“…In recent years, the use of computer visionbased systems and artificial intelligence techniques as such, artificial neural network, to estimate tool's lifetime in metal cutting process has been aimed by many researches (ALAJMI et al, 2005;PATRA et al, 2007;CHAO and HWANG, 1997;ALAJMI and ALFARES, 2007;VOLKAN ATLI et al, 2006;GADELMAWLA et al, 2008;INOUE, KONISHI and IMAI, 2009;WANG et al, 2009). Usually, the lifetime is predicted by detecting visible -sometimes very small -degeneration in images of a cutting tool, which is supplied by a typical experiment in the turning process.…”