipeline to detect fibers in ex-situ X-ray computed tomography fiber beds. To separate the fibers in these samples, we tested four different architectures of fully convolutional neural networks. When comparing our neural network approach to a semi-supervised one, we obtained Dice and Matthews coefficients greater than 92.28 ± 9.65%, reaching up to 98.42 ± 0.03%, showing that the network results are close to the human-supervised ones in these fiber beds, in some cases separating fibers that human-curated algorithms could not find. The software we generated in this project is open source, released under a permissible license, and can be adapted and re-used in other domains. Here you find the data resulting from this study.