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Microbial communities play important roles in the function and maintenance of various biosystems, ranging from human body to the environment. Current methods for analysis of microbial communities are typically based on taxonomic…
In this paper we present a fast and efficient method for the reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) from severely under-sampled data. From the Compressed Sensing theory we have mathematically modeled the problem as a constrained…
Due to the recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, it becomes possible to directly analyze microbial communities in the human body and in the environment. Knowledge of how microbes interact with each other and form…
In microbiome studies, it is often of great interest to identify clusters or partitions of microbiome profiles within a study population and to characterize the distinctive attributes of each resulting microbial community. While raw counts…
When analyzing communities of microorganisms from their sequenced DNA, an important task is taxonomic profiling: enumerating the presence and relative abundance of all organisms, or merely of all taxa, contained in the sample. This task can…
Currently, the engineering of miniature spectrometers mainly faces three problems: the mismatch between the number of filters at the front end of the detector and the spectral reconstruction accuracy; the lack of a stable spectral…
In parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI), to find a joint solution for the image and coil sensitivity functions is a nonlinear and nonconvex problem. A class of algorithms reconstruct sensitivity encoded images of the coils first…
In parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) reconstruction without using estimation of coil sensitivity functions, one group of algorithms reconstruct sensitivity encoded images of the coils first followed by the magnitude only image…
Recovering a tree that represents the evolutionary history of a group of species is a key task in phylogenetics. Performing this task using sequence data from multiple genetic markers poses two key challenges. The first is the discordance…
In the recent past, automatic selection or combination of kernels (or features) based on multiple kernel learning (MKL) approaches has been receiving significant attention from various research communities. Though MKL has been extensively…
In this letter, we address sparse signal recovery using spike and slab priors. In particular, we focus on a Bayesian framework where sparsity is enforced on reconstruction coefficients via probabilistic priors. The optimization resulting…
The Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) problem plays a key role in many applications, including cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and pattern recognition, where it is used to identify the largest shared substructure between two graphs. Although…
Microstructure reconstruction is a key enabler of process-structure-property linkages, a central topic in materials engineering. Revisiting classical optimization-based reconstruction techniques,they are recognized as a powerful framework…
We study an auto-calibration problem in which a transform-sparse signal is acquired via compressive sensing by multiple sensors in parallel, but with unknown calibration parameters of the sensors. This inverse problem has an important…
An important goal in microbial computational genomics is to identify crucial events in the evolution of a gene that severely alter the duplication, loss and mobilization patterns of the gene within the genomes in which it disseminates. In…
In this paper we propose a parallel coordinate descent algorithm for solving smooth convex optimization problems with separable constraints that may arise e.g. in distributed model predictive control (MPC) for linear network systems. Our…
The accuracy and complexity of machine learning algorithms based on kernel optimization are determined by the set of kernels over which they are able to optimize. An ideal set of kernels should: admit a linear parameterization (for…
Efficient arithmetic circuit design for resourceconstrained hardware involves challenging combinatorial optimization problems, among which Multiple Constant Multiplication (MCM) is a prominent example. MCM aims at implementing…
Current popular methods for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprint (MRF) recovery are bottlenecked by the heavy computations of a matched-filtering step due to the growing size and complexity of the fingerprint dictionaries in multi-parametric…
To learn intrinsic low-dimensional structures from high-dimensional data that most discriminate between classes, we propose the principle of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction ($\text{MCR}^2$), an information-theoretic measure that maximizes the…