An algorithm for detecting neural processes in serial optical sections for use in an automated three-dimensional neural reconstruction system is presented. This parsimonious, nonlinear, psychophysically motivated algo...
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An algorithm for detecting neural processes in serial optical sections for use in an automated three-dimensional neural reconstruction system is presented. This parsimonious, nonlinear, psychophysically motivated algorithm addresses the problems specific to neural element detection and localization, viz., images with minimal resolution, operators with small spatial supports, highly curved, filamentous features, large variation in feature intensity profile, poor signal-to-noise ratio, and determination of depth without stereo. One first finds the magnitude and orientation of the maximum intensity second directional derivative. A family of curves is locally fitted to these data, and the projections of the data on the curve family are found. If a pixel lies on a curve with sufficient total projection, it is labeled with the magnitude, orientation, curvature, spatial extent, and element displacement. Depth is interpolated from the spatial extent data for corresponding neighborhoods in three adjacent (in depth) images by using an approximation to the depth-dependent optical point spread function. Experimental results using photomicrographs of cat visual cortex are presented.< >
The authors develop a path metric for sequential search based on the linear model. The metric forms the heart of an edge-linking algorithm that combines edge elements enhanced by an optimal filter. From a starting nod...
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The authors develop a path metric for sequential search based on the linear model. The metric forms the heart of an edge-linking algorithm that combines edge elements enhanced by an optimal filter. From a starting node, transitions are made to the goal nodes by a maximum likelihood metric. This metric requires only local calculations on the search space and its use in edge linking provides more accurate results than other linking techniques.< >
The application of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of x‐ray masks is essential in the development of x‐ray lithography technology. In this paper we present experimental results on the patterning of sub...
The application of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of x‐ray masks is essential in the development of x‐ray lithography technology. In this paper we present experimental results on the patterning of submicron (2–0.25 μm) features into a single‐layer negative e‐beam resist and then subsequent transfer of these patterns onto a 0.4 μm‐thick tungsten film by reactive ion etching. To study the dependence of the proximity effect on the substrate material, a comparison of linewidths and sidewall profiles of electron beam resist images on silicon, silicon dioxide on silicon, and tungsten on silicon wafers has been established.
The controlled pointing of an Earth-orbiting astronomical telescope in the presence of time-dependent gravity-gradient torques is studied using recent techniques for the analysis and synthesis of time-varying linear s...
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The controlled pointing of an Earth-orbiting astronomical telescope in the presence of time-dependent gravity-gradient torques is studied using recent techniques for the analysis and synthesis of time-varying linear scalar dynamical systems. We present results which show that effective adaptive control of unstable motions due to gravity gradient torques can be accomplished, resulting in high pointing accuracy and stability for astronomical telescopes in both circular and elliptical orbits.
As multiprocessor software solutions find their way into critical applications such as avionics as a means of increasing performance and reliability, the need for both debugging and testing tools increases dramaticall...
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As multiprocessor software solutions find their way into critical applications such as avionics as a means of increasing performance and reliability, the need for both debugging and testing tools increases dramatically. The authors focus on the gathering of accurate run-time information providing support for both debugging and testing of embedded multiprocessor systems by using run-time identification of simple events and postexecution identification of compound events. Additionally, they propose a way of combining specification-based (black-box) system testing and automatic monitoring to substantially reduce the complexity, tedium, and cost of complete structural (white-box) testing.< >
An approach is presented for efficiently designing and implementing FIR (finite impulse response) filter banks with equal passband bandwidths. The overall bank of L filters is generated from a prototype 2Lth-band filt...
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An approach is presented for efficiently designing and implementing FIR (finite impulse response) filter banks with equal passband bandwidths. The overall bank of L filters is generated from a prototype 2Lth-band filter with the aid of a few additional coefficients and adders. The attractive properties of these filter banks are that the sum of filter outputs is guaranteed to be a pure delay and the passband bandwidths are the same for all the filters.< >
A procedure for the reformulation of Chang's criterion (1981) for the absence of zero-input limit cycles in recursive digital filters is presented. The technique employs the standard bilinear transform to convert ...
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A procedure for the reformulation of Chang's criterion (1981) for the absence of zero-input limit cycles in recursive digital filters is presented. The technique employs the standard bilinear transform to convert a frequency-domain criterion into a polynomial form in terms of matrix transformations. The use of the method is illustrated with design examples applied to determine the stability region for certain single-quantizer recursive filter structures. The results can be utilized, e.g., in the design of an error feedback network for a given filter such that limit cycles are eliminated.< >
We describe the applicability of oxygen based Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) etching of diamond for the purpose of fabricating electronic test structures and recessed gate field effect transistors. Boron doped hom...
We describe the applicability of oxygen based Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) etching of diamond for the purpose of fabricating electronic test structures and recessed gate field effect transistors. Boron doped homoepitaxial diamond films grown in a microwave assisted CVD reactor were used for this study. Etch rates from 8 nm/min up to 0.5 μm/min. were achieved depending on etch parameters.
The problem of using the idle cycles of a number of high-performance workstations, interconnected by a high-speed network, for solving computationally intensive tasks is discussed. The classes of distributed applicati...
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The problem of using the idle cycles of a number of high-performance workstations, interconnected by a high-speed network, for solving computationally intensive tasks is discussed. The classes of distributed applications examined require some form of synchronization among the sub-tasks, hence the need for coscheduling to guarantee that sub-tasks start at the same time and execute at the same pace on a group of workstations. A model of the system that allows the definition of an objective function to be maximized is presented. Then a quadratic time and linear space algorithm is derived for computing the optimal coscheduling.< >
An adaptive VLSI neuroprocessor based on vector quantization algorithm has been developed for real-time high-ratio image compression applications. This VLSI neural-network-based vector quantization (NNVQ) module combi...
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An adaptive VLSI neuroprocessor based on vector quantization algorithm has been developed for real-time high-ratio image compression applications. This VLSI neural-network-based vector quantization (NNVQ) module combines a fully parallel vector quantizer with a pipelined codebook generator for a broad area of data compression applications. The NNVQ module is capable of producing good-quality reconstructed data at high compression ratios more than 20. The vector quantizer chip has been designed, fabricated, and tested. It contains 64 inner-product neural units and a high-speed extendable winner-take-all block. This mixed-signal chip occupies a compact silicon area of 4.6*6.8 mm/sup 2/ in a 2.0- mu m scalable CMOS technology. The throughput rate of the 2- mu m NNVQ module is 2 million vectors per second and its equivalent computation power is 3.33 billion connections per second.< >
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