Patent ID: 11893742
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory computer storage medium comprising instructions for segmenting a Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image of an integrated circuit (IC), the instructions being configured to cause one or more processors to at least perform operations configured to:
receive an SEM image for an IC;
perform filtering and binarization of the SEM image;
extract information associated with filter sizes for the filtering;
extract signatures associated with a distribution for background pixels and foreground pixels of the SEM image;
extract respective distance to mean signatures for the background pixels and the foreground pixels; and
segment the SEM image based at least in part on the filter sizes and the respective distance to mean signatures to generate a segmented image for the IC.