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Hi Jaume,
Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I'd like to have a large linear system for testing. I use it as a case to test my numerical algorithm.
I do not use it to solve a bioelectric problem. It should be great to solve such a problem. But it will not be easy, I think.
Your comments are very helpful to me. I still have problem about how to generate a larger linear system Ax=b. Please see my comments in the following brackets. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Hua

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发件人: Jaume <arbalak@gmail.com>
发送时间: 2014年1月11日 星期六
收件人: "向华" <hxiang@whu.edu.cn>
抄送: "Dan White" <dwhite@sci.utah.edu>, "Petar Petrov" <pip010@gmail.com>, "scirun-users@sci.utah.edu" <scirun-users@sci.utah.edu>
主题: Fwd: [SCIRUN-USERS] larger linear system for testing in FwdInvToolbox

Hi Hua,

Let's see if I can help you.

Right now, I am not sure what is your need exactly so let me try to explain what I understood so you know where I am.

(I'll be using the toolkit guide as a reference for both of us)

You are trying to use the network tikhonov-inverse from the FWD/INV_ECG toolkit but found that the system it is solving is too simple for you.

When you say this, do you mean that you would like to see how SCIRUN solves any big inverse problem or that you need it for a particular bioelectric case?

This is the main point that confuses me and can lead to two answers, one simple and the other complex.

[ Currently I just need the simple one: I want to generate a bigger test case.]

To simply load new matrices take look at the network (there's an image at page 35 of the guide). You'll see that there are three input modules: two ReadMatrix and one ReadField.

In order from left to right, these load the forward matrix (A), the solution potentials (x) and a heart geometry for visualization. These load the files you mentioned above. 

So if you click on the UI button of each one of them, a menu will pop-up where you can choose a new file, there are different formats you can choose from too.

[ I just know to use the following 3 files for testing: for_mat_128.mat, epi_pot_128_fr_170to190.mat, 25feb97_sock_closed.fld. Are there any other similar files which I can load?
or shall I run any other modules and generate such files myself? ]

Nevertheless, these files must have the following format:

- A - must be a MXN real matrix (current SCIRUN does not support complex, will come in the next version)

- x - must be a NXT real matrix with the hidden data, (we can now consider T=1 for simplicity).

- and the field a geometry of N nodes to plot the potentials on top.

[ I can save these data A and x, and read them in Matlab. After solving the problem in Matlab, I reload the computed results in SCIRUN, and draw the pictures by using that fld file. ]

Note that this netwrok first solves y, adds noise to it and then tries to estimate x from that noisy y, so you don't have to load y in this network (you could change this in general).

Now, if you want to solve any linear system, just change A and x  for any pair of matrices of appropriate dimensions and see how it works.

[ I do not know how to change A and x. I can just run one case provided by the tutorial, that is, using for_mat_128.mat, epi_pot_128_fr_170to190.mat, 25feb97_sock_closed.fld. ]

If, instead you are interested in solving a bioelectric problem, it gets a little more complicated.

You will first need the discretized closed surface geometries of, in this case, heart and torso and then solve the forward problem.

[ That is what I want to do. But it seems hard to me currently. In fact, I am a beginner to use SCIRun. ]

An option to do so would be BEM from which you can find an example network in torso-tank-bem.srn .

Once you have solved this problem you could now use the resulting forward matrix A (output of module BuildBEMatrix) as an input for the tikhnov case.

I hope this is helpful. Please, don't hesitate to ask if you still have doubts.

Best,

Jaume

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:16 AM, 向华 <hxiang@whu.edu.cn> wrote:

Hello,
Excuse me. I have a simple question about using FwdInvToolbox, in which there is an example, tikhonov-inverse.srn.
The module that solves the inverse problem by means of Tikhonov regularization is SolveInverseProblemWithTikhonov, in which I find that there is a linear system
Ax=b.
After importing it into Matlab, I find that A is a matrix of the size 771-by-128. The size of this linear system is small.
I am interested in this linear system, and want to test a larger linear system, for example, the matrix A with the size of several thousands. My question is how I can get such larger linear system.
I think I need to use finer grids and change the three input data files:
for_mat_128.mat
epi_pot_128_fr_170to190.mat
25feb97_sock_closed.fld
But how to generate these files? Can anybody here help me? Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Hua

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• [SCIRUN-USERS] larger linear system for testing in FwdInvToolbox, 向华, 01/09/2014
  • [SCIRUN-USERS] Re: larger linear system for testing in FwdInvToolbox, Jaume Coll-Font, 01/11/2014
    • [SCIRUN-USERS] Re: Fwd: larger linear system for testing in FwdInvToolbox, 向华, 01/12/2014
      • [SCIRUN-USERS] Re: Re: Fwd: larger linear system for testing in FwdInvToolbox, 向华, 01/14/2014

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