A general simulation procedure is described to validate model fitting algorithms for complex likelihood functions that are utilized in periodic cancer screening trials. Although screening programs have existed for a few decades, there are still many unsolved problems, such as how age or hormone affects the screening sensitivity, the sojourn time in the preclinical state, and the transition prob...

ÐImage matching applications such as tracking and stereo commonly use the sum-of-squared-difference (SSD) measure to determine the best match. However, this measure is sensitive to outliers and is not robust to template variations. Alternative measures have also been proposed that are more robust to these issues. We improve upon these using a probabilistic formulation for image matching in term...

In the research literature, maximum likelihood principles were applied to stereo matching by altering the stereo pair so that the difference would have a Gaussian distribution. Here in this paper we present a novel method of applying maximum likelihood to stereo matching. In our approach, we measure the real noise distribution from a training set, and then construct a new metric which we denote...

We present a novel method to reconstruct the mass distribution of galaxy clusters from their gravitational lens effect on background galaxies. The method is based on a least-x 2 fit of the two-dimensional gravitational cluster potential. The method combines information from shear and magnification by the cluster lens and is designed to easily incorporate possible additional information. We desc...