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30 nips-2008-Bayesian Experimental Design of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequences


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Author: Hannes Nickisch, Rolf Pohmann, Bernhard Schölkopf, Matthias Seeger

Abstract: We show how improved sequences for magnetic resonance imaging can be found through optimization of Bayesian design scores. Combining approximate Bayesian inference and natural image statistics with high-performance numerical computation, we propose the first Bayesian experimental design framework for this problem of high relevance to clinical and brain research. Our solution requires large-scale approximate inference for dense, non-Gaussian models. We propose a novel scalable variational inference algorithm, and show how powerful methods of numerical mathematics can be modified to compute primitives in our framework. Our approach is evaluated on raw data from a 3T MR scanner. 1


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