– M. Unser (EPFL) Tutorial : Sparse stochastic processes and biomedical image reconstruction

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By Michael Unser, EPFL. Tutorial: Sparse stochastic processes and biomedical image reconstruction Sparse stochastic processes are continuous-domain processes that admit a parsimonious representation in some matched wavelet-like basis. Such models are relevant for image compression, compressed sensing, and, more generally, for the derivation of statistical algorithms for solving ill-posed inverse problems. This tutorial focuses on an extended family of sparse processes that are specified by a generic (non-Gaussian) innovation model or, equivalently, as solutions of linear stochastic differential equations driven by white Lévy noise. We provide a complete functional characterization of these processes and highlight some of their properties. The two leading threads that underly the exposition are: 1) the statistical property of infinite divisibility, which induces two distinct types of behavior—Gaussian vs. sparse—at the exclusion of any other; 2) the structural link between linear stochastic processes and spline functions which is exploited to simplify the mathematics. The proposed continuous-domain formalism lends itself naturally to the discretization of linear inverse problems. The reconstruction is formulated as a statistical estimation problem, which suggests some novel algorithms for biomedical image reconstruction, including magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray tomography. We present experiments with simulated data where the proposed scheme outperforms the more traditional convex optimization techniques (in particular, total variation). Download slides

– M. Unser (EPFL) Tutorial : Sparse stochastic processes and biomedical image reconstruction

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By Michael Unser, EPFL.\n\nTutorial : Sparse stochastic processes and biomedical image reconstruction\n\nSparse stochastic processes are continuous-domain processes that admit a parsimonious representation in some matched wavelet-like basis. Such models are relevant for image compression, compressed sensing, and, more generally, for the derivation of statistical algorithms for solving ill-posed inverse problems.\n\nThis tutorial focuses on an extended family of sparse processes that are specified by a generic (non-Gaussian) innovation model or, equivalently, as solutions of linear stochastic differential equations driven by white Lévy noise. We provide a complete functional characterization of these processes and highlight some of their properties.\nThe two leading threads that underly the exposition are :\n1) the statistical property of infinite divisibility, which induces two distinct types of behavior—Gaussian vs. sparse—at the exclusion of any other\ ;\n2) the structural link between linear stochastic processes and spline functions which is exploited to simplify the mathematics.\n\nThe proposed continuous-domain formalism lends itself naturally to the discretization of linear inverse problems. The reconstruction is formulated as a statistical estimation problem, which suggests some novel algorithms for biomedical image reconstruction, including magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray tomography. We present experiments with simulated data where the proposed scheme outperforms the more traditional convex optimization techniques (in particular, total variation).\n\nDownload slides[