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Stacy L. Tantum

Bell-Rhodes Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708-0291
3579 Fitzpatrick CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Validation of Automated Fixed Force Applanation Tonometry.

Journal article Ophthalmol Sci · October 2026 PURPOSE: To validate fixed force applanation tonometry against traditional Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and compare interuser reproducibility. DESIGN: Prospective cross-sectional pilot study. SUBJECTS: Patients presenting for their routine eye care ... Full text Link to item Cite

Concordance-based Predictive Uncertainty (CPU)-Index: Proof-of-concept with application towards improved specificity of lung cancers on low dose screening CT.

Journal article Artif Intell Med · February 2025 In this paper, we introduce a novel concordance-based predictive uncertainty (CPU)-Index, which integrates insights from subgroup analysis and personalized AI time-to-event models. Through its application in refining lung cancer screening (LCS) predictions ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of time on seizure prediction performance in the FSPEEG database.

Journal article Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · July 2015 We demonstrate evidence that high discriminability between preictal and interictal intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) recordings [1,2] of the Freiburg database (FSPEEG) may be due to the amount of time that occurred between recordings, as opposed to ... Full text Cite

Target classification and identification using sparse model representations of frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensor data

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · January 1, 2013 Frequency-domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors can measure object-specific signatures that can be used to discriminate landmines from harmless clutter. In a model-based signal processing paradigm, the object signatures can often be decomposed int ... Full text Cite

Modeling position error probability density functions for statistical inversions using a Goff-Jordan rough surface model

Journal article Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment · January 1, 2009 Buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) continues to be a difficult remediation problem from both a sensing and a discrimination point of view. Modern approaches to both the sensing and discrimination problems utilize high bandwidth electromagnetic induction (EMI ... Full text Cite

Bayesian mitigation of sensor position errors to improve unexploded ordnance detection

Journal article IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters · January 1, 2008 Phenomenological modeling coupled with statistical signal processing has been shown to significantly improve capabilities for discriminating unexploded ordnance (UXO) from benign clutter using electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensor data. The general premis ... Full text Cite

Independent component analysis for UXO detection in highly cluttered environments

Journal article Journal of Applied Geophysics · March 19, 2007 Statistical signal processing techniques have shown progress in discriminating UXO from clutter when the objects occur in isolation. Under this condition, only a single object contributes to the measured sensor data. For multiple closely spaced subsurface ... Full text Cite

Kalman filtering for enhanced landmine detection using quadrupole resonance

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · July 1, 2005 Quadrupole resonance (QR) is a novel technology recently applied to landmine detection. The detection process is specific to the chemistry of the explosive, and therefore is less susceptible to the types of false alarms experienced by metal detectors and g ... Full text Cite

EMI-based classification of multiple closely spaced subsurface objects via independent component analysis

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · November 1, 2004 Previous work in subsurface object discrimination using electromagnetic induction data has shown that discrimination algorithms based on statistical signal processing techniques are effective for classifying data from objects that occur in isolation. Howev ... Full text Cite

Cramer-Rao lower bound for estimating quadrupole resonance signals in non-Gaussian noise

Journal article IEEE Signal Processing Letters · May 1, 2004 Quadrupole resonance (QR) technology for the detection of explosives is of crucial importance in an increasing number of applications. For landmine detection, where the detection system cannot be shielded, QR has proven to be highly effective if the QR sen ... Full text Cite

Performance bounds and a parameter transformation for decay rate estimation

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · October 1, 2003 Decay rate estimation has been proposed as an effective method for signal characterization in many application areas, including subsurface sensing using time-domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. The physical basis for this strategy is that every ... Full text Cite

Enhanced auditory displays for improved landmine detection using EMI sensors

Journal article Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications · July 2003 Cite

The performance of matched-field track-before-detect methods using shallow-water Pacific data.

Journal article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · July 2002 Matched-field track-before-detect processing, which extends the concept of matched-field processing to include modeling of the source dynamics, has recently emerged as a promising approach for maintaining the track of a moving source. In this paper, optima ... Full text Cite

A comparison of algorithms for subsurface target detection and identification using time-domain electromagnetic induction data

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · June 1, 2001 In this paper, the performance of subsurface target identification algorithms using data from time-domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors is investigated. The response of time-domain EMI sensors to the presence of a conducting object may be modeled ... Full text Cite

On array design for matched-field processing

Journal article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · April 2000 Conventional plane-wave beamforming array design guidelines are motivated by the desire to obtain particular beampattern characteristics, such as main lobe width and side lobe levels. These design guidelines are appropriate for arrays employed for beamform ... Full text Cite

Bayesian signal detection for multiple aspect targets with an uncertain look angle

Journal article Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 1999 An optimal signal detection theory (likelihood ratio) approach is presented for the determination of the presence or absence of a target observed at multiple aspects in noise, where there is uncertainty in the initial look angle at which the aspects are ob ... Cite

Effects of signal-to-noise ratio mismatch on Bayesian matched-field source localization performance

Journal article ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings · January 1, 1999 The signal-to-noise ratio of real data is rarely known with complete certainty. However, Bayesian matched-field processing techniques for ocean acoustic source localization often require the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to be known a priori. In this paper, ... Cite

Tracking and localizing a moving source in an uncertain shallow water environment

Journal article Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · January 1, 1998 An optimal approach to tracking a moving source in the presence of environmental variability is presented. This tracking algorithm, called the optimum uncertain field tracking algorithm (OUFTA), incorporates a model for the source motion as well as the unc ... Full text Cite