Quantitative Image Analysis of Porous Materials#

What is PoreSpy? stars#

PoreSpy is a collection of image analysis functions used to extract information from 3D images of porous materials (typically obtained from X-ray tomography). There are other packages that offer generalized image analysis tools (i.e skimage and scipy.ndimage in the Python environment, ImageJ, MatLab’s Image Processing Toolbox), but they all require building up complex scripts or macros to accomplish tasks of specific use to porous media. Porespy includes predefined functions to accomplish many of these routine analyses rapidly and conveniently.

Capabilities#

PoreSpy consists of the following modules:

  • generators: Routines for generating artificial images of porous materials useful for testing and illustration

  • filters: Functions that accept an image and return an altered image

  • metrics: Tools for quantifying properties of images

  • networks: Algorithms and tools for analyzing images as pore networks

  • simulations: Functions for performing physics-based simulations on images

  • tools: Various useful tools for working with images

  • visualization: Helper functions for creating useful views of the image

  • io: Functions for outputting image data in various formats for use in common software

How To Cite#

If you use PoreSpy in a publication, please add the following citation:

Citation

Gostick J, Khan ZA, Tranter TG, Kok MDR, Agnaou M, Sadeghi MA, Jervis R. PoreSpy: A Python Toolkit for Quantitative Analysis of Porous Media Images. Journal of Open Source Software, 2019. doi:10.21105/joss.01296