We characterized the bronchopulmonary distribution of a 0.9 percent saline aerosol (1.12 microM) labelled with 99mTc sulfur colloid in nine normal subjects and five patients with CF. Homogeneity of distribution was quantified using indices derived from computerized analysis of Anger camera pulmonary images including skew (a measure of distribution asymmetry) and kurtosis (a measure of distribut...

In this paper, we provide a context for the modeling approaches that have been developed to describe non-Gaussian diffusion behavior, which is ubiquitous in diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of water in biological tissue. Subsequently, we focus on the formalism of the continuous time random walk theory to extract properties of subdiffusion and superdiffusion through novel simplifica...

Rotating machinery vibration analysis involves a convolute mixture because of the propagation medium, and the signals recorded by sensors in an industrial application are often disrupted by the environment. Deconvolution is a signal processing method for convolution of vibration sources, spectral kurtosis is a statistical tool which can indicate the presence of series of transients and their lo...

It is well-established that the …nancial time series display some stylized fatcs such as volatility clustering, high kurtosis, low starting and slow-decaying autocorrelation function and the Talyor e¤ect as well. In order to evaluate volatility models’capacity in capturing such facts, we apply both standard and robust measures of kurtosis and autocorrelation of squares to GARCH, EGARCH and ARSV...

Here we describe and provide diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data that was acquired in neural tissue and a physical phantom. Data acquired in biological tissue includes: fixed rat brain (acquired at 9.4 T) and spinal cord (acquired at 16.4 T) and in normal human brain (acquired at 3 T). This data was recently used for evaluation of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) contrasts and for ...

The effect of the rotational speed and axial torque on the diagnostics of tapered rolling element bearing defects was investigated. The accelerometer was mounted on the bearing housing and connected to Sound and Vibration Analyzer (SVAN 958) and was used to measure the accelerations from the bearing housing. The data obtained from the bearing was processed to detect damage of the bearing using ...

The Black–Scholes* option pricing model is commonly applied to value a wide range of option contracts. However, the model often inconsistently prices deep in-the-money and deep out-of-the-money options. Options professionals refer to this well-known phenomenon as a volatility ‘skew’ or ‘smile’. In this paper, we examine an extension of the Black–Scholes model developed by Corrado and Su‡ that s...

Because of the high sampling rate, coherent Time of Arrival (TOA) estimation algorithms are not practical for low cost, low complexity 60 GHz systems. In this paper, energy detect (ED) based non-coherent TOA estimation algorithm is presented. The expected values of the skewness and kurtosis with respect to the signal to noise ratio (SNR) are investigated. It is shown that the ratio of kurtosis ...

The impact of the third (skewness) and fourth (kurtosis) reduced centered moments on the statistical modeling of E1 lines in complex atomic spectra is investigated through the use of Gram-Charlier, Normal Inverse Gaussian and Generalized Gaussian distributions. It is shown that the modeling of unresolved transition arrays with nonGaussian distributions may reveal more detailed structures, due e...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The prognostic value of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging in patients with glioblastoma is controversial. We investigated the added prognostic value of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging to clinical parameters and molecular biomarkers in patients with glioblastoma by using histogram analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study consisted of 61 patients w...