M. Fotouhi
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Three-dimensional (3D) computer-assisted planning is increasingly used for long bone osteotomies. However, creating an optimal pre-surgical plan remains challenging due to the procedure’s many degrees of freedom, leading to high human workload and associated costs. To address this, we present a fast, interactive surgical planning tool that maximises bone contact and minimises bone protrusion, while favouring wedge-type corrections. It employs an evolutionary multi-objective optimisation algorithm to generate a set of Pareto-optimal osteotomy solutions. This allows users to choose an optimal trade-off solution based on clinical experience. The approach proposed in this work generates optimised plans in under fifteen minutes. It features a user interface, integrated in Siemens NX, making it readily integrable into existing pre-operative workflows. Quantitative validation on past cases showed that our tool produced solutions with better or equal objective values compared to manual plans in 10 of 12 cases, with an average increase of bone contact of 3 % (range: –0.7 % to 31 %). A blinded assessment by surgeons and experiments with 3D printed bones confirmed the clinical relevance and feasibility of the automatic plans. Incorporating this automatic osteotomy planning tool can therefore improve the quality of the selected pre-surgical plan, speed up the workflow and increase the volume of cases handled by the 3D lab.
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Three-dimensional (3D) computer-assisted planning is increasingly used for long bone osteotomies. However, creating an optimal pre-surgical plan remains challenging due to the procedure’s many degrees of freedom, leading to high human workload and associated costs. To address this, we present a fast, interactive surgical planning tool that maximises bone contact and minimises bone protrusion, while favouring wedge-type corrections. It employs an evolutionary multi-objective optimisation algorithm to generate a set of Pareto-optimal osteotomy solutions. This allows users to choose an optimal trade-off solution based on clinical experience. The approach proposed in this work generates optimised plans in under fifteen minutes. It features a user interface, integrated in Siemens NX, making it readily integrable into existing pre-operative workflows. Quantitative validation on past cases showed that our tool produced solutions with better or equal objective values compared to manual plans in 10 of 12 cases, with an average increase of bone contact of 3 % (range: –0.7 % to 31 %). A blinded assessment by surgeons and experiments with 3D printed bones confirmed the clinical relevance and feasibility of the automatic plans. Incorporating this automatic osteotomy planning tool can therefore improve the quality of the selected pre-surgical plan, speed up the workflow and increase the volume of cases handled by the 3D lab.
This master's thesis provides knowledge on non-destructive testing of cement and supplementary cementitious materials composition in concrete with a handheld X-ray Fluorescence analyser.
Today, concrete production is responsible for 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Recycling concrete material can directly contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions. This process is costly and time-consuming. A possible solution would be to use a handheld X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer on-site to determine the concrete chemical composition.
No existing research indicates if concrete identification with a handheld X-Ray Fluorescence analyser is possible. This thesis intends to prove that this technique can differentiate concrete with various chemical composition.
Fourteen concrete cubes of fourteen different chemical compositions were analysed to fulfil this objective. The fourteen compositions reflect the concrete design used in the Netherlands. Experimental programs conducted on the concrete revealed the impact of different factors on the results obtained from the handheld-XRF. These factors include measurement time, moisture, surface carbonation, and matrix effect. Each factor impacts various oxides in different proportions, leading to distinct patterns. After investigating their impacts, a protocol was written to test all the mixes. Finally, the reproducibility of the protocol was assessed, and the mixes were tested using the protocol.
The primary outcome of this thesis is proof that twelve of the fourteen mixes were differentiated based on their alumina content. This oxide proved to be less impacted by moisture and surface carbonation than the other oxides. The influence of the different factors on measurements was identified and quantified. These studies also revealed that twenty measurements were sufficient to identify the mixes. The protocol improved the control of the factors but also appeared limited by the concrete matrix.
A possible approach to circumvent this problem would be considering oxides content as thresholds rather than numbers. Determining these thresholds requires testing many samples. Another further study is the possibility of reducing the impact of moisture and surface carbonation on-site.
