OVERVIEW OF ADVANCES IN ASDEX UPGRADE PLASMA CONTROL TO SUPPORT CRITICAL PHYSICS RESEARCH FOR ITER AND BEYOND

Overview of advances in ASDEX Upgrade plasma control to support critical physics research for ITER and beyond

The successful operation of fusion reactors requires plasma scenarios with good core confinement and acceptable first wall heat loads that are stable and robust to external perturbations.This poses both physical and technological challenges.One of the technologies that addresses these challenges is a complex feedback control system that supports ad

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Multi-Parameter Ensemble Learning for Automated Vertebral Body Segmentation in Heterogeneously Acquired Clinical MR Images

The development of quantitative imaging biomarkers in medicine requires automatic delineation of relevant anatomical structures using available imaging data.However, this task is complicated in clinical medicine due to the variation in scanning parameters and protocols, even within a single medical center.Existing literature on automatic image segm

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