1. A method of combinatorial processing, comprising:
receiving a silicon based solar substrate comprising site isolated regions wherein a partially completed solar cell is defined within each of the regions;
processing the regions on the silicon based solar substrate in a site-isolated manner through a vacuum based deposition process, wherein at least two of the regions are processed differently from one another; and
completing the partially completed solar cell.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the regions on the substrate in the site-isolated manner, wherein at least two of the regions are processed differently from one another comprises varying a process condition.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the regions on the substrate in the site-isolated manner, wherein at least two of the regions are processed differently from one another comprises varying a deposition of a thin film.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein varying the deposition of the thin film comprises depositing the thin film by physical vapor deposition.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein varying the deposition of the thin film comprises depositing the thin film by chemical vapor deposition.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein completing the partially completed solar cell comprises processing the substrate in a site-isolated manner wherein at least two of the regions are processed differently.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein completing the partially completed solar cell comprises processing the substrate in a conventional manner.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing is locally uniform within the regions and the regions are isolated from other regions on the substrate during the processing.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising additional processing operations, wherein a portion of the operations are performed in a combinatorial manner and other operations are performed in a conventional manner.
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising evaluating performance of each of the-solar cells to determine the effect of modifying the partially completed solar cell.
11. A method of combinatorial processing, comprising:
receiving a silicon based solar substrate comprising a plurality of site-isolated regions wherein a partially completed solar cell is defined within the plurality of site-isolated regions;
depositing a thin-film in a site-isolated manner by a vacuum based physical vapor deposition, wherein the thin film is varied in at least two of the site-isolated regions; and
performing electrical tests on the plurality of solar cells to evaluate an effect of the varied thin film deposition on the plurality of solar cells.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the physical vapor deposition comprises atomic layer deposition.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the thin film is varied by varying a process condition of the physical vapor deposition.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein the thin film is varied by varying a process sequence of the physical vapor deposition.
15. The method of claim 11, wherein completing the plurality of solar cells comprises at least one conventional processing step.
16. The method of claim 11, wherein receiving the substrate comprises receiving a 300 mm semiconductor wafer.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for segmenting a structure of interest, comprising:
segmenting a surface of a body region that includes the structure of interest, wherein the segmentation shows an incomplete border between the structure of interest and tissue surrounding the structure of interest; and
interpolating missing parts of the incomplete border so that a complete border between the structure of interest and the surrounding tissue can be realized.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the structure of interest is one of a polyp, lung nodule, bronchi lesion or pulmonary emboli.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of interpolating, comprises:
transforming the surface of the structure of interest into a transformed coordinate space;
computing a normalization factor for each radius in the transformed coordinate space;
determining, for each empty voxels in the transformed coordinate space, neighboring voxels in vertical and horizontal directions;
spanning a section between four voxel neighbors and solving a triangular relationship therebetween;
computing an interpolating radius value over empty points of the spanning section in the horizontal and vertical directions;
determining final interpolated radii values of the empty points of the spanning section by taking an average of the computed interpolating radii in the horizontal and vertical directions; and
mapping the final interpolated radii values back to an original coordinate space of the structure of interest.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the original coordinate space is Cartesian.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein the surface of the structure of interest is transformed into spherical or ellipsoidal coordinates.
6. The method of claim 3, wherein the surface of the structure of interest is transformed by using a center mass of the structure of interest as the origin for the transformation.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the structure of interest is acquired by using one of a computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging technique.
8. A system for segmenting a structure of interest, comprising:
a memory device for storing a program;
a processor in communication with the memory device, the processor operative with the program to:
segment a surface of a body region that includes the structure of interest, wherein the segmentation shows an incomplete border between the structure of interest and tissue surrounding the structure of interest; and
interpolate missing parts of the incomplete border so that a complete border between the structure of interest and the surrounding tissue can be realized.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the structure of interest is one of a polyp, lung nodule, bronchi lesion or pulmonary emboli.
10. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor is further operative with the program code when interpolating to:
transform the surface of the structure of interest into a transformed coordinate space;
compute a normalization factor for each radius in the transformed coordinate space;
determine, for each empty voxel in the transformed coordinate space, neighboring voxels in vertical and horizontal directions;
span a section between four voxel neighbors and solve a triangular relationship therebetween;
compute an interpolating radius value over empty points of the spanning section in the horizontal and vertical directions;
determine final interpolated radii values of the empty points of the spanning section by taking an average of the computed interpolating radii in the horizontal and vertical directions; and
map the final interpolated radii values back to an original coordinate space of the structure of interest.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the original coordinate space is Cartesian.
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface of the structure of interest is transformed into spherical or ellipsoidal coordinates.
13. The system of claim 10, wherein the surface of the structure of interest is transformed by using a center mass of the structure of interest as the origin for the transformation.
14. The system of claim 8, wherein the structure of interest is acquired by one of a computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging device.
15. A computer readable medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a processor to perform method steps for segmenting a structure of interest, the method steps comprising:
segmenting a surface of a body region that includes the structure of interest, wherein the segmentation shows an incomplete border between the structure of interest and tissue surrounding the structure of interest; and
interpolating missing parts of the incomplete border so that a complete border between the structure of interest and the surrounding tissue can be realized.
16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the step of interpolating, comprises:
transforming the surface of the structure of interest into a transformed coordinate space;
computing a normalization factor for each radius in the transformed coordinate space;
determining, for each empty voxel in the transformed coordinate space, neighboring voxels in vertical and horizontal directions;
spanning a section between four voxel neighbors and solving a triangular relationship therebetween;
computing an interpolating radius value over empty points of the spanning section in the horizontal and vertical directions;
determining final interpolated radii values of the empty points of the spanning section by taking an average of the computed interpolating radii in the horizontal and vertical directions; and
mapping the final interpolated radii values back to an original coordinate space of the structure of interest.