At Imago we believe the answer is a resounding YES. And it’s more of a “when” than a “will it” kind of thing. Machine learning is here to stay, and only going to continue to improve in the coming months and years.
An Imago machine learning technique…
The Imago approach to ML has 3 easy steps:
1) Train the model by outlining the mineral of interest in your image
2) Generate the model by hooking this information into a machine learning provider
Sulfide Segmentation Example
Watch the 40-second video below to see this in action:
Benefits of this approach
With Imago software, you can do the following easily:
- You can run it on site and on demand
- There is no sample preparation needed
- The cost of running a sample is pennies compared to 1000’s for single QUEMSCAN result
- The fancier we get in the optics and scanning the higher the cost and the resolution that is possible
The bottom line
Because we can run many more samples with the technique described above, accuracy/precision per sample will be lower, but your accuracy/precision for the deposit will be greater.