Edge detection or gauging?

[Ognee]

Hi,

     I am working on measuring difference in diameter of small millimeter thick tubes when they are dry and when they are wet. I wish to use image analysis of labview and use edge detection to measure the change in diameter from the original state to their moist state. Can anyone please help me out by naming useful tools I can use to do this. I know of a tool called gauging but I do not know how it works? I was thinking of using pixels to measure the difference as these tubes are 1-5 mm thick in their dry (original) state and when they are wet their diameter only increase on scale of 10-100 micrometers. I have enough optical resolution in the images but I am lost on how to use labview. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

[dstrandb]

Hi Ognee,

You could definitely use some functions from the Vision Development Module to find the edges of the tubes, and then use a Caliper function to determine the distance between those edges. I'd recommend taking a look at this tutorial about edge detection using the Vision Development Module. I hope this helps!