Publications by authors named "Marius Vila"
Article Synopsis
- Tissue establishments process and distribute allografts, requiring a matching process based on allograft morphology, which can be error-prone due to manual procedures.
- A new digital system is proposed to manage bone allograft-recipient matching by using DICOM files for image storage and provides advanced functionalities like 3D modeling and simultaneous data visualization.
- Testing at the Barcelona Tissue Bank shows that this software can optimize the matching process by improving interaction and measurement capabilities.
Interpreting Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) as an Information Channel.
Entropy (Basel)
November 2020
Information theory, and the concept of information channel, allows us to calculate the mutual information between the source (input) and the receiver (output), both represented by probability distributions over their possible states. In this paper, we use the theory behind the information channel to provide an enhanced interpretation to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), a square matrix whose columns and rows present the expenditure and receipt accounts of economic actors. Under our interpretation, the SAM's coefficients, which, conceptually, can be viewed as a Markov chain, can be interpreted as an information channel, allowing us to optimize the desired level of aggregation within the SAM.
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