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Noise is an important issue for radiographic and tomographic imaging techniques. It becomes particularly critical in applications where additional constraints force a strong reduction of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) per image. These…
T-wave alternans (TWA) is a potential marker for sudden cardiac death, but its reliable analysis is often constrained to noise-free environments, limiting its utility in real-world settings. We explore model-based T-wave estimation to…
We develop the analysis (cosparse) variant of the popular audio declipping algorithm of Siedenburg et al. (2014). Furthermore, we extend both the old and the new variants by the possibility of weighting the time-frequency coefficients. We…
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In this paper, a weak Local Linearization scheme for Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) with multiplicative noise is introduced. First, for a time discretization, the solution of the SDE is locally approximated by the solution of the…
Filtering and smoothing algorithms for linear discrete-time state-space models with skewed and heavy-tailed measurement noise are presented. The algorithms use a variational Bayes approximation of the posterior distribution of models that…
Clinical deployment requires segmentation models to stay stable under distribution shifts and perturbations. The mainstream solution is adversarial training (AT) to improve robustness; however, AT often brings a clean--robustness trade-off…
We revisit the recently proposed ``self-Wiener" (SW) filtering method for robust deconvolution, and generalize it to the classical denoising problem. The resulting estimator, termed generalized SW (GSW) filtering, retains the nonlinear…
Ultrasound imaging is extensively employed in clinical settings due to its non-ionizing nature and real-time capabilities. The beamformer represents a crucial component of an ultrasound machine, playing a significant role in shaping the…
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) holds great promise for improving the detection and management of breast cancer. Because they are based on the acoustic wave equation, waveform inversion-based reconstruction methods can produce images…
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