By coupling the wavelet transform with a particular nonlinear shrinking function, the Red-telescopic optimal wavelet estimation of the risk (TOWER) method is introduced for removing noise from signals. It is shown that the method yields convergence of the 2 risk to the actual solution with optimal rate. Moreover, the method is proved to be asymptotically efficient when the regularization parame...

Interpolating the missing traces of regularly or irregularly sampled seismic record is an exceedingly important issue in the geophysical community. Many modern acquisition and reconstruction methods are designed to exploit the transform domain sparsity of the few randomly recorded but informative seismic data using thresholding techniques. In this paper, to regularize randomly sampled seismic d...

we propose a wavelet based regression function estimator for the estimation of the regression function for a sequence of ?-missing random variables with a common one-dimensional probability density function. some asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator based on block thresholding are investigated. it is found that the estimators achieve optimal minimax convergence rates over large class...

Current methods for thresholding functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) maps are based on the well-known hypothesis-test framework, optimal for addressing novel theoretical claims. However, these methods as typically practiced have a strong bias toward protecting the null hypothesis, and thus may not provide an optimal balance between specificity and sensitivity in forming activation maps...