A central premise of autonomous scientific imaging is that smarter navigation, whether Bayesian, RL-based, or otherwise adaptive, is the principal lever for sample-efficient acquisition. We present evidence to the contrary in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), an atomic-resolution imaging modality whose every measurement deposits damaging electron dose.
arXiv:2606. 09419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing materials characterization, yet most applications in electron microscopy rely solely on image contrast, overlooking the chemical and experimental context that shapes image formation.
By Jiadong Dan, Cheng Zhang, Leyi Loh, Ivan Verzhbitskiy, Yuan Chen, Goki Eda, Michel Bosman, N. Duane Loh
arXiv:2606. 10547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) tomography in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) enables 3D compositional and elemental mapping at the nanoscale, but its use is limited by restricted tilt ranges and low-dose conditions required to avoid beam damage.
By Daniel del Pozo Bueno, Serge Brosset, Theo Monniez, Gabriele Navarro, Philippe Ciuciu, Zineb Saghi
arXiv:2607. 10388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming electron microscopy by enabling quantitative analysis of increasingly large and complex datasets for nanoparticle characterization.
By Evropi Toulkeridou, Jiafei Li, Leonardo Lari, Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos
arXiv:2505. 12650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reconstructing atomistic crystal structures from a single noisy STEM projection is an ill-posed inverse problem: multiple lattices can explain similar contrast, and purely feed-forward models cannot verify physical validity.
By Yaotian Yang, Yiwen Tang, Yizhe Chen, Xiao Chen, Jiangjie Qiu, Hao Xiong, Haoyu Yin, Zhiyao Luo, Yifei Zhang, Sijia Tao, Wentao Li, Qinghua Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bin Zhao, Xiaonan Wang, Fei Wei
arXiv:2603. 29135v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous experimental systems are increasingly used in materials research to accelerate scientific discovery, but their performance is often limited by low-quality, noisy data.
By Jawad Chowdhury, Ganesh Narasimha, Jan-Chi Yang, Yongtao Liu, Rama Vasudevan
arXiv:2607. 20871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling semiconductor quantum dot arrays toward fault-tolerant quantum computing requires efficient tuneup of spin qubits, a process that depends on the analysis of charge stability maps (CSMs) and remains largely manual.
By Hyma Vallabhapurapu, Marco Candido, Krishna Choudhary, Paul Steinacker, Ensar Vahapoglu, Chris Escott, Wee Han Lim, Andre Saraiva, Nard Dumoulin Stuyck, MengKe Feng
arXiv:2607. 10789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational imaging, which recovers hidden signals from indirect, noisy measurements, underpins quantitative discovery across scientific disciplines, yet building a correct reconstruction pipeline demands deep domain expertise and remains laborious even for domain scientists.
By Siyi Chen, Jiahe Ying, Yixuan Jia, Yuxuan Gu, Enze Ye, Weimin Bai, Zhijun Zeng, Shaochi Ren, Binhong Gao, Yubing Li, Tianhan Zhang, He Sun
arXiv:2607. 11941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computed tomography (CT) is a critical imaging modality for clinical diagnosis, but reducing radiation dose inevitably introduces severe noise and structured artifacts that degrade image quality.
By Md Imam Ahasan, Guangchao Yang, A F M Abdun Noor, Kah Ong Michael Goh, S. M. Hasan Mahmud, Md Mahfuzur Rahman
arXiv:2607. 03761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computed Tomography (CT) is indispensable in clinical diagnostics, yet minimizing radiation dose without compromising image quality remains a critical challenge.
By Shunta Nonaga, Koji Tabata, Junya Honda, Hiroyuki Kudo, Wataru Yashiro, Tamiki Komatsuzaki
arXiv:2511. 22246v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised learning has been widely applied to various tasks in particle physics.
By Xing-Jian Lv, De-Xing Miao, Zi-Jun Xu, Jian-Chun Wang
arXiv:2603. 13377v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representation learning has driven major advances in natural image analysis by enabling models to acquire high-level semantic features.
By Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell, Auguste Genovesio