Reconstructing 3D refractive index profile of scatterers using optical microscopy measurements presents several challenges over the conventional microwave and RF domain measurement scenario. These include phaseless and polarization-insensitive measurements, small numerical aperture, as well as a Green's function where spatial frequencies are integrated in a weighted manner such that far-field angular ...

Structured illumination microscopy is able to improve the spatial resolution of wide-field fluorescence imaging by applying sinusoidal stripe pattern illumination to the sample. The corresponding computational image reconstruction requires precise knowledge of the pattern’s parameters, which are its phase (φ) and wave vector (<b>p</b>). Here, a computationally inexpensive method for estimation of ...

In this work we have explored the live-cell friendly nanoscopy method Multiple Signal Classification Algorithm (MUSICAL) for multi-colour imaging of various organelles and sub-cellular structures in the cardiomyoblast cell line H2c9. We have tested MUSICAL for fast (up to 230Hz), multi-colour time-lapse sequences of various sub-cellular structures (mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, microtubules, ...

The present study has demonstrated to produce a reliable PVDF copolymer focused transducers from a layer-by-layer deposition method by engraving milled spherical cavies in a PEI polymer substrate. The proposed method which process P(VDF-TrFE) from the fluid phase, is adhesive-free in the sense that it does not require any additional adhesive layers for material binding. The transducer was acoustically ...

This work extends upon our simple feature-based multichannel SAR segmentation method to incorporate highly desirable statistical properties into a computationally simple approach. The desirable properties include Markov random field contextual smoothing and goodness-of-fit testing to automatically obtain the significant number of classes. To achieve this we need to find an explicit class model to ...

Surface-based Ku-band radar altimetry investigations indicate that the radar signal is typically backscattered from well above the snow–sea ice interface. However, this would induce a bias in satellite altimeter sea ice thickness retrievals not reflected by buoy validation. Our study presents a mechanism to potentially explain this paradox: probabilistic quasi-specular radar scattering from the ...

During the N-ICE2015 drift expedition north-west of Svalbard, we observed the establishment and development of algal communities in first-year ice (FYI) ridges and at the snow-ice interface. Despite some indications of being hot spots for biological activity, ridges are under-studied largely because they are complex structures that are difficult to sample. Snow infiltration communities can grow at ...

The damping ratio is a calculated feature that measures the contrast between oil-slicked water and the open ocean in SAR data. To implement the damping ratio, the current literature suggests estimating the open water backscatter by taking strips of undefined width across the range direction, obtaining the damping ratio as a function of incidence angle. We show in this paper that the method proposed ...

The interchange dynamics and velocity scaling of blob-like plasma filaments are investigated using a two-field reduced fluid model. For incompressible flows due to buoyancy, the maximum velocity is proportional to the square root of the relative amplitude and the square root of its cross-field size. For compressible flows in a non-uniform magnetic field, this square root scaling only holds ...

Analyzing deep neural networks (DNNs) via information plane (IP) theory has gained tremendous attention recently to gain insight into, among others, DNNs’ generalization ability. However, it is by no means obvious how to estimate the mutual information (MI) between each hidden layer and the input/desired output to construct the IP. For instance, hidden layers with many neurons require MI estimators ...