Unsupervised Reward-Driven Image Segmentation in Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12462v2
• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:44:35 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Reward-Driven Image Segmentation in Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments
• Authors: Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin C. Houston, Gerd Duscher, Sergei V. Kalinin,
• Abstract summary: Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation. Here, we operationalize and benchmark a recently proposed reward-driven optimization workflow for on-the fly image analysis in STEM. This unsupervised approach is much more robust, as it does not rely on human labels and is fully explainable.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation. Currently, segmentation tasks are typically performed using supervised machine learning methods, which require human-labeled data and are sensitive to out-of-distribution drift effects caused by changes in resolution, sampling, or beam shape. Here, we operationalize and benchmark a recently proposed reward-driven optimization workflow for on-the fly image analysis in STEM. This unsupervised approach is much more robust, as it does not rely on human labels and is fully explainable. The explanatory feedback can help the human to verify the decision making and potentially tune the model by selecting the position along the Pareto frontier of reward functions. We establish the timing and effectiveness of this method, demonstrating its capability for real-time performance in high-throughput and dynamic automated STEM experiments. The reward driven approach allows to construct explainable robust analysis workflows and can be generalized to a broad range of image analysis tasks in electron and scanning probe microscopy and chemical imaging.

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