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The standard chirplet transform (CT) with a chirp-modulated Gaussian window provides a valuable tool for analyzing linear chirp signals. The parameters present in the window determine the performance of the CT and play a vital role in…

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A new method is developed for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of multi-material objects using propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PB-CT) with phase retrieval via the contrast transfer function (CTF) formalism. The…

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Contrastive learning, as a self-supervised learning paradigm, becomes popular for Multivariate Time-Series (MTS) classification. It ensures the consistency across different views of unlabeled samples and then learns effective…

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Phase contrast tomography is an alternative to classic absorption contrast tomography that leads to higher contrast reconstructions in many applications. We review how phase contrast data can be acquired by using a combination of phase and…

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