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Today, concrete production is responsible for 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Recycling concrete material can directly contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions. This process is costly and time-consuming. A possible solution would be to use a handheld X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer on-site to determine the concrete chemical composition.
No existing research indicates if concrete identification with a handheld X-Ray Fluorescence analyser is possible. This thesis intends to prove that this technique can differentiate concrete with various chemical composition.
Fourteen concrete cubes of fourteen different chemical compositions were analysed to fulfil this objective. The fourteen compositions reflect the concrete design used in the Netherlands. Experimental programs conducted on the concrete revealed the impact of different factors on the results obtained from the handheld-XRF. These factors include measurement time, moisture, surface carbonation, and matrix effect. Each factor impacts various oxides in different proportions, leading to distinct patterns. After investigating their impacts, a protocol was written to test all the mixes. Finally, the reproducibility of the protocol was assessed, and the mixes were tested using the protocol.
The primary outcome of this thesis is proof that twelve of the fourteen mixes were differentiated based on their alumina content. This oxide proved to be less impacted by moisture and surface carbonation than the other oxides. The influence of the different factors on measurements was identified and quantified. These studies also revealed that twenty measurements were sufficient to identify the mixes. The protocol improved the control of the factors but also appeared limited by the concrete matrix.
A possible approach to circumvent this problem would be considering oxides content as thresholds rather than numbers. Determining these thresholds requires testing many samples. Another further study is the possibility of reducing the impact of moisture and surface carbonation on-site.
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This master's thesis provides knowledge on non-destructive testing of cement and supplementary cementitious materials composition in concrete with a handheld X-ray Fluorescence analyser.
Today, concrete production is responsible for 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Recycling concrete material can directly contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions. This process is costly and time-consuming. A possible solution would be to use a handheld X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer on-site to determine the concrete chemical composition.
No existing research indicates if concrete identification with a handheld X-Ray Fluorescence analyser is possible. This thesis intends to prove that this technique can differentiate concrete with various chemical composition.
Fourteen concrete cubes of fourteen different chemical compositions were analysed to fulfil this objective. The fourteen compositions reflect the concrete design used in the Netherlands. Experimental programs conducted on the concrete revealed the impact of different factors on the results obtained from the handheld-XRF. These factors include measurement time, moisture, surface carbonation, and matrix effect. Each factor impacts various oxides in different proportions, leading to distinct patterns. After investigating their impacts, a protocol was written to test all the mixes. Finally, the reproducibility of the protocol was assessed, and the mixes were tested using the protocol.
The primary outcome of this thesis is proof that twelve of the fourteen mixes were differentiated based on their alumina content. This oxide proved to be less impacted by moisture and surface carbonation than the other oxides. The influence of the different factors on measurements was identified and quantified. These studies also revealed that twenty measurements were sufficient to identify the mixes. The protocol improved the control of the factors but also appeared limited by the concrete matrix.
A possible approach to circumvent this problem would be considering oxides content as thresholds rather than numbers. Determining these thresholds requires testing many samples. Another further study is the possibility of reducing the impact of moisture and surface carbonation on-site.
Today, concrete production is responsible for 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Recycling concrete material can directly contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions. This process is costly and time-consuming. A possible solution would be to use a handheld X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer on-site to determine the concrete chemical composition.
No existing research indicates if concrete identification with a handheld X-Ray Fluorescence analyser is possible. This thesis intends to prove that this technique can differentiate concrete with various chemical composition.
Fourteen concrete cubes of fourteen different chemical compositions were analysed to fulfil this objective. The fourteen compositions reflect the concrete design used in the Netherlands. Experimental programs conducted on the concrete revealed the impact of different factors on the results obtained from the handheld-XRF. These factors include measurement time, moisture, surface carbonation, and matrix effect. Each factor impacts various oxides in different proportions, leading to distinct patterns. After investigating their impacts, a protocol was written to test all the mixes. Finally, the reproducibility of the protocol was assessed, and the mixes were tested using the protocol.
