Thesis for the degree of Master of Engineering: Machine Learning for Volumetric Data Analysis of Bread Dough: Meeting the Synchrotron Challenge

This paper focuses on exploring Machine learning methods to automate this process. The main challenge we face is in generating adequate training datasets to train the Machine learning model. Creating training data by manually segmenting real images is very labour-intensive, so we have instead tested methods of automatically creating synthetic training datasets which have the same attributes of the original images. The generated synthetic images are used to train a U-net Model, which is then used to segment the original bread dough images. The trained U-net outperformed the previously used segmentation techniques while taking less manual effort.