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Fr\'echet regression is becoming a mainstay in modern data analysis for analyzing non-traditional data types belonging to general metric spaces. This novel regression method is especially useful in the analysis of complex health data such…

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In Part I of this diptych, we outline the parallel mode of differential phase contrast (TEM-DPC), which uses real-space distortion of Fresnel images arising from electrostatic or magnetostatic fields to quantify the phase gradient of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 G. W. Paterson , G. M. Macauley , S. McVitie , Y. Togawa

When dealing with material classification in baggage at airports, Dual-Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) allows characterization of any given material with coefficients based on two attenuative effects: Compton scattering and photoelectric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-06 Fangda Li , Ankit Manerikar , Tanmay Prakash , Avinash Kak

We present a novel method to improve pharmacokinetics modeling, an essential step of drug development. Conventional models frequently fail to fully represent the intricacies of drug absorption and distribution, which limits their predictive…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Nazanin Ahmadi , Shupeng Wang , George Karniadakis

Coherent ptychographic imaging experiments often discard over 99.9 % of the flux from a light source to define the coherence of an illumination. Even when coherent flux is sufficient, the stability required during an exposure is another…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-10 Huibin Chang , Pablo Enfedaque , Yifei Lou , Stefano Marchesini

Proton computed tomography (pCT) aims to facilitate precise dose planning for hadron therapy, a promising and effective method for cancer treatment. Hadron therapy utilizes protons and heavy ions to deliver well focused doses of radiation,…

Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) detectors exhibiting multiple coincidence time resolution (CTR) components, such as those induced by the mixing of Cherenkov and scintillation photons, have attracted increasing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Kibo Ote , Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Ryosuke Ota , Maxime Toussaint , Francis Loignon-Houle

Technologies based on the use of hydrogen are promising for future energy requirements in a more sustainable world. Consequently, modelling fuel cells is crucial, for instance, to optimize their control to achieve excellent performance, to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Raphaël Gass , Zhongliang Li , Rachid Outbib , Samir Jemei , Daniel Hissel

{\bf Background} Deuteron induced reactions are widely used to probe nuclear structure and astrophysical information. Those (d,p) reactions may be viewed as three-body reactions and described with Faddeev techniques. {\bf Purpose}…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 L. Hlophe , Jin Lei , Ch. Elster , A. Nogga , F. M. Nunes , D. Jurčiukonis , A. Deltuva

A mixed quantum-classical approach to simulate the coupled dynamics of electrons and nuclei in nanoscale molecular systems is presented. The method relies on a second order expansion of the Lagrangian in time-dependent density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Niehaus , D. Heringer , B. Torralva , Th. Frauenheim

Understanding nuclear effects in parton distribution functions (PDF) is an essential component needed to determine the strange and anti-strange quark contributions in the proton. In addition Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDF) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Karol Kovarik

We present the extention and application of a new unsupervised statistical learning technique--the Partition Decoupling Method--to gene expression data. Because it has the ability to reveal non-linear and non-convex geometries present in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Rosemary Braun , Gregory Leibon , Scott Pauls , Daniel Rockmore

Particle physics simulations are the cornerstone of nuclear engineering applications. Among them radiotherapy (RT) is crucial for society, with 50% of cancer patients receiving radiation treatments. For the most precise targeting of tumors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Oscar Pastor-Serrano , Zoltán Perkó

This work aims efficiently estimating the posterior distribution of kinetic parameters for dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) imaging given a measurement of time of activity curve. Considering the inherent information loss from…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Xiaofeng Liu , Thibault Marin , Tiss Amal , Jonghye Woo , Georges El Fakhri , Jinsong Ouyang

This work is concerned with the propagation of uncertainty across coupled domain problems with high-dimensional random inputs. A stochastic model reduction approach based on low-rank separated representations is proposed for the partitioned…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Mohammad Hadigol , Alireza Doostan , Hermann G. Matthies , Rainer Niekamp

We are evaluating the performance of a Passive Gamma Emission Tomography (PGET) device equipped with 3D position-sensitive cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma-ray detectors when used for inspecting spent nuclear fuel assemblies (SFAs).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-09 Santeri Saariokari , Peter Dendooven , Mounia Laassiri , Erik Brücken

We develop the basic building blocks of a frequency domain framework for drawing statistical inferences on the second-order structure of a stationary sequence of functional data. The key element in such a context is the spectral density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Victor M. Panaretos , Shahin Tavakoli

Resonant Energy Transfer (RET) from an optically excited donor molecule (D) to a non-excited acceptor molecule (A) residing nearby is widely used to detect molecular interactions in living cells. Stoichiometric information, such as the…

We report high time-resolution measurements of photon statistics from pairs of dye molecules coupled by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). In addition to quantum-optical photon antibunching, we observe photon bunching on a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew J. Berglund , Andrew C. Doherty , Hideo Mabuchi

In this contribution we discuss the main outcomes of our studies on the so called double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), accessible quantities in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions, in double parton scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Matteo Rinaldi