Touch-up Workspace

introduction the touch up workspace is a tool developed for amics to assist in removing measurement artifacts as well as resolving mixed and boundary phases this feature allows the user to sort the grain and particle layers of data, using material grain size and bse levels to isolate the target mineral the touch up workspace then allows users to adjust the filtered grains/particle into another material phase usage guide step by step instructions the touch up workplace can be accessed from the top tab in amics process amics process, and clicking on the touch up tab this will then update the main interface window as below note! the touch up panel can be operated using the different data levels of amics, i e segment, grain, and particle (referred to as objects) this can be adjusted using the normal interface in the top menu bar however, changing between data layers will reset any filters that may have been set from this window, the main interface with the touch up will be through filter parameters and operations panel on the left hand side in most cases when first selecting this panel the unsupported layer will appear, but this can be resolved once the first filter has been set to filter out objects the filter parameter panel is used to adjust the size, bse, and, hosted mineral filters, as well as select which material the filtered material much contain the first filter item is having material , which can be used to filter based on what material is contained in the objects the option available is using any material , unknown , or a select material (from material ) each option has different usage, with the any material, allowing users to include all materials for follow up filtering by size or bse this is a useful option if the aim is to remove objects below or above a given size or bse range, or this can also be used to find all grains which are hosted by a certain material once the input material has been selected with the having material option, the following two filters will be for the area of the objects the first will set a lower area threshold for the area to include in the filter, while the second will set an upper threshold following the area filter, the next two filter options will select the bse range of material to include the final filter will select segments/grains which are hosted in a given material note! though materials from the primary or group list can be used to be included in the filtering process, this is not the case when selecting the hosting material for the hosting material, only species from the primary material list can be selected once all the filter parameters have been selected, click the filter! the button will execute the filtering options this will also update the visualization window with the result of the filtering the updated window will now contain two sections, an upper and lower panel, with the upper panel containing all the objects matching the selected filtering parameters while the lower panel will contain all the remaining objects which failed the filtering the numerical results of the filtering are also shown in the top right corner of each panel the results will show the number of objects which either passed or failed on the left, depending on the upper or lower panel, respectively and the total number of objects on the right hand side, with the relative percent of objects which have passed or failed filtration the filter parameters can then be adjusted until the required objects have passed the objects which pass the filter can then processing using different tools available in the operations panel the operations panel has four functions/options for processing the filtered objects, with the key being the first row, turn into mineral this first option allows the user to redefine the material classificaition assigned to each filtered object aside from each primary material spectra from the current material classification list, users can also reassign filtered objects as background, pores, unxrayed, shadow or even unknown the remaining three rows, step name, apply quick action and add step!, do not directly affect the reassignment operations, but is critical to complete any touch up process the first, step name, is required for amics to save the touch up step and this row supplies a unique name for this touch up step which will be linked to the current material classification list following provision of the unique name for the touch up step, the user can then direcly apply the step on the current database by checking the applying quick action check box finally, once the filter parameters and operations panel setting have been set as required, the touch up process can then be completed by pressing the "add step!" button this will both apply the filter and user defined reassignment, as well as save this touch up process to the current material classificaiton method, as requested examples of feature access requirements a valid license with amics offline or amics online reviewer status comments