Automatic center identification of electron diffraction with multi-scale transformer networks

Ultramicroscopy. 2024 Jan 24;259:113926. doi: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.113926. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSelected area electron diffraction (SAED) is a widely used technique for characterizing the structure and measuring lattice parameters of materials. An autonomous analytic method has become an urgent demand for the large-scale SAED data produced from in-situ experiments. In this work, we realize the automatic processing for center identification with a proposed deep segmentation model named the multi-scale Transformer (MS-Trans) network. This algorithm enables robust segmentation of the central spots by combining a novel gated axial-attention module and multi-scale feature fusion. The proposed MS-Trans model shows high precision and robustness, enabling autonomous processing of SAED patterns without any prior knowledge. The application on in-situ SAED data of the oxidation process of FeNi alloy demonstrates its capability of implementing autonomous quantitative processing. © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.PMID:38310650 | DOI:10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.113926
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