stability analysis of a variant of the prony method普龙尼的一种变体方法的稳定性分析.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 390645, 21 pages doi:10.1155/2012/390645 Research Article Stability Analysis of a Variant of the Prony Method Rodney Jaramillo and Marianela Lentini Escuela de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellın, Medellın, Colombia ´ ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Rodney Jaramillo, rjjustic@.co Received 15 June 2012; Accepted 12 October 2012 Academic Editor: Bin Liu Copyright q 2012 R. Jaramillo and M. Lentini. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Prony type methods are used in many engineering applications to determine the exponential fit corresponding to a dataset. In this paper we study a variant of Prony’s method that was used by Martın-Landrove et al., in a process of segmentation of T -weighted MRI brain images. We show ´ 2 the equivalence between that method and the classical Prony method and study the stability of the computed solutions with respect to noise in the data set. In particular, we show that the relative error in the calculation of the exponential fit parameters is linear with respect to noise in the data. Our analysis is based on classical results from linear algebra, matrix computation theory, and the theory of stability for roots of polynomials. 1. Introduction In this paper we consider the problem of recovering the parameters b, λ , and C j 1, . . . , k,