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Projects/Programs

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AI for Live Mouse Cancer Progression Detection

Ongoing
Overview NIST has partnered with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study cellular characteristics and cellular movements in live mice that indicate the presence of tumors. NIST researchers have developed neural networks designed to automatically detect...

Machine Learning for Internet of Things (IoT)

Ongoing
Resource Allocation in IIoT Systems As with any large an complex system, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments require the system operator to efficiently allocate the available bandwidth, computing, and energy resources. This is challenging because IIoT systems, especially large ones, can...

Measurement Science for Automated Vehicles

Ongoing
Objective Develop measurement science for evaluating AI-based decision-making systems in automated vehicles. Technical Idea This project produces measurement methods, reference baselines, test tools, and scenario datasets that solve the measurement gap described above. Current evaluation methods...

Measurement Science for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program

Ongoing
Objective Develop and deploy measurement science that advances robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, autonomy, safety, and ease of implementation to enhance U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. Technical Idea The fundamental idea is to provide the measurement science needed...

Methods for Community Resilience Tradeoffs

Completed
Objective - To support community resilience planning in the context of multiple competing objectives, including sustainability, adaptation, and public health, by evaluating complementarities and tradeoffs. What is the technical idea? Communities face multiple competing objectives in planning...

Microstructure-Property Tools for Structure-Property Design

Ongoing
Materials Digital Twins for AM Current methodologies for designing digital twins in additive manufacturing (AM) exhibit two main approaches. The first method involves ML models that establish a direct correlation between input and output properties, overlooks materials structure and characterization...

NIST LabCAS: Data Driven Science Architecture and Resource

Ongoing
Biological data lie at the heart of innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the emerging biotechnology sector and serve as key strategic resources for achieving major breakthroughs in biomanufacturing, as summarized by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology's...

Overlay Metrology Using Physics and AI-Based Scanning Electron Microscopy

Ongoing
Overview The project aims to build a complete, physics-backed metrology pipeline for deployment in commercial semiconductor chip fabrication facilities and research labs to optimize scanning electron microscopy (SEM)-based overlay, critical dimensions (CD), and defect inspection. Beyond production...

Physical AI and Data Generation for Robotics

Ongoing
Objective Develop metrics, test methods, standards, software, prototypes, and datasets to promote the adoption of AI-enhanced robotics. Technical Idea To address this problem, manufacturers and integrators need a streamlined way of assessing the productive impact of AI systems. To address the first...

Polymer Analytics

Completed
This project focuses on a variety of activities to achieve the aforementioned goal of accelerating the discovery of new polymer physics. Enhanced machine learning Two major hurdles to applying machine learning to polymer science is a lack of large datasets and a need to understand the model...

Quantitative Flow Cytometry Measurements

Ongoing
Flow cytometry is an essential tool for: basic biotechnological and immunological research, the clinical discovery of potential therapeutics, development and approval of drugs and devices, disease diagnosis, and therapeutic treatment and monitoring For example, flow cytometry is commonly used in pre...

Reliability of Mechanical Systems in Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop AI-assisted Fault-Detection and Diagnostic tools for reliability and operating cost savings of residential air conditioners (ACs), heat pumps (HPs), and mechanical systems of large commercial buildings. Technical Idea NIST will develop and demonstrate cloud-based FDD methods for...

Stem Cell Metrology: WSDOM

Ongoing
Stem cells are critical starting materials for advanced therapies and diagnostic devices. The most commonly used are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) which can be created with any individual’s skin cells, and then can be coaxed to become cells for any tissue of the body. Therapies and...

Using AI Networks to Improve Low-Field Brain Images

Ongoing
Overview Low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) promises to make MRI more accessible and affordable. However, this accessibility comes with a tradeoff: lower image quality that can limit clinical usefulness. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have the potential to improve low-field MRI image...

Validating Computational Pipelines for Analysis of Live Cell Image Data

Ongoing
We are exploring methods for high-speed cell image data collection, which is enabling the repeated sampling of hundreds of thousands of cells every 2 minutes. Rapid sampling allow us to observe dynamic processes in cells (such as cell division) on a relevant time scale. Such rates of sampling allows...
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