3-d object tracking in panoramic video and lidar for radiological source–object attribution and improved source detection

MR Marshall, D Hellfeld, THY Joshi… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networked detector systems can be deployed in urban environments to aid in the detection
and localization of radiological and/or nuclear material. However, effectively responding to …

Gamma-ray point-source localization and sparse image reconstruction using Poisson likelihood

D Hellfeld, THY Joshi, MS Bandstra… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gamma-ray imaging attempts to reconstruct the spatial and intensity distribution of gamma-
emitting radionuclides from a set of measurements. Generally, this problem is solved by …

Attribution of gamma-ray background collected by a mobile detector system to its surroundings using panoramic video

MS Bandstra, BJ Quiter, JC Curtis, KJ Bilton… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mobile radiation detector systems are important tools for detecting radiological and nuclear
sources outside of regulatory control, but due to their mobility, they are subject to complex …

The nuclear legacy today of fukushima

K Vetter - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) following the Great
East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in March 2011 changed people's …

Mode-Driven explainable artificial intelligence approach for estimating background radiation spectrum in a measurement applicable to nuclear security

M Alamaniotis - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduces an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) approach designed to
estimate background spectra in unknown spectral measurements. The approach combines …

Neural network approaches for mobile spectroscopic gamma-ray source detection

KJ Bilton, THY Joshi, MS Bandstra, JC Curtis… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) for performing spectroscopic gamma-ray source
identification have been previously introduced, primarily for applications in controlled …

Data-driven modeling of background radiation structure utilizing matrix profile in nuclear security

M Alamaniotis - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
The inherently stochastic nature of radiation emissions makes modeling background
radiation structure a particularly challenging research area. In source identification …

Networked sensing for radiation detection, localization, and tracking

RJ Cooper, N Abgrall, G Aversano… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection, identification, and localization of illicit radiological and nuclear material
continue to be key components of nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear security efforts …

An FPGA implementation of convolutional spiking neural networks for radioisotope identification

X Huang, E Jones, S Zhang, S Xie… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper details FPGA implementation methodology for Convolutional Spiking Neural
Networks (CSNN) and applies this methodology to low-power radioisotope identification …

Modeling aerial gamma-ray backgrounds using non-negative matrix factorization

MS Bandstra, THY Joshi, KJ Bilton… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Airborne gamma-ray surveys are useful for many applications, ranging from geology and
mining to public health and nuclear security. In all these contexts, the ability to decompose a …