Table 1 ICC-based metric for artificially generated image with varied white noise level from 10 dB till 0.1dB.

From: Wavelet-based information theory in quantitative assessment of AFM images’ quality

Images shown in Fig. 5

\(\textrm{ICC}_{\textrm{2DFFT}}\)

\(\frac{\tilde{\delta }_{\textrm{2DFFT}}}{ICC_{\textrm{2DFFT}}}\)

\(\textrm{ICC}_{\textrm{WPM}}\)

\(\frac{\tilde{\delta }_{\textrm{WMP}}}{ICC_{\textrm{WMP}}}\)

\(\textrm{ICC}_{\psi _{\textrm{M}}}\)

\(\frac{\tilde{\delta }_{\psi _{\textrm{M}}}}{ICC_{\psi _{\textrm{M}}}}\)

\(\textrm{ICC}_{\psi _{\textrm{F}}}\)

\(\frac{\tilde{\delta }_{\psi _{\textrm{F}}}}{ICC_{\psi _{\textrm{F}}}}\)

Unit

(b/μm)

(%)

(b/μm)

(b/μm)

(b/μm)

(%)

(b/μm)

(%)

Pure image (reference)

3.18

0.41

3.20

0.34

3.84

0.26

3.95

0.25

Image with 10 dB

2.94

0.44

2.95

0.37

3.56

0.28

3.67

0.27

Image with 1 dB

1.95

0.62

1.99

0.48

2.77

0.35

2.93

0.32

Image with 0.1 dB

0.38

1.4

0.69

0.62

0.86

0.53

0.60

0.62