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Traditional breast cancer imaging methods using microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) seek to recover the complex permittivity of the tissues at each voxel in the imaging region. This approach is suboptimal, in that it does not directly…
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Matrix factorization techniques have been widely used as a method for collaborative filtering for recommender systems. In recent times, different variants of deep learning algorithms have been explored in this setting to improve the task of…
Accurate thermal modeling of Terminal Test Masses (TTMs) is crucial for optimizing the sensitivity of gravitational wave interferometers like Virgo. In fact, in such gravitational wave detectors even minimal laser power absorption can…
IR cameras are widely used for temperature measurements in various applications, including agriculture, medicine, and security. Low-cost IR cameras have the immense potential to replace expensive radiometric cameras in these applications;…
Matrix factorization methods are important tools in data mining and analysis. They can be used for many tasks, ranging from dimensionality reduction to visualization. In this paper we concentrate on the use of matrix factorizations for…
The performance of sparse matrix computation highly depends on the matching of the matrix format with the underlying structure of the data being computed on. Different sparse matrix formats are suitable for different structures of data.…
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We introduce a technique based on infrared thermal emission, termed depth thermography, that can remotely measure the temperature distribution beneath the surface of certain objects. Depth thermography utilizes the thermal-emission spectrum…
We perform a finite sample analysis of the detection levels for sparse principal components of a high-dimensional covariance matrix. Our minimax optimal test is based on a sparse eigenvalue statistic. Alas, computing this test is known to…
Low-rank matrices play a fundamental role in modeling and computational methods for signal processing and machine learning. In many applications where low-rank matrices arise, these matrices cannot be fully sampled or directly observed, and…
In recent years, weakly supervised models have aided in mass detection using mammography images, decreasing the need for pixel-level annotations. However, most existing models in the literature rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) as the…
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful class of feature extraction techniques that has been successfully applied in many fields, namely in signal and image processing. Current NMF techniques have been limited to a…
Let $\Omega_\epsilon$ be a metallic plate whose top inaccessible surface has been damaged by some chemical or mechanical agent. We heat the opposite side and collect a sequence of temperature maps $u^\epsilon$. Here, we construct a formal…
Infrared thermography faces persistent challenges in temperature accuracy due to material emissivity variations, where existing methods often neglect the joint optimization of radiometric calibration and image degradation. This study…
Feature selection by maximizing high-order mutual information between the selected feature vector and a target variable is the gold standard in terms of selecting the best subset of relevant features that maximizes the performance of…
In this report, we discuss a simple model for RGB color and polarization images under a unified framework of quaternion nonnegative matrix factorization (QNMF) and present a hierarchical nonnegative least squares method to solve the factor…
The method of microwave radiometry is one of the areas of medical diagnosis of breast cancer. It is based on analysis of the spatial distribution of internal and surface tissue temperatures, which are measured in the microwave (RTM) and…
Dimensionality reduction (DR) of image features plays an important role in image retrieval and classification tasks. Recently, two types of methods have been proposed to improve the both the accuracy and efficiency for the dimensionality…