S. Lee, D. Noll, J. Fessler EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Biomedical engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States Introduction Dynamic R2* mapping has been used in several MRI applications, such as functional imaging [1-4], and tissue identification by bolus tracking [5]. In functional imaging, R2* mapping has several advantages. It provides be...

Recently, it has been observed that a new method for generating continuous distributions, T - X family, can be quite effectively used to analyze the data in one dimension. The aim of this study is to generalize this method to two dimensional space so that the marginals would have T - X distributions. So, several examples and properties of this family have been presented. As ...

Streamflow forecasting has an important role in water resource management (e.g. flood control, drought management, reservoir design, etc.). In this paper, the application of Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) is used for long-term streamflow forecasting (monthly, seasonal) and moreover, cross-validation method (K-fold) is investigated to evaluate test-training data in the model.Then,...

Background: Micro-grid (MG) can be described as a group of controllable loads and distributed energy resources that can be connected and disconnected from the main grid and utilized in grid-connected or islanded modes considering certain electrical constraints. Methods: The objective of this article are as follows: (1) predict the uncertainties through the hybrid method of WT-ANN-ICA and (2) de...

Most of the land use change modelers have used to model binary land use change rather than multiple land use changes. As a first objective of this study, we compared two well-known LUC models, called classification and regression tree (CART) and artificial neural network (ANN) from two groups of data mining tools, global parametric and local non-parametric models, to model multiple LUCs. The ca...