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Two weighted selection combining (WSC) schemes are proposed for a differential decode-and-forward relaying system in Rayleigh fading channels. Compared to the conventional selection combining scheme, the decision variable of the relay link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Yi Lou , Qiyue Yu , Julian Cheng , Honglin Zhao

In this report, we demonstrate a new principle to improve the resolution of the acoustic microscopy, which is based on the sub-wavelength focusing of acoustic wave passing through an acoustically transparent mesoscale particle. In the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 I. V. Minin , Q. Tang , S. Bhuyan , J. Hu , O. V. Minin

In Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), the most prevalent beamforming algorithm is delay-and-sum (DAS) due to its simple implementation. However, it results in a low quality image affected by the high level of sidelobes. Coherence factor (CF) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-10 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Mohammad Mehrmohammadi , Bahador Makkiabadi

Attenuation correction (AC) is necessary for accurate activity quantification in positron emission tomography (PET). Conventional reconstruction methods typically rely on attenuation maps derived from a co-registered computed tomography…

In this paper, we present a statistical beamforming algorithm as a pre-processing step for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). By modeling the target speech as a non-stationary Laplacian distribution, a mask-based statistical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Ui-Hyeop Shin , Hyung-Min Park

Many spatial filtering algorithms used for voice capture in, e.g., teleconferencing applications, can benefit from or even rely on knowledge of Relative Transfer Functions (RTFs). Accordingly, many RTF estimators have been proposed which,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Andreas Brendel , Johannes Zeitler , Walter Kellermann

We presented an efficient algorithm, fast adaptive flat-histogram ensemble (FAFE), to estimate the density of states (DOS) and to enhance sampling in large systems. FAFE calculates the means of an arbitrary extensive variable $U$ in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-13 Xin Zhou , Yi Jiang

An efficient despeckling method using a quantum-inspired adaptive threshold function is presented for reducing noise of ultrasound images. In the first step, the ultrasound image is decorrelated by an spectrum equalization procedure due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

This paper studies power allocation for distributed estimation of an unknown scalar random source in sensor networks with a multiple-antenna fusion center (FC), where wireless sensors are equipped with radio-frequency based energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Vien V. Mai , Won-Yong Shin , Koji Ishibashi

With a focus on linear models with smooth functional covariates, we propose a penalization framework (SACR) based on the nonzero centered ridge, where the center of the penalty is optimally reweighted in a supervised way, starting from the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-03 Edoardo Belli

The delineation of tumor target and organs-at-risk is critical in the radiotherapy treatment planning. Automatic segmentation can be used to reduce the physician workload and improve the consistency. However, the quality assurance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yihao Zhao , Cuiyun Yuan , Ying Liang , Yang Li , Chunxia Li , Man Zhao , Jun Hu , Wei Liu , Chenbin Liu

Objective: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely considered as gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of new health interventions. When treatment non-compliance is present in RCTs, the treatment effect in the subgroup of…

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Spectral Estimation (SpecEst) is a core area of signal processing with a history spanning two centuries and applications across various fields. With the advent of digital acquisition, SpecEst algorithms have been widely applied to tasks…

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This paper presents a novel channel-estimation (CE) method that mitigates residual phase drifts in backscatter links and a full hardware and signal-processing pipeline for a single-antenna monostatic system. The platform comprises a…

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In the framework of algebraic inversion, Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) repeatability, reproducibility and robustness were evaluated on extracted shear velocities (or elastic moduli). The same excitation system was implemented at two…

Multiscale entropy (MSE) has been a prevalent algorithm to quantify the complexity of fluctuations in the local mean value of biomedical time series. Recent developments in the field have tried to improve the MSE by reducing its variability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Hamed Azami , Alberto Fernandez , Javier Escudero

In the present paper we consider the problem of Laplace deconvolution with noisy discrete observations. The study is motivated by Dynamic Contrast Enhanced imaging using a bolus of contrast agent, a procedure which allows considerable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-12 Fabienne Comte , Charles-André Cuénod , Marianna Pensky , Yves Rozenholc

In this paper, a novel and robust algorithm is proposed for adaptive beamforming based on the idea of reconstructing the autocorrelation sequence (ACS) of a random process from a set of measured data. This is obtained from the first column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Vitor H. Nascimento , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Osman Kukrer

This study introduces a new approach to power analysis in the context of estimating a local average treatment effect (LATE), where the study subjects exhibit noncompliance with treatment assignment. As a result of distributional…

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