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Multi-slice magnetic resonance images of the fetal brain are usually contaminated by severe and arbitrary fetal and maternal motion. Hence, stable and robust motion correction is necessary to reconstruct high-resolution 3D fetal brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Wen Shi , Haoan Xu , Cong Sun , Jiwei Sun , Yamin Li , Xinyi Xu , Tianshu Zheng , Yi Zhang , Guangbin Wang , Dan Wu

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is ubiquitous in nanoscale science allowing the observation of features in real space down to the angstrom resolution. The scanning nature of SPM, wherein a sharp tip rasters the surface during which a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-20 Maxime Le Ster , Sławomir Pawłowski , Iaroslav Lutsyk , Paweł Janusz Kowalczyk

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an analytical surface characterization tool which can reveal a sample's topography with high spatial resolution while simultaneously probing tip-sample interactions. Local measurement of chemical properties…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Omur E. Dagdeviren , Yoichi Miyahara , Aaron Mascaro , Peter Grutter

We introduce a novel control mode for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) that leverages di/dz feedback. By superimposing a high-frequency sinusoidal modulation on the control signal, we extract the amplitude of the resulting tunneling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Richa Mishra , S. O. Reza Moheimani

Over the past decade, reflection matrix microscopy (RMM) and advanced image reconstruction algorithms have emerged to address the fundamental imaging depth limitations of optical microscopy in thick biological tissues and complex media. In…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-03 Sungsam Kang , Seokchan Yoon , Wonshik Choi

This paper introduces the Asymptotic-Preserving Random Feature Method (APRFM) for the efficient resolution of multiscale radiative transfer equations. The APRFM effectively addresses the challenges posed by stiffness and multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jingrun Chen , Zheng Ma , Keke Wu

We present Advancing Front Mapping (AFM), a provably robust algorithm for the computation of surface mappings to simple base domains. Given an input mesh and a convex or star-shaped target domain, AFM installs a (possibly refined) version…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Marco Livesu

The present study proposes an active flow control (AFC) approach based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize the performance of multiple plasma actuators on a square cylinder. The investigation aims to modify the control inputs…

To reduce scanning time and/or improve spatial/temporal resolution in some MRI applications, parallel MRI (pMRI) acquisition techniques with multiple coils acquisition have emerged since the early 1990s as powerful 3D imaging methods that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Lotfi Chaari , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Philippe Ciuciu , Amel Benazza-Benyahia

Optimizing accelerator control is a critical challenge in experimental particle physics, requiring significant manual effort and resource expenditure. Traditional tuning methods are often time-consuming and reliant on expert input,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Anwar Ibrahim , Denis Derkach , Alexey Petrenko , Fedor Ratnikov , Maxim Kaledin

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a valuable technique by which one can investigate the physical characteristics of the surfaces of materials. However, its widespread use is hampered by the time-consuming nature of running an experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-03 Nicholas J. Sullivan , Julio J. Valdés , Kirk H. Bevan , Peter Grutter

Combining tunable metasurfaces with chaotic cavities opens new avenues for finely tailored dynamic control of microwaves with programmable coding metacavities (PCMs). There is currently a strong interest in utilizing PCMs to overcome the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Philipp del Hougne , Matthieu Davy , Ulrich Kuhl

We design and implement parallel prefix sum (scan) algorithms using Ascend AI accelerators. Ascend accelerators feature specialized computing units: the cube units for efficient matrix multiplication and the vector units for optimized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bartłomiej Wróblewski , Gioele Gottardo , Anastasios Zouzias

Robust low-rank matrix completion (RMC), or robust principal component analysis with partially observed data, has been studied extensively for computer vision, signal processing and machine learning applications. This problem aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

Computed Tomography (CT) takes X-ray measurements on the subjects to reconstruct tomographic images. As X-ray is radioactive, it is desirable to control the total amount of dose of X-ray for safety concerns. Therefore, we can only select a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ziju Shen , Yufei Wang , Dufan Wu , Xu Yang , Bin Dong

Optimal control methods provide solutions to safety-critical problems but easily become intractable. Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have emerged as a popular technique that facilitates their solution by provably guaranteeing safety,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Ehsan Sabouni , H. M. Sabbir Ahmad , Vittorio Giammarino , Christos G. Cassandras , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Wenchao Li

Segmentation of nanoscale electron microscopy (EM) images is crucial but still challenging in connectomics research. One reason for this is that none of the existing segmentation methods are error-free, so they require proofreading, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Khoa Tuan Nguyen , Ganghee Jang , Tran Anh Tuan , Won-ki Jeong

Sampling-based algorithms, such as Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRT) and its variants, have been used extensively for motion planning. Control barrier functions (CBFs) have been recently proposed to synthesize controllers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Ahmad Ahmad , Calin Belta , Roberto Tron

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) leverages transient-state signal dynamics generated by the tunable acquisition parameters, making the design of an optimal, robust sequence a complex, high-dimensional sequential decision problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shenjun Zhong , Zhifeng Chen , Zhaolin Chen

A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for linear system in presented. The proposed controller is an extension of the LMPC [1] and it aims to decrease the computational burden. The control scheme is reference-free and is able to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli