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Estimation of volume using the nucleator and lattice points

Abstract: The nucleator is a method to estimate the volume of a particle, i.e., a compact subset of R3, which is widely used in Stereology. It is based on geometric sampling and known to be unbiased. However, the prediction of the variance of this estimator is non-trivial and depends on the underlying sampling scheme. We propose well established tools from quasi-Monte Carlo integration to address this problem. In particular, we show how the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces can be used for variance prediction and how the variance of estimators based on the nucleator idea can be reduced using lattice (or lattice-like) points. We illustrate and test our results on various examples.

 Fuente: Image Anal. Stereol., 2019, 38(2), 141-150

 Publisher: International Society for Stereology

 Year of publication: 2019

 No. of pages: 10

 Publication type: Article

 DOI: 10.5566/ias.2012

 ISSN: 1580-3139,1854-5165

 Publication Url: https://doi.org/10.5566/ias.2012

Authorship

PAUSINGER,FLORIAN