Systems and methods for automatically identifying physical damage in porous media obtained from a subsurface region

A system for automatically identifying physical damage in porous media obtained from a subsurface region, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a storage device coupled to the one or more processors, the storage device configured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
• receive a digital image volume of a sample of the porous media;
• segment the digital image volume into a plurality of test subvolumes;
• estimate, for each of the plurality of test subvolumes, one or more parameters of the test subvolume;
• apply one or more subvolume filters to each of the test subvolumes using the one or more estimated parameters of the test subvolumes to identify one or more of the test subvolumes as containing physical damage;
• filter each of the test subvolumes identified as containing physical damage from the digital image volume to provide a filtered digital image volume of the sample of porous media;
• and
• estimate one or more petrophysical properties of the sample of porous media using the filtered digital image volume.