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Background: Accurate short-term readmission prediction of ICU patients is significant in improving the efficiency of resource assignment by assisting physicians in making discharge decisions. Clinically, both individual static static and…
Objective: Radiotherapy treatment planning is a time-consuming and potentially subjective process that requires the iterative adjustment of model parameters to balance multiple conflicting objectives. Recent advancements in frontier…
The MAST (Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak) real time plasma position controller is based on an optical linear camera placed on the mid plane of the vessel. This solution has the advantage of being a direct observation of the D…
Next generation online and real-time adaptive radiotherapy workflows require precise particle transport simulations in sub-second times, which is unfeasible with current analytical pencil beam algorithms (PBA) or stochastic Monte Carlo (MC)…
We present a new method for statistical process control (SPC) of a discrete part manufacturing system based on intrinsic geometrical properties of the parts, estimated from three-dimensional sensor data. An intrinsic method has the…
Background: Clinical linear accelerators are an accessible platform for preclinical research on the biological effects of ultra rapid electron irradiation (FLASH). However, they are not inherently designed for the accurate pulse control…
The effectiveness of a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) scan depends on the ability of the operator to correctly tune the acquisition parameters to the subject being scanned and on the potential occurrence of imaging artefacts such…
In this manuscript, we investigated the accuracy of the entire chain of phase space files generated by the TrueBeam VirtuaLinac system in clinical treatment plans. Good agreement was obtained between the MC simulation and the clinical…
Today, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is one of the methods used to treat brain tumors. In conventional treatment planning methods, after identifying planning target volume (PTV), and organs at risk (OARs), and determining the…
Many sources of errors exist in the manufacturing process of complex shapes. Some approximations occur at each step from the design geometry to the machined part. The aim of the paper is to present a method to evaluate the effect of high…
Objective: To develop and validate an independent Monet Carlo dose calculation engine to support for software verification of treatment planning systems and quality assurance workflow. Method: GATE Monte Carlo toolkit was employed to…
Emerging non-volatile memories have been proposed for a wide range of applications from easing the von-Neumann bottleneck to neuromorphic applications. Specifically, scalable RRAMs based on Pr$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$MnO$_3$ (PCMO) exhibit analog…
Radiotherapy continues to become more precise and data dense, with current treatment regimens generating high frequency imaging and dosimetry streams ideally suited for AI driven temporal modeling to characterize how normal tissues evolve…
Injected beam energy and energy spread are critical parameters affecting the performance of our rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). A real-time energy monitoring system is being installed to examine the H- beam out of the Intense Pulsed…
The increased dominance of intra-die process variations has motivated the field of Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA) and has raised the need for SSTA-based circuit optimization. In this paper, we propose a new sensitivity based,…
Clinical randomized controlled trials (RCTs) collect hundreds of measurements spanning various metric types (e.g., laboratory tests, cognitive/motor assessments, etc.) across 100s-1000s of subjects to evaluate the effect of a treatment, but…
Pragmatic trials increasingly define outcomes using real-world data such as electronic health records, where assessments are collected during routine care rather than at fixed timepoints. Consequently, these uncontrolled assessments may be…
We study statistical process control (SPC) through charting of $p$-values. When in control (IC), any valid sequence $(P_{t})_{t}$ is super-uniform, a requirement that can hold in nonparametric and two-phase designs without parametric…
Millimeter wave integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are being researched for next-generation intelligent transportation systems. Here, radar and communication functionalities share a common spectrum and hardware resources in…