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Intelligent Identification of Grading Electrode Scale in Converter Valve Water-Cooling Systems Using X-Ray Images Cover

Intelligent Identification of Grading Electrode Scale in Converter Valve Water-Cooling Systems Using X-Ray Images

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|Oct 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Dataset and labels. The labels include the location of the electrodes, scaling or not, and electrodes' diameters (A) no scaling; (B) scaling.

Figure 2:

Electrode detection and measurement model. The model is based on YOLOv8_OBB, and the diameter regression is added as the red part shows. FPN, feature pyramid network.

Figure 3:

Flowchart of the scaling severity assessment.

Table 1:

Corrected scaling severity rule

T́/(mm)αLevel
T́ < 0.1α < 0.9None I
α ≥ 0.9
0.1 ≤ T́ < 0.3α < 0.7None II
α ≥ 0.7
0.3 ≤ T́ < 0.8α < 0.7None III
α ≥ 0.7
T́ ≥ 0.8α < 0.7None IV
α ≥ 0.7
Figure 4.

Training process. Precision refers to the accuracy of scale identification. Recall represents the accuracy on the fouling samples. mAPs are used to evaluate the accuracy of electrode position boxes.

Figure 5:

Example of diameter test (A) Caliper (B) X-ray (C) CNN.

Table 2:

Diameter test results of 10 samples (mm)

SampleCaliperX-rayCNNΔ1Δ2Δ3
12.372.312.360.06−0.05−0.01
22.012.112.08−0.10.030.07
32.182.222.21−0.040.010.03
42.172.152.190.02−0.040.02
52.122.0220.10.02−0.12
62.342.312.240.030.07−0.1
72.482.412.370.070.04−0.11
82.572.532.460.040.07−0.11
92.342.422.41−0.080.010.07
102.402.212.210.190−0.19
Average---0.0290.016−0.045
Table 3:

Comparison using different object detection models

ModelmAP50(B)PrecisionRecall
YOLOv8_OBB0.9820.9850.936
YOLOv5_OBB0.5660.5810.536
FasterR-CNN0.7840.7580.713
MaskR-CNN0.8810.8110.771
EfficientDet0.9150.9280.871
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 7, 2025
Published on: Oct 22, 2026
Published by: International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: Volume open

© 2026 Xin Zheng, Gong Cheng, Shuyuan Yuan, Xiaosheng Cheng, Pingwei Li, published by International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
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