The workflow in Figure creates the automatic and objective evaluation of the elemental composition with standardized starting points based on surface morphology. Figure presents the distribution of values of intensity of each element, extracted from the quantification above and below each K-edge, as a function of distance from the center. Figure collapses this graph of data distribution into a mean with an interval of 99% confidence to avoid confusion by the outliers, especially negative values of intensity that have no physical meaning. The segmentation grouped enough data points into a single metric (distance from the center) to produce a value of intensity with very high statistical confidence, producing intervals that are small enough at some distances not to be visible in the plot.