Our research group has made an open access dataset for image reconstruction available at the following link: www.fips.fi/dataset.php The measurement data was collected and documented by K. Hämäläinen, L. Harhanen, A. Kallonen, A. Kujanpää, E. Niemi and S. Siltanen. Our group used the walnut data for testing several tomographic reconstruction algorithms, as you can see […]
Category: algorithms
Research idealism VS real world
Have you ever had the experience of a kid who asks you a candid and simple question, that has a complicated answer? The kind of question like "Why we have so much and there are kids starving in India?", where you think "I wish the world was so simple and fair, like the spirit with […]
Creating a voice: a challenging inverse problem (part 1)
This month you can read about an exciting inverse problem on the new issue of Physics World. Professor Samuli Siltanen from University of Helsinki was interviewed regarding the current research in Finland for synthesizing speech and creating artificial voice. This study is part of a big research project in Finland, connecting University of Helsinki, University of Tampere, […]
Mathematics and breast cancer prevention
Few days ago I came across this sad and beautiful website: The battle we didn't choose: my wife's battle with breast cancer (*) Angelo Merendino is a photographer based in Cleveland. Angelo and his wife Jennifer's story is moving: love at first sight (at least from Angelo's side :)), soon culminated to a wedding in Central […]