The primary outcome of this thesis is proof that twelve of the fourteen mixes were differentiated based on their alumina content. This oxide proved to be less impacted by moisture and surface carbonation than the other oxides. The influence of the different factors on measurements was identified and quantified. These studies also revealed that twenty measurements were sufficient to identify the mixes. The protocol improved the control of the factors but also appeared limited by the concrete matrix.
A possible approach to circumvent this problem would be considering oxides content as thresholds rather than numbers. Determining these thresholds requires testing many samples. Another further study is the possibility of reducing the impact of moisture and surface carbonation on-site.
Automated monitoring of corrosion on piling sheets
A model test to understand the possibilities for asset managers
Master thesis
(2022)
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R.H. Maskam, A. Amiri Simkooei, G.A. van Nederveen, M. Fotouhi, Maarten Visser
Various tasks in the construction industry are tedious due to the high amount of repetition or time-consuming nature. In recent years Deep Learning within computer vision has made it possible to automate various tasks using images. The Hoofdvaarweg Lemmer-Delfzijl has been assessed using images and a pointcloud. The images were being worked with two employees over a month. This is time-consuming and there are a lot of images to go through.
Our project statement is thus: Develop a tool using computer vision techniques to reliably detect problematic corrosion on piling sheet within 4-5 months to understand what the state is of this topic for asset managers.
We first start with an analysis in which we looked at the existing the literature, the data, the existing methods and how Witteveen+Bos is assessing the images. We then set the requirements to which the algorithm should adhere to. Literature study has shown that most models, with data-sets of above 3000 images, achieve above 90% for both accuracy and mean average precision. Afterwards we start writing the algorithm and model testing various model structures as part of the synthesis procedure. The models are variating in structures, filters, depth, and augmentation.
We created a classifier, of four and six classes, and an object detection algorithm and conducted various evaluation techniques. The four-class classifier performed better than the six-class classifier. This could be due to the six-class classifier being made up of less data, classes that are vague, parts of the data showing imbalance problems.
An object detection algorithm was created to detect dimensional features to estimate the height above water and distance of the bumps. To convert the pixel distance to actual distance, we trained the model to detect a reference object. The object detector performed well, but did not meet the requirements we set. The dimension estimation provided can only provide a rough estimation. This may be the result of not every image, in the training set, contained a reference object. Creating the data-set was a tedious task and our data-set with two classes, took around eight hours to finish training.
We can conclude that for image classification, the structure of the model and the trainable parameters play a role. The object detector can count elements, but the predicted bounding box is sometimes larger than expected. Some recommendations are to increase data and classes. A robust feasibility for Witteveen+Bos regarding AI. Repurposing the algorithm for progress monitoring and exploring the interoperability between software relevant for the manager.
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Our project statement is thus: Develop a tool using computer vision techniques to reliably detect problematic corrosion on piling sheet within 4-5 months to understand what the state is of this topic for asset managers.
We first start with an analysis in which we looked at the existing the literature, the data, the existing methods and how Witteveen+Bos is assessing the images. We then set the requirements to which the algorithm should adhere to. Literature study has shown that most models, with data-sets of above 3000 images, achieve above 90% for both accuracy and mean average precision. Afterwards we start writing the algorithm and model testing various model structures as part of the synthesis procedure. The models are variating in structures, filters, depth, and augmentation.
We created a classifier, of four and six classes, and an object detection algorithm and conducted various evaluation techniques. The four-class classifier performed better than the six-class classifier. This could be due to the six-class classifier being made up of less data, classes that are vague, parts of the data showing imbalance problems.
An object detection algorithm was created to detect dimensional features to estimate the height above water and distance of the bumps. To convert the pixel distance to actual distance, we trained the model to detect a reference object. The object detector performed well, but did not meet the requirements we set. The dimension estimation provided can only provide a rough estimation. This may be the result of not every image, in the training set, contained a reference object. Creating the data-set was a tedious task and our data-set with two classes, took around eight hours to finish training.
