5 research outputs found
Detection of cell-cyclic elements in mis-sampled gene expression data using a robust Capon estimator
We present a method for the estimation of possible cell cyclic
elements in mis-sampled microarray data. Accurate assessment
of the frequency content of microarray data gives insight
into genes which could be cell-cycle regulated. Cell
cycle regulation is one component of the complex network
of genetic regulatory processes and is especially relevant to
the study of cancer. As cDNA microarray experiments involve
human sampling of cell populations, slight variations
in the sampling times invariably occur. Here, we propose estimating
the frequency content of microarray data using the
recent robust Capon estimator, and formulate a suitable uncertainty
region to minimize over. The estimator is shown
to yield robust estimates with real microarray data and to
identify cell-cyclic genes that elude both the traditional Periodogram
and the Capon spectral estimator
On the efficient estimation of blood velocities
Pulsed wave (PW) Doppler ultrasound systems are commonly
used to examine blood flow dynamics and the technique
plays a very important role in numerous diagnostic
applications. Commonly, narrow-band PW systems estimate
the blood velocity using an autocorrelation-based estimator.
Herein, we examine a recently proposed hybrid frequency
estimator, and via extensive numerical simulations
using simulated blood scatterers show the achievable performance
gain of this method as compared to the traditional
approach
A hybrid phase-based single frequency estimator
The topic of low computational complexity frequency estimation of a single complex sinusoid corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise has received significant attention over the last decades due to the wide applicability of such estimators in a variety of fields. In this letter, we propose a computationally fast and statistically improved hybrid phase-based estimator that outperforms other recently proposed approaches, lowering the signal-to-noise ratio at which the Cramér–Rao lower bound is closely followed
Parameter estimation and equalization techniques for communication channels with multipath and multiple frequency offsets
We consider estimation of frequency offset (FO) and equalization of a wireless communication channel, within a general framework which allows for different frequency offsets for various multipaths. Such a scenario may arise due to different Doppler shifts associated with various multipaths, or in situations where multiple basestations are used to transmit identical information. For this general framework, we propose an approximative maximum-likelihood estimator exploiting the correlation property of the transmitted pilot signal. We further show that the conventional minimum mean-square error equalizer is computationally cumbersome, as the effective channel-convolution matrix changes deterministically between symbols, due to the multiple FOs. Exploiting the structural property of these variations, we propose a computationally efficient recursive algorithm for the equalizer design. Simulation results show that the proposed estimator is statistically efficient, as the mean-square estimation error attains the Crame´r-Rao lower bound. Further, we show via extensive simulations that our proposed scheme significantly outperforms equalizers not employing FO estimation
On the Efficient Estimation of Blood Velocities
Pulsed wave (PW) Doppler ultrasound systems are commonly
used to examine blood flow dynamics and the technique
plays a very important role in numerous diagnostic
applications. Commonly, narrow-band PW systems estimate
the blood velocity using an autocorrelation-based estimator.
Herein, we examine a recently proposed hybrid frequency
estimator, and via extensive numerical simulations
using simulated blood scatterers show the achievable performance
gain of this method as compared to the traditional
approach