A new model describing the Weibel instability of a relativistic electron beam propagating through a resistive plasma is developed. For finite-temperature beams, a new class of negative-energy magnetosound waves is identified, whose growth due to collisional dissipation destabilizes the beam-plasma system even for high beam temperatures. We perform 2D and 3D particle-in-cell simulations and show...

This paper describes a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) to understand the detailed 3D shape of objects. While GANs have been used in this domain previously, they are notoriously hard to train, especially for the complex joint data distribution over 3D objects of many categories and orientations. Our method extends previous work by employing the Wasserstein distanc...

In this article we introduce JULIDE, a software toolkit developed to perform the 3D reconstruction, intensity normalization, volume standardization by 3D image registration and voxel-wise statistical analysis of autoradiographs of mouse brain sections. This software tool has been developed in the open-source ITK software framework and is freely available under a GPL license. The article present...

The maximum intensity projection (MIP) is a useful tool to visualize 3D images. The processing time of the MIP depends on the number of voxels of the 3D data. Therefore, it is very difficult to realize the MIP of the 3D medical image in real time. In order to overcome the large amount of computation for the MIP, we have developed a hierarchical MIP method that can perform the first-step MIP wit...

This paper describes an augmented reality system that incorporates a real-time dense stereo vision system. Analysis of range and intensity data is used to perform two functions: 1) 3D detection and tracking of the user’s fingertip or a pen to provide natural 3D pointing gestures, and 2) computation of the 3D position and orientation of the user’s viewpoint without the need for fiducial marks ca...

We present our concepts for pre-operative planning of brain tumor resections. The proposed system uses a combination of traditional and novel visualization techniques in order to support the surgeon during the planning process. A set of multimodal 2D and 3D views conveys the relation between the lesion and the various structures at risk and also depicts data uncertainty. To facilitate efficient...

In this paper, we give the definition for the voronoi diagram and its dual graph – Delaunay triangulation for 3D cuboids. We prove properties of the 3D Delaunay triangulation, and provide algorithms to construct and update the Delaunay triangulation. The Delaunay triangulation data structure is used to perform proximity searches for both static and kinetic cases. We describe experimental result...

Background Radio-frequency catheter ablation (RFCA) in children is difficult because the size of heart chamber change with age and the catheter made for adults is not appropriate for a child. Three-dimensional (3D) images for electroanatomic mapping (EAM) have been used to create from images of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) which need to perform entailed by contrast medium injection...

A multiple-camera system for 3D pose reconstruction is presented. First, body parts of the user are detected. Each camera has a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) processor used to perform this heavy-load image processing task. The detected hand and head candidate positions are then transmitted wirelessly from each camera to a central processor using a low-power ZigBee network. Finally, th...