Artefact removal from micrographs with deep learning based inpainting
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Author(s)
Squires, Isaac
Dahari, Amir
Cooper, Samuel J
Kench, Steve
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Imaging is critical to the characterisation of materials. However, even with careful sample preparation and microscope calibration, imaging techniques can contain defects and unwanted artefacts. This is particularly problematic for applications where the micrograph is to be used for simulation or feature analysis, as artefacts are likely to lead to inaccurate results. Microstructural inpainting is a method to alleviate this problem by replacing artefacts with synthetic microstructure with matching boundaries. In this paper we introduce two methods that use generative adversarial networks to generate contiguous inpainted regions of arbitrary shape and size by learning the microstructural distribution from the unoccluded data. We find that one benefits from high speed and simplicity, whilst the other gives smoother boundaries at the inpainting border. We also describe an open-access graphical user interface that allows users to utilise these machine learning methods in a ‘no-code’ environment.
Date Issued
2023-04-01
Date Acceptance
2023-02-02
Citation
Digital Discovery, 2023, 2 (2), pp.316-326
ISSN
2635-098X
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry
Start Page
316
End Page
326
Journal / Book Title
Digital Discovery
Volume
2
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
License URL
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/DD/D2DD00120A.1039/d2dd00120a
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-02-03