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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2021
Imec Vzw, Leuven, BE;
Bappaditya Dey, Heverlee, BE;
Sandip Halder, Bierbeek, BE;
Gouri Sankar Kar, Leuven, BE;
Victor M. Blanco, Leefdaal, BE;
Senthil Srinivasan Shanmugam Vadakupudhu Palayam, Blanden, BE;
IMEC VZW, Leuven, BE;
Abstract
The disclosure relates generally to image processing. For example, the invention relates to a method and a device for de-noising an electron microscope (EM) image. The method includes the act of selecting a patch of the EM image, wherein the patch comprises a plurality of pixels, wherein the following acts are performed on the patch: i) replacing the value of one pixel, for example of a center pixel, of the patch with the value of a different, for example randomly selected, pixel from the same EM image; ii) determining a de-noised value for the one pixel based on the values of the other pixels in the patch; and iii) replacing the value of the one pixel with the determined de-noised value.