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zea: A Toolbox for Cognitive Ultrasound Imaging

Tristan S.W. Stevens, Wessel L. van Nierop, Ben Luijten, Vincent van de Schaft, Oisin Nolan, Beatrice Federici, Louis D. van Harten, Simon W. Penninga, Noortje I.P. Schueler, Ruud J.G. van Sloun ยท 2025

We present zea (pronounced ze-yah), a Python package for cognitive ultrasound imaging that offers a flexible, modular, and differentiable pipeline for ultrasound data processing. Additionally, it inclโ€ฆ

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Overview of Controllability Definitions in Supervisory Control Theory

Jeroen J.A. Keiren, Michel A. Reniers ยท 2025

In the field of supervisory control theory, the literature often proposes different definitions for the same concept, making it difficult to understand how these definitions are related. This is definโ€ฆ

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ABCDEFGH: An Adaptation-Based Convolutional Neural Network-CycleGAN Disease-Courses Evolution Framework Using Generative Models in Health Education

Ruiming Min, Minghao Liu ยท 2025

With the advancement of modern medicine and the development of technologies such as MRI, CT, and cellular analysis, it has become increasingly critical for clinicians to accurately interpret various dโ€ฆ

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Modelowanie nieliniowej charakterystyki szerokopasmowych wzmacniaczy radiowych o zmiennym napi\k{e}ciu zasilania; Modeling Nonlinear Characteristics of Wideband Radio Frequency Amplifiers with Variable Supply Voltage

Kornelia Kostrzewska, Pawe{l} Kryszkiewicz ยท 2025

The work aims to propose a new nonlinear characteristics model for a wideband radio amplifier of variable supply voltage. An extended Rapp model proposal is presented. The proposed model has been veriโ€ฆ

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A Sharpness Based Loss Function for Removing Out-of-Focus Blur

Uditangshu Aurangabadkar, Darren Ramsook, Anil Kokaram ยท 2024

The success of modern Deep Neural Network (DNN) approaches can be attributed to the use of complex optimization criteria beyond standard losses such as mean absolute error (MAE) or mean squared error โ€ฆ

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Prototype Learning Guided Hybrid Network for Breast Tumor Segmentation in DCE-MRI

Lei Zhou, Yuzhong Zhang, Jiadong Zhang, Xuejun Qian, Chen Gong, Kun Sun, Zhongxiang Ding, Xing Wang, Zhenhui Li, Zaiyi Liu, Dinggang Shen ยท 2024

Automated breast tumor segmentation on the basis of dynamic contrast-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) has shown great promise in clinical practice, particularly for identifying the preโ€ฆ

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A Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach to the Solution of Open-Loop Generalized Nash Equilibria for Autonomous Racing

Edward L. Zhu, Francesco Borrelli ยท 2024

Dynamic games can be an effective approach for modeling interactive behavior between multiple competitive agents in autonomous racing and they provide a theoretical framework for simultaneous predictiโ€ฆ

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Learning to Solve Tasks with Exploring Prior Behaviours

Ruiqi Zhu, Siyuan Li, Tianhong Dai, Chongjie Zhang, Oya Celiktutan ยท 2023

Demonstrations are widely used in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for facilitating solving tasks with sparse rewards. However, the tasks in real-world scenarios can often have varied initial conditiโ€ฆ

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Accelerated deep self-supervised ptycho-laminography for three-dimensional nanoscale imaging of integrated circuits

Iksung Kang, Yi Jiang, Mirko Holler, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, A. F. J. Levi, Jeffrey Klug, Stefan Vogt, George Barbastathis ยท 2023

Three-dimensional inspection of nanostructures such as integrated circuits is important for security and reliability assurance. Two scanning operations are required: ptychographic to recover the complโ€ฆ

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Explicit Abnormality Extraction for Unsupervised Motion Artifact Reduction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Yusheng Zhou, Hao Li, Jianan Liu, Zhengmin Kong, Tao Huang, Euijoon Ahn, Zhihan Lv, Jinman Kim, David Dagan Feng ยท 2023

