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A general spherical harmonics method is described for extracting anisotropic pair distribution functions (PDF) in this work. In the structural study of functional crystallized materials, the investigation of the local structures under the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-05 Guanjie Zhang , Hui Liu , Jun Chen , He Lin , Nan Zhang

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is an imaging technology designed to probe anatomical architectures of biological samples in an in vivo and non-invasive manner through measuring water diffusion. The contribution of this paper is…

A new method for analyzing the morphological features of point patterns is presented. The method is taken from the study of molecular liquids, where it has been introduced for making a statistical description of anisotropic distributions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Valdarnini

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a non-invasive imaging technique that allows estimation of the location of white matter tracts in-vivo, based on the measurement of water diffusion properties. For each voxel, a second-order tensor can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-24 Miriam H. A. Bauer , Sebastiano Barbieri , Jan Klein , Jan Egger , Daniela Kuhnt , Bernd Freisleben , Horst K. Hahn , Christopher Nimsky

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the method of choice for noninvasive studies of micrometer-scale structures in biological tissues via their effects on the time/frequency-dependent ("restricted") and anisotropic self-diffusion of water.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-16 Omar Narvaez , Maxime Yon , Hong Jiang , Diana Bernin , Eva Forssell-Aronsson , Alejandra Sierra , Daniel Topgaard

Consider the problem when $X_1,X_2,..., X_n$ are distributed on a circle following an unknown distribution $F$ on $S^1$. In this article we have consider the absolute general set-up where the density can have local features such as…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-26 Kinjal Basu , Debapriya Sengupta

Diffusion MRI is a modern neuroimaging modality with a unique ability to acquire microstructural information by measuring water self-diffusion at the voxel level. However, it generates huge amounts of data, resulting from a large number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Ikram Jumakulyyev , Thomas Schultz

We present a nonparametric Bayesian framework to infer radial distribution functions from experimental scattering measurements with uncertainty quantification using non-stationary Gaussian processes. The Gaussian process prior mean and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Harry W. Sullivan , Brennon L. Shanks , Matej Cervenka , Michael P. Hoepfner

We show that the information gained in spectroscopic experiments regarding the number and distribution of atomic environments can be used as a valuable constraint in the refinement of the atomic-scale structures of nanostructured or…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Matthew J Cliffe , Martin T. Dove , D. A. Drabold , Andrew L. Goodwin

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as the new state-of-the-art family of deep generative models. To gain deeper insights into the limitations of diffusion models in recommender systems, we investigate the fundamental structural disparities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Meng Yuan , Yutian Xiao , Wei Chen , Chu Zhao , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang

Diffusion kurtosis imaging is an extension of diffusion tensor imaging that provides scientifically and clinically valuable information about brain tissue microstructure but suffers from poor robustness to noise, especially in voxels…

We have discovered analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF) of photons that are multiply scattered in relativistic flows, under the assumption of isotropic and inelastic scattering. These expressions characterize…

We report the development of a scalar quantization approach that helps build tables of decision and reconstruction levels for any probability density function (pdf). Several example pdf's are used for illustration: Uniform, Gaussian,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 C. Tannous

The silo discharge process is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The development of the velocity profile and the probability density function for the displacements in the horizontal and vertical axis are obtained. The PDFs obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Arevalo , A. Garcimartin , D. Maza

Unresolved spatially-random microstructure, in an illuminated sample, can lead to position-dependent blur when an image of that sample is formed. For a small propagation distance, between the exit surface of the sample and the entrance…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-09 David M. Paganin , Daniele Pelliccia , Kaye S. Morgan

We investigate the upscaling of diffusive transport parameters as function of pore scale material structure using a stochastic framework. We focus on sub-REV (representative elementary volume) scale where the complexity of pore space…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-21 Alraune Zech , Matthijs de Winter

It is now practically the norm for data to be very high dimensional in areas such as genetics, machine vision, image analysis and many others. When analyzing such data, parametric models are often too inflexible while nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-05-31 Abhishek Bhattacharya , Garritt Page , David Dunson

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) plays a crucial role in the noninvasive investigation of tissue microstructural properties and structural connectivity in the \textit{in vivo} human brain. However, to effectively capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jing Yang , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Wenxin Fan , Juan Zou , Ruoyou Wu , Shanshan Wang

Existing nonlocal diffusion models are predominantly classified into two categories: bond-based models, which involve a single-fold integral and usually simulate isotropic diffusion, and state-based models, which contain a double-fold…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Lili Ju , Hao Tian , Junke Lu

The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yann Lanoiselée , Gianni Pagnini , Agnieszka Wyłomańska