Shape Parameter Of K-distribution Research Articles

Parameter Estimation Processor for K-distribution Clutter Based on Deep Learning

This paper concerns the problem of parameter estimating of K-distribution. In previous work only the shape parameter of K-distribution is estimated from which the scale parameter is calculated. Therefore, the accuracy of the estimated scale parameter is largely determined by the accuracy of shape parameter estimation. In order to decouple the estimation of scale and shape parameters, in this work, deep learning is considered as the main tool to achieve K-distribution parameters estimation as a regression task. Specifically, a parameter estimation processor combining CNN with LSTM is constructed. The ground truth of the two parameters are taken as labels, and the weighted losses of the two parameters construct the total loss function of the network training. The effectiveness and superiority of the proposed estimation processor are verified on the simulated data and the real sea clutter data.

Analysis of scattering statistics and governing distribution functions in optical coherence tomography.

The probability density function (PDF) of light scattering intensity can be used to characterize the scattering medium. We have recently shown that in optical coherence tomography (OCT), a PDF formalism can be sensitive to the number of scatterers in the probed scattering volume and can be represented by the K-distribution, a functional descriptor for non-Gaussian scattering statistics. Expanding on this initial finding, here we examine polystyrene microsphere phantoms with different sphere sizes and concentrations, and also human skin and fingernail in vivo. It is demonstrated that the K-distribution offers an accurate representation for the measured OCT PDFs. The behavior of the shape parameter of K-distribution that best fits the OCT scattering results is investigated in detail, and the applicability of this methodology for biological tissue characterization is demonstrated and discussed.