A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2014 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students
from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday,
April 11, 2014. // REGISTER NOW
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
Bimal Sinha
Conference Chair
443.538.3012
Kofi Adragni
410.455.2406
Yvonne Huang
410.455.2422
Yaakov Malinovsky
410.455.2968
Thomas Mathew
410.455.2418
Nagaraj Neerchal
410.455.2437
DoHwan Park
410.455.2408
Junyong Park
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Anindya Roy
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Elizabeth Stanwyck
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Participant Information
Burcin Simsek
Paper: On the distribution of photon counts with censoring in two-photon microscopy
Photon counting methods can give better images than analog methods in two-photon laser scanning microscopy (T.P.L.S.M.). However, photon detectors have a dead period that leads to undercounts. Earlier methods only used zero counts to estimate the rate of photon emissions. We describe a model for photon generation and derive the distribution of the observed counts $D$, which we then use to estimate the rate $\alpha$ of the Poisson process that models photon emission times. We study the moments of the distribution of $D$, the increase in Fisher information due to incorporating larger counts, and the resulting increase in signal-to-noise ratio that leads to sharper images.
