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This paper addresses the problem of deriving the asymptotic performance of adaptive Low Rank (LR) filters used in target detection embedded in a disturbance composed of a LR Gaussian noise plus a white Gaussian noise. In this context, we…
Computed Tomography is one of the efficient and vital modalities of non-destructive techniques (NDT). Various factors influence the CT reconstruction result, including limited projection data, detector electronics optimization, background…
Long-range temporal coherence (LRTC) is quite common to dynamic systems and is fundamental to the system function. LRTC in the brain has been shown to be important to cognition. Assessing LRTC may provide critical information for…
Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides non-invasive measures of neuronal activity using an endogenous Blood Oxygenation-Level Dependent (BOLD) contrast. This article introduces a nonlinear dimensionality reduction…
Multi-frequency interferometry (MFI) is well known as an accurate phase-based measurement scheme. The paper reveals the inherent relationship of the unambiguous measurement range (UMR), the outlier probability, the MSE performance with the…
In this paper, a new definition of tensor p-shrinkage nuclear norm (p-TNN) is proposed based on tensor singular value decomposition (t-SVD). In particular, it can be proved that p-TNN is a better approximation of the tensor average rank…
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data is a widely used kind of four-dimensional biomedical data, which requires effective compression. However, fMRI compressing poses unique challenges due to its intricate temporal dynamics, low…
We first propose a novel criterion that guarantees that an $s$-sparse signal is the local minimizer of the $\ell_1/\ell_2$ objective; our criterion is interpretable and useful in practice. We also give the first uniform recovery condition…
Velocity estimation is a cornerstone of the recently introduced near-field predictive beamforming. This paper derives the Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) for joint radial and transverse velocity estimation within a predictive beamforming framework…
In cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, a 3D high-resolution segmentation of the heart is essential for detailed description of its anatomical structures. However, due to the limit of acquisition duration and respiratory/cardiac…
Despite the immense technology advancement in the surgeries the criteria of assessing the surgical skills still remains based on subjective standards. With the advent of robotic-assisted surgery, new opportunities for objective and…
In colocated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar using compressive sensing (CS), a receive node compresses its received signal via a linear transformation, referred to as measurement matrix. The samples are subsequently forwarded to…
The past decade has demonstrated increasing interests in using optimal control based methods within coherent quantum controllable systems. The versatility of such methods has been demonstrated with particular elegance within nuclear…
Background: X-nuclei imaging (e.g. 31P MRI) suffers low SNR due to lower gyromagnetic ratios and tissue concentrations than 1H MRI. Enhancing SNR requires high fields, advanced coils, optimized sequences, and sophisticated reconstruction…
In this work a generic model-based reconstruction for the quantification of relaxation parameters is developed. In contrast to previous approaches that rely on simplified models derived from the Bloch equations, this work includes the Bloch…
In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system for localizing a target based on its reflected echo signals. Specifically, we aim to estimate the random and unknown angle information of the target, by…
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is one of the main experimental tools to evaluate the production potential of porous rocks in oil wells. From the relative areas and mean values obtained from relaxation time distribution curves, information…
In this paper, we aim at recovering an unknown signal x0 from noisy L1measurements y=Phi*x0+w, where Phi is an ill-conditioned or singular linear operator and w accounts for some noise. To regularize such an ill-posed inverse problem, we…
Purpose: Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) is a quantitative, non-invasive alternative to perfusion imaging with contrast agents. Fixing values of certain model parameters in traditional ASL, which actually vary from region to region, may…
In MRI, variations in scan parameters, sequence, or hardware can lead to discrepancies in image appearance, even for the same subject. These inconsistencies, known as domain shifts, can hinder image analysis and degrade the performance of…