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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has long been considered to be among "the gold standards" of diagnostic medical imaging. The long acquisition times, however, render MRI prone to motion artifacts, let alone their adverse contribution to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Tomer Weiss , Ortal Senouf , Sanketh Vedula , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Alex Bronstein

Maximum mutual information (MMI) is a model selection criterion used for hidden Markov model (HMM) parameter estimation that was developed more than twenty years ago as a discriminative alternative to the maximum likelihood criterion for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-02-04 Steven Wegmann

Mutual Information (MI) is a crucial measure for capturing dependencies between variables, but exact computation is challenging in high dimensions with intractable likelihoods, impacting accuracy and robustness. One idea is to use an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Forough Fazeliasl , Michael Minyi Zhang , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong

We argue that the estimation of mutual information between high dimensional continuous random variables can be achieved by gradient descent over neural networks. We present a Mutual Information Neural Estimator (MINE) that is linearly…

In this survey, we present and compare different approaches to estimate Mutual Information (MI) from data to analyse general dependencies between variables of interest in a system. We demonstrate the performance difference of MI versus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-18 D. Gencaga , N. K. Malakar , D. J. Lary

An accelerated model-based information theoretic approach is presented to perform the task of Magnetic Resonance (MR) thermal image reconstruction from a limited number of observed samples on k-space. The key idea of the proposed approach…

The Mutual Information (MI) is an often used measure of dependency between two random variables utilized in information theory, statistics and machine learning. Recently several MI estimators have been proposed that can achieve parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Morteza Noshad , Yu Zeng , Alfred O. Hero

This paper presents an information-theoretic approach to address the phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement problem in electric power systems. Different from the conventional 'topological observability' based approaches, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Qiao Li , Tao Cui , Yang Weng , Rohit Negi , Franz Franchetti , Marija D. Ilic

In the context of estimating material properties of porous walls based on in-site measurements and identification method, this paper presents the concept of Optimal Experiment Design (OED). It aims at searching the best experimental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Julien Berger , Denys Dutykh , Nathan Mendes

Mechanistic models in biology often involve numerous parameters about which we do not have direct experimental information. The traditional approach is to fit these parameters using extensive numerical simulations (e.g. by the Monte-Carlo…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Alexandre Rocca , Marcelo Forets , Victor Magron , Eric Fanchon , Thao Dang

In computational PDE-based inverse problems, a finite amount of data is collected to infer unknown parameters in the PDE. In order to obtain accurate inferences, the collected data must be informative about the unknown parameters. How to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Tan Bui-Thanh , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Microwave inverse scattering imaging (MISI) is a crucial computational technique in microwave nondestructive evaluation and near-field microwave sensing systems. However, quantitative reconstruction of high-contrast targets remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Shilong Sun

Quantitative imaging in MRI usually involves acquisition and reconstruction of a series of images at multi-echo time points, which possibly requires more scan time and specific reconstruction technique compared to conventional qualitative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Jinwei Zhang , Hang Zhang , Chao Li , Pascal Spincemaille , Mert Sabuncu , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

Hyperpolarized (HP) 13C MRI has shown promise as a valuable modality for in vivo measurements of metabolism and is currently in human trials at 15 research sites worldwide. With this growth it is important to adopt standardized data storage…

Background: Coevolution within a protein family is often predicted using statistics that measure the degree of covariation between positions in the protein sequence. Mutual Information is a measure of dependence between two random variables…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-17 Russell J. Dickson , Gregory B. Gloor

The main difficulty concerning optimizing the mutual information (MI) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication systems with discrete signaling is the inability to formulate this optimization problem in an analytically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan

Electromagnetic wave manipulation plays a crucial role in advancing technology across various domains, including photonic device design. This study presents an inverse design approach for a periodic medium that optimizes electromagnetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Ziling Chen , Fadil Santosa

We introduce a Machine Learning framework, HIPED (HeIght and width Predictor for Edge Dynamics), for predicting and optimizing pedestal and core performance in spherical tokamak plasmas. Trained on pedestal and core datasets from the third…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 J. F. Parisi , J. G. Clark , J. W. Berkery , C. Bowman , C. J. Fitzpatrick , S. M. Kaye , M. Lampert

The Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) paradigm is attracting plenty of attention in medical imaging classification, where labeled data is scarce. MIL methods cast medical images as bags of instances (e.g. patches in whole slide images, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Francisco M. Castro-Macías , Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Yunan Wu , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

An optimal estimation inverse method is presented which can be used to retrieve simultaneously vertical profiles of temperature and specific humidity, in addition to surface pressure, from satellite-to-satellite radio occultation…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Paul I. Palmer , J. J. Barnett , J. R. Eyre , S. B. Healy