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by walterbell 1601 days ago
Code/data for replication: https://github.com/bispmri/Ultra-low-field-MRI-Scanner
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phkahler 1601 days ago
Some of the code is Matlab. I wonder if GNU octave is sufficient to run it. That would be a big savings for studying this.
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neuronexmachina 1601 days ago
The only Matlab file seems to just be be ~30 lines of code for reading HDF5 files and plotting some results, nothing too complicated or critical: https://github.com/bispmri/Ultra-low-field-MRI-Scanner/blob/...

It looks like the bulk of the code for training the EMI elimination model is is pretty straightforward PyTorch.

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keewee7 1601 days ago
I am surprised that there isn't open source alternatives to Simulink, Stateflow etc.

One reason Matlab is popular in academia and industry is because someone who don't know C/C++ (mechanical engineers etc.) can use something like Simulink to program real-time systems on microcontrollers and FPGAs.

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IshKebab 1601 days ago
There is Xcos, but IIRC it's pretty poor compared to Simulink. Honestly Simulink is super niche. I'd guess there are 10 times more MATLAB users than Simulink users. Not surprising there aren't many alternatives.

I think a bigger reason MATLAB is popular is that it works really reliably, it is very well documented, it has a ton of complex algorithms and functions built in (or available in toolkits at least) and the interactive GUI works very well.

There isn't anything anywhere that comes close to MATLAB's plotting abilities. And scientists do a hell of a lot of plotting.

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