Purpose: The article proposes an automated method for estimating mean scatterer spacing (MSS) in biological tissues using ultrasound signals. It employs singular spectrum analysis (SSA) with a novel entropy-based crit...
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Purpose: The article proposes an automated method for estimating mean scatterer spacing (MSS) in biological tissues using ultrasound signals. It employs singular spectrum analysis (SSA) with a novel entropy-based criterion to enhance accuracy and eliminate the need for manual parameter tuning. The method is validated using both simulated and real signals, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting microstructural changes in tissues. Methods: The proposed SSA + entropy method estimates the MSS from ultrasound signals using SSA combined with a relative entropy-based criterion. This approach determines the optimal number of eigenvector pairs to reconstruct the periodic part of the signal by identifying the minimum in the entropy curve—a point that corresponds to the number of underlying periodic components, even in noisy conditions. For experimental validation, ex vivo bovine skeletal muscle was analyzed. RF data were collected at a controlled temperature of using a 3.5-MHz transducer. The MSS results obtained via SSA were also independently verified using microscopy and image analysis of muscle fiber spacing, confirming the effectiveness of the entropy-based SSA approach. Results: The MSS estimation method's accuracy decreases as jitter or Ad noise levels increase, with the method performing well when the estimated MSS is within 10% of the true value. Additionally, the standard deviation of MSS estimates increases as Ad levels and jitter values rise. In phantom experiments, MSS was measured using different transducer frequencies with varying results at each frequency. When applied to ex vivo bovine skeletal muscle tissue, the MSS estimation was validated using both RF and imaging methods, with three consistent groups of MSS values observed, confirming the method's applicability and reliability. Conclusion: The proposed method combines SSA and entropy to automatically estimate medium periodicity in ultrasound, eliminating the need for operator intervention. It succes
Novel digital FIR (finite-impulse-response) prefilter structures with periodic impulse response are introduced. The prefilter consists of an interpolated recursive running sum coupled to a nonrecursive structure. By a...
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Novel digital FIR (finite-impulse-response) prefilter structures with periodic impulse response are introduced. The prefilter consists of an interpolated recursive running sum coupled to a nonrecursive structure. By appropriately cascading these prefilters, large stopband attenuation can be obtained, relieving the task of the equalizer. A systematic design procedure for the cascade of prefilters and the equalizer is given, leading to computationally efficient FIR filters. The procedure is based on combining the prefilter-equalizer concepts of J.W. Adams and A.N. Wilson, Jr. (1983) with the IFIR (interpolated FIR) concepts of Y. Neuvo et al. (1987). Design examples are included, demonstrating that the proposed design procedure leads to significant savings in the number of arithmetic operations as compared to recently proposed designs.
A synthesis, procedure for tridiagonal state-space structures is presented that yields structures with a reduced number of multipliers and eliminates zero-input and constant-input limit cycles. The output roundoff noi...
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A synthesis, procedure for tridiagonal state-space structures is presented that yields structures with a reduced number of multipliers and eliminates zero-input and constant-input limit cycles. The output roundoff noise is minimized by optimizing some free parameters. Some design examples are presented illustrating the synthesis procedure.< >
This work presents a theoretical and experimental study based on a polished plastic optical fiber sensor. The sensor sensitivity was 1363 %/RIU in a range of 1.33 to 1.38, showing a correlation with the theoretical an...
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This paper introduces a Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (CHIL) setup to explore the integration of an Offshore Wind Power Plant (WPP) with an Oil & Gas platform. The platform is represented through a model of its ...
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In this paper we investigate a procedure for blind estimation of room reverberation time, that is, without a priori knowledge of the room impulse response. A neural network based method is proposed, which is robust to...
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Waste characterization is essential in planning to reduce waste, create recycling programs and properly use public funds. Traditionally, waste characterization is successfully performed by on-site sampling. This monit...
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This paper presents three effective proposals for a twostage algorithm for one-microphone reverberant speech enhancement. The original algorithm is divided into two blocks: one that deals with the coloration effect, d...
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The very low sensitivity properties of switched-capacitor filtering structures implemented as a parallel connection of two allpass sections has already been demonstrated theoretically and verified by computer simulati...
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The very low sensitivity properties of switched-capacitor filtering structures implemented as a parallel connection of two allpass sections has already been demonstrated theoretically and verified by computer simulation. This paper describes the design of a fifth-order lowpass elliptic filter using this technique, to satisfy specifications commonly used in video frequency applications. Operating with a sampling frequency of 16 MHz, the IC prototype was implemented in a standard double-poly CMOS 0.8 μm process. The experimental results obtained with the fabricated IC showed a passband frequency deviation smaller than 0.08 dB up to the passband edge frequency of 3.4 MHz, and an output noise power of 0.97 μVRMS/√Hz, resulting in a dynamic range of 49.1 dB.
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