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Ultrasound offers promising applications in biology and chemistry, but quantifying local ultrasound conditions remains challenging due to the lack of non-invasive measurement tools. We introduce antibubbles as novel optical reporters of…

In recent years, aerial platforms have evolved from passive flying sensors into versatile, contact-aware robotic systems, leading to rapid advances in platform design. Standard coplanar and collinear quadrotors have been complemented by…

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In this work, we present a methodology and a corresponding code-base for constructing mock integral field spectrograph (IFS) observations of simulated galaxies in a consistent and reproducible way. Such methods are necessary to improve the…

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are nowadays used to represent multimedia signals across various real-life applications, including image super-resolution, image compression, or 3D rendering. Existing methods that leverage INRs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Filip Szatkowski , Karol J. Piczak , Przemysław Spurek , Jacek Tabor , Tomasz Trzciński

The creation of unique control methods for a hand prosthesis is still a problem that has to be addressed. The best choice of a human-machine interface (HMI) that should be used to enable natural control is still a challenge. Surface…

Ultrasound imaging is a real-time diagnostic modality that reconstructs acoustic signals into visual representations of internal body structures. A key component in this process is beamforming, with the Delay and Sum (DAS) algorithm being a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chiara Razzetta , Sara Garbarino , Michele Piana , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

Coherent Ising Machines (CIMs) have emerged as a hybrid form of quantum computing devices designed to solve NP-complete problems, offering an exciting opportunity for discovering optimal solutions. Despite challenges such as susceptibility…

Despite renewed awareness of the importance of articulation, it remains a challenge for instructors to handle the pronunciation needs of language learners. There are relatively scarce pedagogical tools for pronunciation teaching and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 M. Hamed Mozaffari , Won-Sook Lee

The aim of this paper is to present and describe SimLab 1.1 (Simulation Laboratory for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis) software designed for Monte Carlo analysis that is based on performing multiple model evaluations with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 N. Giglioli , A. Saltelli

The Imaging Computational Microscope (ICM) is a suite of computational tools for automated analysis of functional imaging data that runs under the cross-platform MATLAB environment (The Mathworks, Inc.). ICM uses a semi-supervised…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-26 E. Paxon Frady , William B. Kristan

The development of neurologically active drugs faces a challenge in treating brain diseases due to the blood-brain barrier's impermeability. High-intensity focused ultrasound can open the barrier in a targeted manner, expanding treatment…

Although a universal quantum computer is still far from reach, the tremendous advances in controllable quantum devices, in particular with solid-state systems, make it possible to physically implement "quantum simulators". Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Zhixin Wang , Xiu Gu , Lian-Ao Wu , Yu-xi Liu

Advances in unmanned synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imaging platforms allow for the simultaneous collection of multiband SAS imagery. The imagery is collected over several octaves and the phenomenology's interactions with the sea floor vary…

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Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging imaging modality for breast imaging that can produce quantitative images that depict the acoustic properties of tissues. Computer-simulation studies, also known as virtual imaging trials,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Fu Li , Umberto Villa , Seonyeong Park , Mark A. Anastasio

The Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy Instrument (ISSIS) will be flown as part of the Science Instrumentation in the World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV). ISSIS will be the first UV imager to operate in a high Earth orbit from a 2-m…

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Ultrasound is widely used in obstetric care due to its safety, accessibility, and real-time imaging. However, interpretation remains operator-dependent and susceptible to noise and artifacts. Deep learning models have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Leya Barrientos , Yuexi Du , Nicha C. Dvornek

Purpose: To describe the current properties and capabilities of an open-source hardware and software package that is being developed by many sites internationally with the aim of providing an inexpensive yet flexible platform for low-cost…

Noise pollution investigation takes advantage of two common methods of diagnosis: measurement using a Sound Level Meter and acoustical imaging. The former enables a detailed analysis of the surrounding noise spectrum whereas the latter is…

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Simulation involves predicting responses of a physical system. In this article, we simulate opto-acoustic signals generated in a three-dimensional volume due to absorption of an optical pulse. A separable computational model is developed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Jason Zalev , Michael C. Kolios