2 Filter: Filters and Ultrafilters 13 2.1 Definitions and basic properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.1 Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.2 Ultrafilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.3 Free Ultrafilters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.2 Collect properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Aim. To evaluate the dosimetric benefits of flattening filter-free (FFF) photon beams in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and Rapid Arc (RA) over conventional CSI methods. Methods and Materials. Five patients treated with IMRT using static multileaf collimators (MLC) were randomly selected for this retrospective study. Dynamic MLC IMRT, RA, and conformal therapy (3DCRT) were iterate...

This paper studies the distributed state estimation problem for a class of discrete time-varying systems over sensor networks. Firstly, it is shown that a networked Kalman filter with optimal gain parameter is actually a centralized filter, since it requires each sensor to have global information which is usually forbidden in large networks. Then, a sub-optimal distributed Kalman filter (DKF) i...

BACKGROUND Traditional detection of Leishmania from ulcers involves collection of invasive specimens that cause discomfort, require technical expertise, and carry risks of invasive procedures. We compared traditional diagnostic methods with a molecular noninvasive filter paper-based method for the diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis. METHODS Consecutive patients presenting to the Leishmania ...

The optimization of the free parameters in the lattice structure of linear phase perfect reconstruction filter bank (LPPRFB) is commonly highly nonlinear, therefore the free parameters should be carefully initialized. Such methods have been published for constrained-length LPPRFB (CLLPPRFB), i.e. LPPRFB with filter length MK, where M is the decimation factor and K is an integer. In contrast to ...

Median filter is widely used to remove impulse noise without blurring sharp edges. However, when noise level increased, or with thin edges, median filter may work poorly. This paper proposes a new filter, which will detect edges along four possible directions, and then replace noise corrupted pixel with estimated noise-free edge median value. Simulations show that the proposed multi-stage direc...

a multi-objective optimization procedure has been developed to determine some kinetic parameters of free radical polymerization of vinyl acetate based on genetic algorithm. for this purpose, mathematical modeling of free radical polymerization of vinyl acetate is carried out first and then selected kinetic parameters are optimized by minimizing objective functions defined from comparing experim...