Automating the assessment of sensor quality in the production of thin-film nitrate sensors can yield significant advantages. Currently, the inspection process is extremely time and labor intensive, requiring technicians to manually examine sensors from each batch to determine their
performance. Not only is manually examining sensors costly, it also takes days to conclude the results. It is possible to utilize image based learning approach to entirely automate the quality assessment process by accurately predicting the performance of every sensor; this allows for instant
performance analysis and rapid changes to the fabrication parameters.
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