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Quantitative photoacoustic tomography is an emerging imaging technique aimed at estimating the distribution of optical parameters inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic…
Quantum parameter estimation theory is an important component of quantum information theory and provides the statistical foundation that underpins important topics such as quantum system identification and quantum waveform estimation. When…
We extend the traditional framework for estimating subspace bases that maximize the preserved signal energy to additionally preserve the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) of the biophysical parameters and, ultimately, improve accuracy and precision…
Quantitative Photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is an emerging medical imaging modality which offers the possibility of combining the high resolution of the acoustic waves and large contrast of optical waves by quantifying the molecular…
The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) is a crucial tool in signal processing for assessing the fundamental limitations of any estimation problem as well as benchmarking within a Bayesian frameworks. However, the BCRB cannot be computed…
It is challenged only recently that the precision attainable in any measurement of a physical parameter is fundamentally limited by the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (QCRB). Here, targeting at measuring parameters in strongly dissipative…
Estimating correctly the quantum phase of a physical system is a central problem in quantum parameter estimation theory due to its wide range of applications from quantum metrology to cryptography. Ideally, the optimal quantum estimator is…