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Advances in vectorial polarisation-resolved imaging are bringing new capabilities to applications ranging from fundamental physics through to clinical diagnosis. Imaging polarimetry requires determination of the Mueller matrix (MM) at every…

Polynomial regression is widely used and can help to express nonlinear patterns. However, considering very high polynomial orders may lead to overfitting and poor extrapolation ability for unseen data. The paper presents a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Andrei Ivanov , Stefan Maria Ailuro

We present new, explicit, volume-preserving vector fields for polynomial divergence-free vector fields of arbitrary degree (both positive and negative). The main idea is to decompose the divergence polynomial by means of an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Huiyan Xue , Antonella Zanna

X-ray binary systems consist of a companion star and a compact object in close orbit. Thanks to their copious X-ray emission, these objects have been studied in detail using X-ray spectroscopy and timing. The inclination of these systems is…

Statistical methods such as sequential Monte Carlo Methods were proposed for detection, segmentation and tracking of objects in digital images. A similar approach, called Shape Particle Filters was introduced for the segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Z. Bardosi , D. Granata , G. Lugos , A. P. Tafti , S. Saxena

We settle the computational complexity of fundamental questions related to multicriteria integer linear programs, when the dimensions of the strategy space and of the outcome space are considered fixed constants. In particular we construct:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe

X-ray fluorescence computed tomography based on sheet-beam can save a huge amount of time to obtain a whole set of projections using synchrotron. However, it is clearly unpractical for most biomedical research laboratories. In this paper,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Shanghai Jiang , Peng He , Luzhen Deng , Mianyi Chen , Biao Wei

The imaging sharpness of an X-ray telescope is chiefly determined by the optical quality of its focusing optics, which in turn mostly depends on the shape accuracy and the surface finishing of the grazing-incidence X-ray mirrors that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Lorenzo Raimondi , Daniele Spiga

In a previous paper, we reviewed theoretically some of the available processing schemes for X-ray wavefront sensing based on random modulation. We here show experimental applications of the technique for characterising both refractive and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-24 Sebastien Berujon , Ruxandra Cojocaru , Pierre Piault , Rafael Celestre , Thomas Roth , Raymond Barrett , Eric Ziegler

Motivated by recent data analyses in biomedical imaging studies, we consider a class of image-on-scalar regression models for imaging responses and scalar predictors. We propose using flexible multivariate splines over triangulations to…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-04 Shan Yu , Guannan Wang , Li Wang , Lijian Yang

The goal of this effort is to establish the conditions and limits under which the Huygens-Fresnel principle accurately describes diffraction in the Monte Carlo ray-trace environment. This goal is achieved by systematic intercomparison of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 J. R. Mahan , N. Q. Vinh , V. X. Ho , N. B. Munir

Spatial resolution is a significant factor in the GEM performance in view of X-rays radiography and UV, visible light imaging. Monte-Carlo method is used to investigate the spatial resolution determined by the transverse diffusion in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-13 Yang Lan-Lan , Tu Yan , MA Shan-Le , Zhang Pan-Pan

Reflective imaging systems form an important part of photonic devices such as spectrometers, telescopes, augmented and virtual reality headsets or lithography platforms. Reflective optics provide unparalleled spectral performance and can be…

We develop a novel procedure for estimating the optimizer of general convex stochastic optimization problems of the form $\min_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \mathbb{E}[F(x,\xi)]$, when the given data is a finite independent sample selected according to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Daniel Bartl , Shahar Mendelson

Industrial experimental designs frequently lack optimal space-filling properties, rendering them unrepresentative. This study presents a comprehensive methodology to refine existing designs by enhancing coverage quality while optimizing…

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With increasing patient and staff X-ray radiation awareness, many efforts have been made to develop accurate patient dose estimation methods. To date, Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are considered golden standard to simulate the interaction…

Voxels are a geometric representation used for rendering volumes, multi-resolution models, and indirect lighting effects. Since the memory consumption of uncompressed voxel volumes scales cubically with resolution, past works have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Russel Arbore , Jeffrey Liu , Aidan Wefel , Steven Gao , Eric Shaffer

In therapeutic design, balancing various physiochemical properties is crucial for molecule development, similar to how Multiparameter Optimization (MPO) evaluates multiple variables to meet a primary goal. While many molecular features can…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-03 Agustin Kruel , Andrew D. McNaughton , Neeraj Kumar

This article focuses on covariance estimation for multi-view data. Popular approaches rely on factor-analytic decompositions that have shared and view-specific latent factors. Posterior computation is conducted via expensive and brittle…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-20 Lorenzo Mauri , David B. Dunson

A trace ratio optimization problem over the Stiefel manifold is investigated from the perspectives of both theory and numerical computations. At least three special cases of the problem have arisen from Fisher linear discriminant analysis,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Li Wang , Lei-Hong Zhang , Ren-Cang Li