Automatic detection of limb prominences in 304 Å EUV images

Labrosse, N. and Dalla, S. and Marshall, S. (2010) Automatic detection of limb prominences in 304 Å EUV images. Solar Physics, 262 (2). pp. 449-460. ISSN 0038-0938 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11207-009-9492-9)

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Abstract

A new algorithm for automatic detection of prominences on the solar limb in 304 Å EUV images is presented, and results of its application to SOHO/EIT data discussed. The detection is based on the method of moments combined with a classifier analysis aimed at discriminating between limb prominences, active regions, and the quiet corona. This classifier analysis is based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Using a set of 12 moments of the radial intensity profiles, the algorithm performs well in discriminating between the above three categories of limb structures, with a misclassification rate of 7%. Pixels detected as belonging to a prominence are then used as the starting point to reconstruct the whole prominence by morphological image-processing techniques. It is planned that a catalogue of limb prominences identified in SOHO and STEREO data using this method will be made publicly available to the scientific community.

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Labrosse, N., Dalla, S. and Marshall, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5628;
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