Calibration is the degree to which an agent's probability estimates (subjective probabilities) correspond to actual frequencies (or, the objective probabilities underlying them). Cognitive psychologists have studied human calibration as a part of their program to investigate how human cognition deviates from the ideal. In gambling, one attempts to estimate the odds of an event so as to maximize...

The chemometric calibration performance was systematically investigated by two parameters (changing the chemical matrix as well as the signal-to-noise ratio) of the NIR (near-infrared) spectrum. Three different analytes (hexane, cyclohexane, toluene) were selected and heptane was used as a solvent. The degree of spectral difference significantly affected the calibration performance. The largest...

An improved method for intensity-uniformity calibration of diffraction data collected on spiral-readout image-plate (IP) systems is described. This technique is applicable to all types of spiral-readout IP detectors. The procedure utilizes an attenuated direct-beam scan of the IP to generate a radial-sensitivity calibration table. Exposure and scanning of the calibration frame are done on the s...

Based upon the standard IEEE 1309, a new calibration method for electromagnetic (EM) probes is proposed. The aforementioned method compares the electric field strength measured with the EM probe subject to calibration with the E-field intensity calculated through a linear interpolation of the corrected measurement using a reference EM probe. The corrected measurement results are computed by mea...

Camera calibration is essential to obtain 3D information from 2D image, for underwater camera self-calibration, because the linear model can not accurately describe the imaging geometry of real cameras, the underwater camera nonlinear model and its calibration method are studied. According to the relationship between underwater and air in the camera focal length, principal point and no vertical...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was twofold: to evaluate the quantitative stability of a SPECT/CT gamma camera over time and to determine if daily flood acquisitions can reliably serve as calibration factors for quantitative SPECT. Using a cylindrical water phantom filled with measured amounts of (99m)Tc, factors were calculated to convert counts/cc to activity/cps. Measurements were made ...

The amount of light scattered by airborne particles inside an aerosol photometer will vary not only with the mass concentration, but also with particle properties such as size, shape, and composition. This study conducted controlled experiments to compare the measurements of a real-time photometer, the SidePak AM510 monitor (SidePak), with gravimetric mass. PM sources tested were outdoor aeroso...

Respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) can measure breathing patterns noninvasively. Calibration is required for rib cage and abdomen transducers utilizing breaths with different compartment contribution correlated with tidal volume measured by integrated pneumotachography (PNT). This study was performed to determine if RIP remains accurate during sleep states following calibration in the ...

In multivariate calibration using a spectral dataset, it is difficult to optimize nonsystematic parameters in a quantitative model, i.e., spectral pretreatment, latent factors and variable selection. In this study, we describe a novel and systematic approach that uses a processing trajectory to select three parameters including different spectral pretreatments, variable importance in the projec...