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This paper considers filters (the Mexican hat wavelet, the matched and the scale-adaptive filters) that optimize the detection/separation of point sources on a background. We make a one-dimensional treatment, we assume that the sources have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. B. Barreiro , J. L. Sanz , D. Herranz , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

X-ray emission spectroscopy is a well-established technique used to study continuum lowering in dense plasmas. It relies on accurate atomic physics models to robustly reproduce high-resolution emission spectra, and depends on our ability to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 M. F. Kasim , J. S. Wark , S. M. Vinko

We present a theoretical justification for a method of extracting of supplementary information for the phase retrieval procedure taken from diffraction of fs-pulses from X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities. The approach is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 A. Leonov , D. Ksenzov , A. Benediktovitch , I. Feranchuk , U. Pietsch

Purpose: Using linear transformation of the data allows studying detectability of an imaging system on a large number of signals. An appropriate transformation will produce a set of signals with different contrast and different frequency…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Antonio González-López

Intelligent analysis of medical imaging plays a crucial role in assisting clinical diagnosis. However, achieving efficient and high-accuracy image classification in resource-constrained computational environments remains challenging. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jingsong Xia , Yue Yin , Xiuhan Li

Breast cancer is a health problem that affects mainly the female population. An early detection increases the chances of effective treatment, improving the prognosis of the disease. In this regard, computational tools have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Steve Tsham Mpinda Ataky , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

An algorithm is proposed for the segmentation of image into multiple levels using mean and standard deviation in the wavelet domain. The procedure provides for variable size segmentation with bigger block size around the mean, and having…

The hyperspectral X-ray imaging has been long sought in various fields from material analysis to medical diagnosis. Here we propose a new semiconductor detector structure to realize energy-resolved imaging at potentially low cost. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-26 Tengfei Yan , Chunlei Yang , Xiaodong Cui

Single-particle imaging experiments of biomolecules at x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) require processing of hundreds of thousands (or more) of images that contain very few x-rays. Each low-flux image of the diffraction pattern is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-16 Hugh T. Philipp , Kartik Ayyer , Mark W. Tate , Veit Elser , Sol M. Gruner

We propose a neural network component, the regional aggregation layer, that makes it possible to train a pixel-level density estimator using only coarse-grained density aggregates, which reflect the number of objects in an image region. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Nathan Jacobs , Adam Kraft , Muhammad Usman Rafique , Ranti Dev Sharma

Ophthalmological imaging utilizes different imaging systems, such as color fundus, infrared, fluorescein angiography, optical coherence tomography (OCT) or OCT angiography. Multiple images with different modalities or acquisition times are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Aline Sindel , Bettina Hohberger , Sebastian Fassihi Dehcordi , Christian Mardin , Robert Lämmer , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

A procedure is described for estimating an optimum kernel for the detection by convolution of signals among Poissonian noise. The technique is applied to the detection of x-ray point sources in XMM-Newton data, and is shown to yield an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ian Stewart

In this paper, we undertake a study to determine what insight can be reliably gleaned from the comparison of the X-ray and the weak lensing mass maps of galaxy clusters. We do this by investigating the 2D substructure within three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Leila C. Powell , Scott T. Kay , Arif Babul

The advent of X-ray Free Electron Lasers promises the possibility to determine the structure of individual particles such as microcrystallites, viruses and biomolecules from single-shot diffraction snapshots obtained before the particle is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-06 Brian Moths , Abbas Ourmazd

State-of-the-art detection systems are generally evaluated on their ability to exhaustively retrieve objects densely distributed in the image, across a wide variety of appearances and semantic categories. Orthogonal to this, many real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Amelie Royer , Christoph H. Lampert

Large scale surveys have brought about a revolution in astronomy. To analyse the resulting wealth of data, we need automated tools to identify, classify, and quantify the important underlying structures. We present here a method for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 S. E. Jaffa , A. P. Whitworth , S. D. Clarke , A. D. P. Howard

The values of the signal-to-noise ratio are determined, at which the method of processing X-ray diffraction data reveals reflections with intensity less than the noise component of the background. The possibilities of the method are…

In this paper offers a simple and lossless compression method for compression of medical images. Method is based on wavelet decomposition of the medical images followed by the correlation analysis of coefficients. The correlation analyses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-02-12 S. M. Ramesh , A. Shanmugam

We propose a new wavelet-based method for density estimation when the data are size-biased. More specifically, we consider a power of the density of interest, where this power exceeds 1/2. Warped wavelet bases are employed, where warping is…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-08 Michel H. Montoril , Aluísio Pinheiro , Brani Vidakovic

We present X-sifter, a software package designed for near-optimal detection of sources in X-ray images and other forms of photon images in the Poisson-noise regime. The code is based on the Poisson-noise-matched filter (Ofek & Zackay),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Maayane T. Soumagnac , Eran O. Ofek , Shachar S. Israeli , Guy Nir , Imri A. Dickstein