s Presented at National or International Scientific Conferences: Altman MB, Vesper BJ, Smith BD, Stinauer, MA, Pelizzari CA, Aydogan B, Radosevich JA, Chmura SJ, Roeske JC. Dosimetric Characterization and Biological Validation of a Novel Phantom for Three-Dimensional IMRT-Based in Vitro Experiments. Med Phys. 35(6): 2816. 2008 Hoggarth MA, Stinauer MA, Altman MB, Roeske JC. Automated Colony Cou...

Retinal layer thickness, evaluated as a function of spatial position from optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is an important diagnostics marker for many retinal diseases. However, due to factors such as speckle noise, low image contrast, irregularly shaped morphological features such as retinal detachments, macular holes, and drusen, accurate segmentation of individual retinal layers is ...

Ranking is the central problem for many applications such as web search, recommendation systems, and visual comparison of images. In this paper, the multiple kernel learning framework is generalized for the learning to rank problem. This approach extends the existing learning to rank algorithms by considering multiple kernel learning and consequently improves their effectiveness. The proposed a...

The purpose of the present text is to present the theory and techniques behind the Gray Level Coocurrence Matrix (GLCM) method, and the stateof-the-art of the field, as applied to two dimensional images. It does not present a survey of practical results. 1 Gray Level Coocurrence Matrices In statistical texture analysis, texture features are computed from the statistical distribution of observed...

Split Bregman methods introduced in [T. Goldstein and S. Osher, SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 2(2009), pp. 323–343] have been demonstrated to be efficient tools for solving total variation norm minimization problems, which arise from partial differential equation based image restoration such as image denoising and magnetic resonance imaging reconstruction from sparse samples. In this paper, we prove th...

Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This hampers accurate quantitative analyses. Missing flux can be recovered by fusing images with that preserve structures. However, the commonly adopted image fusion approaches do not maintain simplicity of beam response fu...

We have used spherically bent quartz crystal to image a laser-generated shock in a foam medium. The foam targets had a density of 0.16 g/cm(3) and thickness of 150 microm, an aluminum/copper pusher drove the shock. The experiment was performed at the Titan facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using a 2 ns, 250 J laser pulse to compress the foam target, and a short pulse (10 ps, 35...