A brief discussion about image quality and SEM methods for quantitative fractography of polymer composites

LRO Hein, KA Campos, P Caltabiano, KG Kostov - Scanning, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… For VP-SEM or LV-SEM, fractal dimension and entropy values did not present any evident
relation with image quality parameters, but the resolution must be optimized with imaging

Do SEII Electrons Really Degrade SEM Image Quality?

GH Bernstein, AD Carter, DC Joy - Scanning: The Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… blocked from contributing to the image. In this article, we show that this approach leads to
noticeably darker background intensity and improved contrast in SEM images. We suggest that …

Improving SEM image quality using pixel super resolution technique

M Lee, J Cantone, J Xu, L Sun… - … , Inspection, and Process …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
SEM image quality while minimizing the time-dependent drift distortion. The exact drift/displacement
between multiple images … between images. Here, we experimentally quantify the CD-…

SEM image analysis for quality control of nanoparticles

SK Alexander, R Azencott, BG Bodmann… - … Analysis of Images and …, 2009 - Springer
… We present new algorithms for SEM images analysis focused on quality control of porous …
24bit SEM images typically of size 1024×768. Each nanoparticle occupies an image surface of …

SEM image quality enhancement: an unsupervised deep learning approach

L Yu, W Zhou, L Pu, W Fang - Metrology, Inspection, and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… Instead of using clean images for supervised training, we propose an unsupervised machine
learning-based image quality enhancement framework (uMLIQE) for SEM images. Such a …

Image quality evaluation for FIB‐SEM images

D Roldán, C Redenbach, K Schladitz… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… The indices allow for quick and efficient evaluation of FIB-SEM images and coincide well …
and real FIB-SEM image data used, define our indices for image quality evaluation, and …

Image quality enhancement of a CD-SEM image using conditional generative adversarial networks

Y Midoh, K Nakamae - Metrology, Inspection, and Process …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… to improve the quality (high resolution and high SNR) of a low-quality SEM image using the
… The first approach uses deep learning to reduce SEM noise or improve image quality and …

The influence of environment temperature on SEM image quality

L Chen, J Liu - Measurement Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
… Resolution and SNR are the two parameters that quantify the SEM image quality. In this
paper, the influence of the environment temperature on the SEM image quality was analyzed by …

SEM image quality assessment based on intuitive morphology and deep semantic features

H Wang, S Li, J Ding, S Li, L Dong, Z Lu - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of SEM images, we propose a texture and semantic IQA (TSIQA) method for SEM images
The quality assessment experiments on SEM image datasets show that compared with the …

[HTML][HTML] Microscopy methods for biofilm imaging: focus on SEM and VP-SEM pros and cons

M Relucenti, G Familiari, O Donfrancesco, M Taurino… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Good quality and very informative pictures were … image quality dropped significantly due
to signal-to-noise ratio lowering. The resolution of VP-SEM images was lower than the SEM