Augustana University

Construction and characterisation of the DarkSide-20k veto silicon photo-multiplier tiles

Abstract Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are state-of-the-art sensors capable of detecting a single photoelectron under cryogenic conditions, with potentially lower radioactivity than widely used photomultiplier tubes. The DarkSide-20k experiment, designed to perform direct dar...

Improved deep joint segmentation and deep hybrid architecture for breast cancer diagnosis with improved pattern extractors

Cancer remains one of the primary contributors to illness and mortality among women globally. One in five new cases of cancer in the world occurs in the breast. The use of mammography as a radiological diagnostic tool for breast abnormalities resulted in a notable reduction in br...