Correlating electrochemical stimulus to structural change in liquid electron microscopy videos using the structural dissimilarity metric

In-situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LCTEM) with electrical biasing capabilities has emerged as an invaluable tool for directly imaging electrode processes with high temporal and spatial resolution. However, accurately quantifying structural changes that occur on the electrode and s...

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Published in:	Ultramicroscopy Vol. 257; p. 113894
Main Authors:	Mulvey, Justin T, Iyer, Katen P, Ortega, Tomàs, Merham, Jovany G, Pivak, Yevheniy, Sun, Hongyu, Hochbaum, Allon I, Patterson, Joseph P
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands 01-03-2024
Subjects:	ImageJ Electrochemistry Quantitative image analysis Structural dissimilarity Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy Structural similarity
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Summary:	In-situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LCTEM) with electrical biasing capabilities has emerged as an invaluable tool for directly imaging electrode processes with high temporal and spatial resolution. However, accurately quantifying structural changes that occur on the electrode and subsequently correlating them to the applied stimulus remains challenging. Here, we present structural dissimilarity (DSSIM) analysis as segmentation-free video processing algorithm for locally detecting and quantifying structural change occurring in LCTEM videos. In this study, DSSIM analysis is applied to two in-situ LCTEM videos to demonstrate how to implement this algorithm and interpret the results. We show DSSIM analysis can be used as a visualization tool for qualitative data analysis by highlighting structural changes which are easily missed when viewing the raw data. Furthermore, we demonstrate how DSSIM analysis can serve as a quantitative metric and efficiently convert 3-dimensional microscopy videos to 1-dimenional plots which makes it easy to interpret and compare events occurring at different timepoints in a video. In the analyses presented here, DSSIM is used to directly correlate the magnitude and temporal scale of structural change to the features of the applied electrical bias. ImageJ, Python, and MATLAB programs, including a user-friendly interface and accompanying documentation, are published alongside this manuscript to make DSSIM analysis easily accessible to the scientific community.
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ISSN:	0304-3991 1879-2723
DOI:	10.1016/j.ultramic.2023.113894