How to Cite QEM

If you use QEM in your research, please cite it appropriately.

Citation Format

Journal Articles:

Zhang, Z. et al. (2024). QEM: A Python Package for Quantitative Electron
Microscopy Analysis. Journal of Open Source Software, X(XX), XXXX.
https://doi.org/10.xxxxx/joss.xxxxx

Preprint/ArXiv:

Zhang, Z. et al. (2024). QEM: Quantitative Electron Microscopy Analysis
with Multi-Backend Deep Learning Support. arXiv preprint arXiv:XXXX.XXXX.

Software Citation:

Zhang, Z. et al. (2024). QEM - Quantitative Electron Microscopy (Version 0.1.0)
[Computer software]. https://github.com/zezhong-zhang/qem

BibTeX

For LaTeX users:

@software{qem2024,
  title = {QEM - Quantitative Electron Microscopy},
  author = {Zhang, Zezhong and others},
  year = {2024},
  version = {0.1.0},
  url = {https://github.com/zezhong-zhang/qem},
  institution = {AI for Science Institute}
}

EndNote

For EndNote users:

%0 Computer Program
%T QEM - Quantitative Electron Microscopy
%A Zhang, Zezhong
%D 2024
%C Beijing, China
%I AI for Science Institute
%U https://github.com/zezhong-zhang/qem
%V 0.1.0

Related Work

If you use specific QEM features, please also consider citing:

For the original StatSTEM method:

De Backer, A. et al. (2013). StatSTEM: An efficient approach for accurate
and precise model-based quantification of atomic resolution electron
microscopy images. Ultramicroscopy, 131, 70-91.

For Keras/deep learning aspects:

Chollet, F. et al. (2015). Keras. https://keras.io

For JAX backend (if used):

Bradbury, J. et al. (2018). JAX: composable transformations of
Python+NumPy programs. http://github.com/google/jax

Acknowledgments

The developers would like to acknowledge the contributions from:

• The EMAT research group at University of Antwerp

• The open-source scientific Python community

Example Acknowledgment

“The quantitative STEM analysis was performed using QEM (Zhang et al., 2024), a Python package for atomic-resolution electron microscopy analysis.”

Questions

For citation questions or to report QEM usage in publications: zhangzz@aisi.ac.cn