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digital radiography is nowadays increasingly used in welding or fabrication
industry. Compared to film based radiography, digital image can be acquired
with high time efficiency and less radiation. However, noises can easily occur
due to the system complexity, parameters sensitivity and environmental effect
which can indicate low quality image and can result in difficulty for interpretation.
Therefore, a need of an application tool which can improve, analyze and record
the image is becoming an urgent task. In this research, an interactive and user-friendly
application tool was developed containing important components which can be
needed by interpreter or operator to analyze the defects and to record the results.
This tool is divided into three important parts, namely: Image Processing Method
(IPM), Image Quality Measurement (IQM) method and Radiographic Inspection Report
(RIR). This application tool was written by using MATLABs image processing
tool which is further followed by a compilation process using GUIDE toolbox
in MATLAB to build a WINDOWS stand-alone application which allows to be executed
at any computer without the installation of MATLAB.]]>Parks, E.T. and G.F. Williamson,200232339Pardikar, R.J.,20082008Ewert, U., U. Zscherpel and K. Bavendiek,20072007Zscherpel, U., U. Ewert and K. Bavendiek,20072007Hendee, W.R. and E.R. Ritenour,20024th Edn.,Pages: 512Pages: 512Samei, E., M.J. Flynn and D.A. Reimann,199825102113Xie, X., Z. Shi, W. Guo and S. Yao,20092009pp: 15Xiaowei, H., D. Feng, Y. Xiaohui and Z. Hongying,20092009pp: 14Gonzalez, R.C. and R.E. Woods,1992Cai, Z.Q. and T.K.M. Lee,20092009pp: 14Kim, Y.T.,19974318Nadila, P.Z., Y.H.P. Manurung, S.K. Abas, G. Tham, S.A. Halim, S. Mohamad and A.F. Nawawi,20102010Saadi, S., M. Bettayeb and A. Guessoum,201010517525Noori, O., S.M.S. Ahmad and A. Shakil,2011118695