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Quantum Monte Carlo approaches such as the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method are among the most accurate many-body methods for extended systems. Their scaling makes them well suited for defect calculations in solids. We review the various…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-23 William D. Parker , John W. Wilkins , Richard G. Hennig

The integral quality monitor (IQM) system compares the signal measured with a large volume chamber mounted to the linear accelerator's head to the signal calculated using the patient DICOM RT plan for patient-specific quality assurance…

Four-dimensional (4D) wide coverage computed tomography (CT) is an effective imaging modality for measuring the mechanical function of the myocardium. However, repeated CT measurement across several heartbeats is still a concern. A…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zhye Yin , Pengwei Wu , Ashish Manohar , Elliot R. McVeigh , Jed D. Pack

The performance of medical image analysis systems is constrained by the quantity of high-quality image annotations. Such systems require data to be annotated by experts with years of training, especially when diagnostic decisions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Siqi Liu , Eli Gibson , Sasa Grbic , Zhoubing Xu , Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso Setio , Jie Yang , Bogdan Georgescu , Dorin Comaniciu

On the base of the diffusion Monte-Carlo method we develop the method allowing to simulate the quantum systems with complex wave function. The method is exact and there are no approximations on the simulations of the module and the phase of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Abdullaev , M. Musakhanov , A. Nakamura

Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a promising imaging technique for cancer detection and computer-assisted visualization. This study investigates prostate capsule segmentation using deep learning techniques from micro-US images, addressing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Kaniz Fatema , Vaibhav Thakur , Emad A. Mohammed

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a free-breathing respiratory motion compensated 4D (3D+respiration) $T_2$-weighted turbo spin echo sequence with application to radiology and MR-guided radiotherapy. Methods: k-space data are continuously…

We develop an online optimisation algorithm for in situ calibration of collision models in simulations of rarefied gas flows. The online optimised collision models are able to achieve similar accuracy to Direct Molecular Simulation (DMS) at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-21 Nicholas Daultry Ball , Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano

The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is a widely used stochastic particle approach to solving the Boltzmann equation. However, its computational cost remains a major drawback, which can be attributed to statistical errors when…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-12 Takehiro Shiraishi , Ikuya Kinefuchi

Purpose: To develop and apply multiscale Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to assess variations in nucleus and cytoplasm dose enhancement factors (n,cDEFs) over tumor-scale volumes. Methods: The intrinsic variation of n,cDEFs (due to variations…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Martin P. Martinov , Elizabeth M. Fletcher , Rowan M. Thomson

In conventional 2D DCE-US, motion correction algorithms take advantage of accompanying side-by-side anatomical Bmode images that contain time-stable features. However, current commercial models of 3D DCE-US do not provide side-by-side Bmode…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Jia-Shu Chen , Maged Goubran Ph. D. , Gaeun Kim , Jurgen K. Willmann M. D. , Michael Zeineh M. D. , Ph. D. , Dimitre Hristov Ph. D. , Ahmed El Kaffas Ph. D

In this work, we propose a Machine Learning model that generates an adjustable 3D dose distribution for external beam radiation therapy for head-and-neck cancer treatments. In contrast to existing Machine Learning methods that provide a…

This article examines the critical role of fast Monte Carlo dose calculations in advancing proton therapy techniques, particularly in the context of increasing treatment customization and precision. As adaptive radiotherapy and other…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Jason Holmes , Hongying Feng , Lian Zhang , Michael Fix , Steve B. Jiang , Wei Liu

Super-Resolution Ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking microbubbles, also known as Ultrasound Localisation Microscopy (ULM), has demonstrated significant potential for reconstructing microvasculature and flows with…

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Accurate brain tumor segmentation from MRI is vital for diagnosis and treatment planning. Although Monte Carlo (MC) Dropout is widely used to estimate model uncertainty, the effectiveness of variance-based uncertainty - computed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Saumya B

With increasing patient and staff X-ray radiation awareness, many efforts have been made to develop accurate patient dose estimation methods. To date, Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are considered golden standard to simulate the interaction…

We present an end-to-end differentiable molecular simulation framework (DIMOS) for molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. DIMOS easily integrates machine-learning-based interatomic potentials and implements classical force fields…

Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) has been widely used in cancer radiotherapy for accurate target delineation and motion measurement for tumors in thorax and upper abdomen areas. However, 4DCT simulation is associated with much…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Tian , Xun Jia , Steve B. Jiang

Animating stylized characters to match a reference motion sequence is a highly demanded task in film and gaming industries. Existing methods mostly focus on rigid deformations of characters' body, neglecting local deformations on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rong Wang , Wei Mao , Changsheng Lu , Hongdong Li

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used for evaluation of hemodynamics. However, its routine use is limited by labor-intensive manual segmentation, CFD mesh creation, and time-consuming simulation. This study aims to train a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tina Yao , Endrit Pajaziti , Michael Quail , Silvia Schievano , Jennifer A Steeden , Vivek Muthurangu