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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id>authorea</journal-id>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Authorea</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22541/essoar.169447348.83464468/v1</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>An object-based approach to differentiate pores and microfractures in
petrographic analysis using explainable, supervised machine learning</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-1681-926X</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Jayachandran</surname>
            <given-names>Issac Sujay Anand John</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>Gibbs</surname>
            <given-names>Holly Catherine</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>Laya</surname>
            <given-names>Juan Carlos</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>Qaiser</surname>
            <given-names>Yemna</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-8217-5562</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Khan</surname>
            <given-names>Talha</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>Ansari</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammed Ishaq</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-6335-6923</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Ansari</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammed Yaqoob Mohammed Shoeb</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>Malyah</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-3510-9642</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Alyafei</surname>
            <given-names>Nayef</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>Seers</surname>
            <given-names>thomas</given-names>
          </name>
          <address>
            <institution>Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar</institution>
          </address>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date date-type="preprint" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>11</day>
        <month>9</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.169447348.83464468/v1">This preprint is available at https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.169447348.83464468/v1</self-uri>
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        <kwd>ai</kwd>
        <kwd>binary classification</kwd>
        <kwd>carbonates</kwd>
        <kwd>geology</kwd>
        <kwd>informatics</kwd>
        <kwd>machine learning</kwd>
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        <kwd>pore typing</kwd>
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