Invention Description Conducting learning-based models on large-scale unstructured geometric data, particularly volumetric 3D meshes, remains a significant challenge. While previous methods have employed graph convolutional approaches, they suffer from high space complexity, limiting efficient mini-batch training, as well as fixed short-range feature...

Invention Description Detecting bright point scatterers is important to quality assessments of sonar, radar and medical imaging systems, particularly as it pertains to resolution characterization. Prominent, or coherent, scatterers are typically detected using thresholding techniques in addition to statistical measures in the detection processing chain....

Invention Description Accurately identifying and sequencing rare genotypes within complex cell populations remains a major challenge across biological research. Conventional sequencing approaches often require large amounts of high-quality DNA, struggle with heterogeneous or degraded samples, and fail to retain the spatial or cellular context necessary...

Background Ground-based snow monitoring stations have long supported water management, forecasting, and planning. Recent advancements in remote sensing technology have improved the ability to monitor snow cover at broader scales. Satellite imagery, such as that from the Moderate Resolutiion Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), have been used to track...

Event-based cameras that asynchronously detect changes in pixel brightness with high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low-power, have been very successful for robotic vision and autonomous navigation. Depth estimation from monocular or stereo event cameras is an important task which helps improve downstream robotic localization and mapping...

The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable complex, and only about 2% of small molecules in the blood can penetrate it. Because of this, drug delivery to the brain is fairly ineffective. Research into receptors expressed on the BBB is promising, however, many receptors (glucose transporter 1, transferrin receptor, LDL-receptor...

The importance and health benefits of routine exercise are widely recognized. Because of this, there have been numerous devices and methods devised to track and quantify exercises. Some devices count steps, like the pedometer, while others measure body responses to exercise, suhttp://azte.technologypublisher.com/files/sites/ncs-m14-180l.pdfch as heart...

Background Mid to long-wave infrared detectors capture and interpret infrared radiation emitted by objects, and convert it into additional data. These detectors have wide ranging applications including gas sensing, thermal imaging, environmental monitoring, and defense applications. Typically, these detectors use micro- or nano-scale microwave-frequency...

SDS-PAGE is a ubiquitous analytical technique for separating proteins based on molecular weight. Existing loading buffers used in SDS-PAGE and other protein analyses techniques have difficulty in effectively solubilizing and stabilizing hydrophobic or lipidated proteins, particularly membrane proteins. These proteins tend to aggregate or precipitate...

Cellular force is important in activities including migration, proliferation and differentiation, which are mediated by interactions between the cell and the ECM. Monitoring these interactions helps to understand how and when mechanical cues play a role in cellular events and underlying mechanisms. However, there are limitations in spatial and temporal...