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This study addresses the classification of heartbeats from ECG signals through two distinct approaches: traditional machine learning utilizing hand-crafted features and deep learning via transformed images of ECG beats. The dataset…

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The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a sensitive diagnostic tool that is used to detect various cardiovascular diseases by measuring and recording the electrical activity of the heart in exquisite detail. A wide range of heart condition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Sayantan Mukhopadhyay , Shouvik Biswas , Anamitra Bardhan Roy , Nilanjan Dey

In recent years, there has been a shift of interest towards the field of biometric authentication, which proves the identity of the user using their biological characteristics. We explore a novel biometric based on the electrical activity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Nikita Samarin , Donald Sannella

Quantum metrology typically demands the preparation of exotic quantum probe states, such as entangled or squeezed states, to surpass classical limits. However, the need for carefully calibrated system parameters and finely optimized quantum…

Quantum correlations are key information about the structures and dynamics of quantum many-body systems. There are many types of high-order quantum correlations with different time orderings, but only a few of them are accessible to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Ze Wu , Ping Wang , Tianyun Wang , Yuchen Li , Ran Liu , Yuquan Chen , Xinhua Peng , Ren-Bao Liu , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum correlations between measurements of separated observers are crucial for applications like randomness generation and key distribution. Although device-independent security can be certified with minimal assumptions, current protocols…

Quantum process tomography is a useful tool for characterizing quantum processes. This task is essential for the development of different areas, such as quantum information processing. In this work, we present a protocol for selective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Virginia Feldman , Ariel Bendersky

Top-performance sources of photonic entanglement are an indispensable resource for many applications in quantum communication, most notably quantum key distribution. However, up to now, no source has been shown to simultaneously exhibit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Sebastian Philipp Neumann , Mirela Selimovic , Martin Bohmann , Rupert Ursin

In this paper, we propose an algorithm denoted as HeartBEAT that tracks heart rate from wrist-type photoplethysmography (PPG) signals and simultaneously recorded three-axis acceleration data. HeartBEAT contains three major parts: spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-14 Huijie Pan , Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

We suggest that the randomness of the choices of measurement basis by Alice and Bob provides an additional important resource for quantum cryptography. As a specific application, we present a novel protocol for quantum key distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Hannes R. Böhm , Paul S. Böhm , Markus Aspelmeyer , Časlav Brukner , Anton Zeilinger

Brakerski et. al [BCM+18] introduced the model of cryptographic testing of a single untrusted quantum device and gave a protocol for certifiable randomness generation. We use the leakage resilience properties of the Learning With Errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Urmila Mahadev , Umesh Vazirani , Thomas Vidick

Source independent quantum random number generators (SI-QRNG) are cryptographic protocols which attempt to extract random strings from quantum sources where the source is under the control of an adversary while the measurement devices are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Minwoo Bae , Walter O. Krawec

Sequential monitoring in clinical trials is often employed to allow for early stopping and other interim decisions, while maintaining the type I error rate. However, sequential monitoring is typically described only in the context of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Victoria Plamadeala , William F. Rosenberger

Quantum key distribution can be performed with practical signal sources such as weak coherent pulses. One example of such a scheme is the Bennett-Brassard protocol that can be implemented via polarization of the signals, or equivalent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Lütkenhaus , Mika Jahma

We extend quantum rate distortion theory by considering auxiliary resources that might be available to a sender and receiver performing lossy quantum data compression. The first setting we consider is that of quantum rate distortion coding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Mark M. Wilde , Nilanjana Datta , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Andreas Winter

Electrocardiogram (ECG), a technique for medical monitoring of cardiac activity, is an important method for identifying cardiovascular disease. However, analyzing the increasing quantity of ECG data consumes a lot of medical resources. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Xinyao Hou , Shengmei Qin , Jianbo Su

We present a quantum repeater scheme based on the recently proposed qubit amplifier [N. Gisin, S. Pironio and N. Sangouard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 070501 (2010)]. It relies on a on-demand entangled-photon pair source which uses on-demand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jiří Minář , Hugues de Riedmatten , Nicolas Sangouard

This paper investigates the problem of estimating the spectral power parameters of random analog sources using numerical measurements acquired with minimum digitization complexity. Therefore, spectral analysis has to be performed with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Manuel S. Stein

From the perspective of resource theory, it is interesting to achieve the same quantum task using as few quantum resources as possible. Semiquantum key distribution (SQKD), which allows a quantum user to share a confidential key with a…

Quantum computation based on quantum cellular automata (QCA) can greatly reduce the control and precision necessary for experimental implementations of quantum information processing. A QCA system consists of a few species of qubits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yaakov S. Weinstein , C. Stephen Hellberg