Detection of radionuclides from weak and poorly resolved spectra using Lasso and subsampling techniques |
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Authors: | Er-Wei Bai Kung-sik Chan William Eichinger Paul Kump |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA;bDepartment of Statistical and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA;cDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA |
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Abstract: | We consider a problem of identification of nuclides from weak and poorly resolved spectra. A two stage algorithm is proposed and tested based on the principle of majority voting. The idea is to model gamma-ray counts as Poisson processes. Then, the average part is taken to be the model and the difference between the observed gamma-ray counts and the average is considered as random noise. In the linear part, the unknown coefficients correspond to if isotopes of interest are present or absent. Lasso types of algorithms are applied to find non-vanishing coefficients. Since Lasso or any prediction error based algorithm is inconsistent with variable selection for finite data length, an estimate of parameter distribution based on subsampling techniques is added in addition to Lasso. Simulation examples are provided in which the traditional peak detection algorithms fail to work and the proposed two stage algorithm performs well in terms of both the False Negative and False Positive errors. |
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Keywords: | Lasso Subsampling Radionuclide Detection Identification |
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