Optimization of Curvi-Linear Tracing Applied to Solar Physics and Biophysics

Abstract

We developed an automated pattern recognition code that is particularly well suited to extract one-dimensional curvi-linear features from two-dimensional digital images. A former version of this {\sl Oriented Coronal CUrved Loop Tracing (OCCULT)} code was applied to spacecraft images of magnetic loops in the solar corona, recorded with the NASA spacecraft {\sl Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE)} in extreme ultra-violet wavelengths. Here we apply an advanced version of this code ({\sl OCCULT-2}) also to similar images from the {\sl Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)}, to chromospheric H-$\alpha$ images obtained with the {\sl Swedish Solar Telescope (SST)}, and to microscopy images of microtubule filaments in live cells in biophysics. We provide a full analytical description of the code, optimize the control parameters, and compare the automated tracing with visual/manual methods. The traced structures differ by up to 16 orders of magnitude in size, which demonstrates the universality of the tracing algorithm.

Entropy, Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing in Heliospheric Physics, (in press)

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