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In this review, automatic defect inspection algorithms that analyze Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images for Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) are identified, categorized, and discussed. This is a topic of critical importance for the SM…

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Automated surface inspection is an important task in many manufacturing industries and often requires machine learning driven solutions. Supervised approaches, however, can be challenging, since it is often difficult to obtain large amounts…

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Background: Shoulder fractures are often underdiagnosed, especially in emergency and high-volume clinical settings. Studies report up to 10% of such fractures may be missed by radiologists. AI-driven tools offer a scalable way to assist…

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Statistical learning algorithms are finding more and more applications in science and technology. Atomic-scale modeling is no exception, with machine learning becoming commonplace as a tool to predict energy, forces and properties of…

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New production techniques have emerged that have made it possible to produce metal parts with more complex shapes, making the quality control process more difficult. This implies that the visual and superficial analysis has become even more…

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This paper presents a few comprehensive experimental studies for automated Structural Damage Detection (SDD) in extreme events using deep learning methods for processing 2D images. In the first study, a 152-layer Residual network (ResNet)…

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In this work we train a neural network to identify impurities in the experimental images obtained by the scanning tunneling microscope measurements. The neural network is first trained with large number of simulated data and then the…

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Atomic force microscopy (AFM or SPM) imaging is one of the best matches with machine learning (ML) analysis among microscopy techniques. The digital format of AFM images allows for direct utilization in ML algorithms without the need for…

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