We can conclude that for image classification, the structure of the model and the trainable parameters play a role. The object detector can count elements, but the predicted bounding box is sometimes larger than expected. Some recommendations are to increase data and classes. A robust feasibility for Witteveen+Bos regarding AI. Repurposing the algorithm for progress monitoring and exploring the interoperability between software relevant for the manager.
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Various tasks in the construction industry are tedious due to the high amount of repetition or time-consuming nature. In recent years Deep Learning within computer vision has made it possible to automate various tasks using images. The Hoofdvaarweg Lemmer-Delfzijl has been assessed using images and a pointcloud. The images were being worked with two employees over a month. This is time-consuming and there are a lot of images to go through.
Our project statement is thus: Develop a tool using computer vision techniques to reliably detect problematic corrosion on piling sheet within 4-5 months to understand what the state is of this topic for asset managers.
We first start with an analysis in which we looked at the existing the literature, the data, the existing methods and how Witteveen+Bos is assessing the images. We then set the requirements to which the algorithm should adhere to. Literature study has shown that most models, with data-sets of above 3000 images, achieve above 90% for both accuracy and mean average precision. Afterwards we start writing the algorithm and model testing various model structures as part of the synthesis procedure. The models are variating in structures, filters, depth, and augmentation.
We created a classifier, of four and six classes, and an object detection algorithm and conducted various evaluation techniques. The four-class classifier performed better than the six-class classifier. This could be due to the six-class classifier being made up of less data, classes that are vague, parts of the data showing imbalance problems.
An object detection algorithm was created to detect dimensional features to estimate the height above water and distance of the bumps. To convert the pixel distance to actual distance, we trained the model to detect a reference object. The object detector performed well, but did not meet the requirements we set. The dimension estimation provided can only provide a rough estimation. This may be the result of not every image, in the training set, contained a reference object. Creating the data-set was a tedious task and our data-set with two classes, took around eight hours to finish training.
We can conclude that for image classification, the structure of the model and the trainable parameters play a role. The object detector can count elements, but the predicted bounding box is sometimes larger than expected. Some recommendations are to increase data and classes. A robust feasibility for Witteveen+Bos regarding AI. Repurposing the algorithm for progress monitoring and exploring the interoperability between software relevant for the manager.
Our project statement is thus: Develop a tool using computer vision techniques to reliably detect problematic corrosion on piling sheet within 4-5 months to understand what the state is of this topic for asset managers.
We first start with an analysis in which we looked at the existing the literature, the data, the existing methods and how Witteveen+Bos is assessing the images. We then set the requirements to which the algorithm should adhere to. Literature study has shown that most models, with data-sets of above 3000 images, achieve above 90% for both accuracy and mean average precision. Afterwards we start writing the algorithm and model testing various model structures as part of the synthesis procedure. The models are variating in structures, filters, depth, and augmentation.
We created a classifier, of four and six classes, and an object detection algorithm and conducted various evaluation techniques. The four-class classifier performed better than the six-class classifier. This could be due to the six-class classifier being made up of less data, classes that are vague, parts of the data showing imbalance problems.
An object detection algorithm was created to detect dimensional features to estimate the height above water and distance of the bumps. To convert the pixel distance to actual distance, we trained the model to detect a reference object. The object detector performed well, but did not meet the requirements we set. The dimension estimation provided can only provide a rough estimation. This may be the result of not every image, in the training set, contained a reference object. Creating the data-set was a tedious task and our data-set with two classes, took around eight hours to finish training.
We can conclude that for image classification, the structure of the model and the trainable parameters play a role. The object detector can count elements, but the predicted bounding box is sometimes larger than expected. Some recommendations are to increase data and classes. A robust feasibility for Witteveen+Bos regarding AI. Repurposing the algorithm for progress monitoring and exploring the interoperability between software relevant for the manager.