Motion artifacts compromise the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pose challenges to achieving diagnostic outcomes and image-guided therapies. In recent years, supervised deep learning aโ€ฆ

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A Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach to the Solution of Open-Loop Generalized Nash Equilibria

Edward L. Zhu, Francesco Borrelli ยท 2022

Dynamic games can be an effective approach to modeling interactive behavior between multiple non-cooperative agents and they provide a theoretical framework for simultaneous prediction and control in โ€ฆ

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Multi-task UNet: Jointly Boosting Saliency Prediction and Disease Classification on Chest X-ray Images

Hongzhi Zhu, Robert Rohling, Septimiu Salcudean ยท 2022

Human visual attention has recently shown its distinct capability in boosting machine learning models. However, studies that aim to facilitate medical tasks with human visual attention are still scarcโ€ฆ

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Wireless Power Transmission on Martian Surface for Zero-Energy Devices

Kursat Tekb{i}y{i}k, Dogay Altinel, Mustafa Cansiz, Gunes Karabulut Kurt ยท 2021

Exploration of the Red Planet is essential on the way through both human colonization and establishing a habitat on the planet. Due to the high costs of space missions, the use of distributed sensor nโ€ฆ

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Masks Fusion with Multi-Target Learning For Speech Enhancement

Liangchen Zhou, Wenbin Jiang, Jingyan Xu, Fei Wen, Peilin Liu ยท 2021

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) based time-frequency (T-F) mask estimation has shown remarkable effectiveness for speech enhancement. Typically, a single T-F mask is first estimated based on DNN aโ€ฆ

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Low-complexity Scaling Methods for DCT-II Approximations

D. F. G. Coelho, R. J. Cintra, A. Madanayake, S. Perera ยท 2021

This paper introduces a collection of scaling methods for generating $2N$-point DCT-II approximations based on $N$-point low-complexity transformations. Such scaling is based on the Hou recursive matrโ€ฆ

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A Joint Framework for Audio Tagging and Weakly Supervised Acoustic Event Detection Using DenseNet with Global Average Pooling

Chieh-Chi Kao, Bowen Shi, Ming Sun, Chao Wang ยท 2020

This paper proposes a network architecture mainly designed for audio tagging, which can also be used for weakly supervised acoustic event detection (AED). The proposed network consists of a modified Dโ€ฆ

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On speeding up an asymptotic-analysis-based homogenisation scheme for designing gradient porous structured materials using a zoning strategy

Dingchuan Xue, Yichao Zhu, Shaoshuai Li, Chang Liu, Weisheng Zhang, Xu Guo ยท 2019

Gradient porous structured materials possess significant potential of being applied in many engineering fields. To accelerate the design process of infill graded microstructures, a novel asymptotic hoโ€ฆ

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Refined Analysis of Asymptotically-Optimal Kinodynamic Planning in the State-Cost Space

Michal Kleinbort, Edgar Granados, Kiril Solovey, Riccardo Bonalli, Kostas E. Bekris, Dan Halperin ยท 2019

We present a novel analysis of AO-RRT: a tree-based planner for motion planning with kinodynamic constraints, originally described by Hauser and Zhou (AO-X, 2016). AO-RRT explores the state-cost spaceโ€ฆ

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Comments on "Compression of 3D Point Clouds Using a Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform"

Gustavo Sandri, Ricado L. de Queiroz, Philip A. Chou ยท 2018

The recently introduced coder based on region-adaptive hierarchical transform (RAHT) for the compression of point clouds attributes, was shown to have a performance competitive with the state-of-the-aโ€ฆ

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Invertible Autoencoder for domain adaptation

Yunfei Teng, Anna Choromanska, Mariusz Bojarski ยท 2018

The unsupervised image-to-image translation aims at finding a mapping between the source ($A$) and target ($B$) image domains, where in many applications aligned image pairs are not available at trainโ€ฆ

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