For biologists studying the morphology of cells, electron microscopy (EM) is the method of choice with its nm resolution. However, the time necessary to acquire EM image series is long and often limits both the number and size of samples imaged. This paper presents a strategy for fast imaging and automated selection of regions of interest that significantly accelerates this process. In particul...

A delayed version of a bandlimited signal can be represented by convolving a sinc function and the signal itself. By using this property, a novel constrained LMS algorithm that estimates the difference in arrival times of signal at two spatially separated receivers with multipath propagations is developed. The time delay obtained can be used to localize targets in sonar and radar systems. Intro...

Advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems have triggered an enormous interest in wireless sensor networks (WSN). WSN are formed by large numbers of densely deployed nodes enabled with sensing and actuating capabilities. These nodes have very limited processing and memory capabilities, limited energy resources and it is envisioned that they will be mass produced, to reduce costs. Several chal...

BACKGROUND: Catheter, needle, and electrode misplacement in navigated neurosurgery can result in ineffective treatment and severe complications. OBJECTIVE: To assess the Ommaya ventricular catheter localization accuracy both along the planned trajectory and at the target. METHODS: We measured the localization error along the ventricular catheter and on its tip for 15 consecutive patients who un...

background: breast conservation therapy (bct) is the standard of care for early stage breast cancer. the procedure can be a challenge for the surgeon if the lesion is non-palpable. for excision of non-palpable breast lesions, they should be localized precisely before surgery. there are different techniques such as the wgl (wire guided localization), roll (radio-guided occult lesion localization...

We examine whether the task goal affects the accuracy and precision with which participants can localize an unseen hand. Proprioceptive localization was measured using three different tasks: two goal-directed movement tasks (reaching to and reproducing final hand-target location) and a perceptual estimation task in which participants judged the location of the hand-target relative to visual ref...

This paper presents a novel energy-based target localization method in wireless sensor networks with selected sensors. In this method, sensors use Turbo Product Code (TPC) to transmit decisions to the fusion center. TPC can reduce bit error probability if communication channel errors exist. Moreover, in this method, thresholds for the energy-based target localization are designed using a heuris...

localization of sources in patients with focal seizure has recently attracted many attentions. in the severe cases of focal seizure, there is a possibility of doing neurosurgery operation to remove the defected tissue. the prosperity of this heavy operation completely depends on the accuracy of source localization. to increase this accuracy, this paper presents a new weighted beamforming method...

Localization is one of the key techniques in wireless sensor network. The location estimation methods can be classified into target/source localization and node self-localization. In target localization, we mainly introduce the energy-based method. Then we investigate the node self-localization methods. Since the widespread adoption of the wireless sensor network, the localization methods are d...