Yongxin Zhang, Farhang Farhangfar, Leonard Giblin, David Wolf, Francesca Vitelli, Yu Zhou, Donnie Rudd Abstract—Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are defined by the International Society of Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering (ISHAGE) as those at low side scatter, positive for CD34 and CD45dim for their numeration with flow cytometry. However, we found that these CD34+ cells increase their granula...

Introduction: Image quality and accuracy of in vivo activity quantification in SPECT are affected by collimator penetration and scatter components, especially in high energy imaging. These phenomena highly depend on the collimator characteristic and photon energy. The presence of penetrated and scattered photons from collimator in SPECT images degrades spatial resolution, contr...

In the paper, fuzzy fisherface is extended to image matrix, namely, the fuzzy 2DLDA (F2DLDA). In the proposed method, we calculate the membership degree matrix by fuzzy K-nearest neighbor (FKNN), and then incorporate the membership degree into the definition of the between-class scatter matrix and the within-class scatter matrix. Finally, we get the fuzzy between-class scatter matrix and fuzzy ...

Excessive imaging dose from repeated scans and poor image quality mainly due to scatter contamination are the two bottlenecks of cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging. Compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction algorithms show promises in recovering faithful signals from low-dose projection data but do not serve well the needs of accurate CBCT imaging if effective scatter correction is not in place. Scatter ...

Introduction: The key characteristics of positron emission tomography (PET) are its quantitative capability and its sensitivity, which allow the in vivo imaging of biochemical interactions with small amounts of tracer concentrations. Therefore, accurate quantification is important. However, it can be sensitive to several physical factors. The aim of this investigation is the assessment of the e...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of hyperspectral X-ray imaging i.e, an imaging modality where spectral information on detected X-rays is available, for the removal of scatter in mammography. Features that suggest the presence of cancer are often low in contrast or small in size and therefore a good image quality is required in order to locate them. Current mammography system...

The evolutionary approach called scatter search is originated from strategies for creating composite decision rules and surrogate constraints. Recent studies demonstrate the practical advantages of these approaches. Scatter search method have recently been investigated optimization technique and alternative of the other Meta heuristic methods. The scatter search is an evolutionary search method...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess attention problems and intratest scatter (variability) of responses to standardized tests of expressive language by preschool-age children who do (CWS) and do not stutter (CWNS). Method: Participants were 40 preschool-age CWS (30 males) and 46 CWNS (32 males). Between-group comparisons of attention were made using attention subscales of the Child...

In this paper we present a semi-supervised sub-manifold discriminant analysis algorithm. To separate each sub-manifold constructed by each class, we define the within-manifold scatter, between-manifold scatter and total-manifold scatter matrices. The scatter matrices are robust to outlier and diverse-density clusters. Kernelization and direct non-linear embedding are also developed. Experimenta...