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Imaging"],"abstract":"<jats:p>The continuous scaling of semiconductor devices has increased the density and complexity of wafer dies, making precise and efficient defect detection a critical task for intelligent manufacturing. Traditional manual or semi-automated inspection approaches are often inefficient, error-prone, and susceptible to missed or false detections, particularly for small or irregular defects. This study presents a wafer defect detection framework that integrates clustering\u2013template matching (CTM) with an improved YOLOv10 network (CTM-IYOLOv10). The CTM strategy enhances die segmentation efficiency and mitigates redundant matching in multi-die fields of view, while the introduction of a modified GhostConv module and an enhanced BiFPN structure strengthens feature representation, reduces computational redundancy, and improves small-object detection. Furthermore, data augmentation strategies are employed to improve robustness and generalization. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that CTM-IYOLOv10 achieves a detection accuracy of 98.1%, reduces inference time by 23.2%, and compresses model size by 52.3% compared with baseline YOLOv10, and consistently outperforms representative detectors such as YOLOv5 and YOLOv8. 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