The minimum description length principle in wavelet denoising can be extended from the standard linear-quadratic setting in several ways. We describe briefly three extensions: soft thresholding, histogram modeling and a multicomponent approach. The MDL hard thresholding approach based on the normalized maximum likelihood universal modeling can be extended to include soft thresholding shrinkage,...

1. Nicergoline, an ergot derivative previously used as a vasodilator, has gained a new indication in treating the symptoms of senile dementia. 2. Nicergoline is rapidly hydrolysed to an alcohol derivative, 1-methyl-10-alpha-methoxy-9,10-dihydrolysergol (MMDL), which is further N-demethylated to form 10-alpha-methoxy-9,10-dihydrolysergol (MDL). A few individuals display aberrant metabolism of th...

In many applications of OLAP or data warehouse, users need to query data of interest, such as a set of data that satisfies specific properties. A normal answer to such query just enumerates all the interesting cells. This is the most accurate but not the most informative method. Summarizations need to be done in order to return more concise descriptions of these interesting cells to the users. ...

Macrodystrophia lipomatosa (MDL) is a rare congenital disorder characterized by localized gigantism of one or several digits. It mayinvolve the entire limb due to progressive overgrowth all mesenchymal elements with an excessive increase in fibro-adiposetissues. occurs most commonly lower limbs. comes clinical attention for cosmetic reasons, mechanical problems secondaryto degenerative joint di...

We present and relate recent results in prediction based on countable classes of either probability (semi-)distributions or base predictors. Learning by Bayes, MDL, and stochastic model selection will be considered as instances of the first category. In particular, we will show how analog assertions to Solomonoff’s universal induction result can be obtained for MDL and stochastic model selectio...

We study the problem of estimating the number of independent motions for segmentation based on feature tracking. We elucidate the mathematical structure of the problem and present an estimation method using model selection by the geometric AIC, the geometric MDL, and the OIC. We compare their performance using synthetic and real data. We also present techniques for evaluating the reliability of...

This paper describes novel methods for estimating piecewise homogeneous Poisson elds based on minimum description length (MDL) criteria. By adopting a coding-theoretic approach, our methods are able to adapt to the the observed eld in an unsupervised manner. We present a parsing scheme based on xed multiscale trees (binary, for 1D, quad, for 2D) and an adaptive recursive partioning algorithm, b...