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This research extends operator-informed Gaussian process regression to handle complex-valued Helmholtz equations, enabling uncertainty quantification for sparse wavefield inference in dissipative media. By integrating multiscale kernels with PDE residuals, the method outperforms deterministic baselines like finite-difference and neural networks while providing calibrated posterior distributions over both real and imaginary components of the solution. The approach demonstrates significant utility in medical imaging applications such as *in vivo* brain elastography, where it achieves high correlation scores by effectively managing model mismatch at low frequencies.
Operator-Informed Gaussian Processes for Complex Helmholtz Wavefields: From Synthetic Benchmarks to In Vivo Brain Elastography
arXiv:2607.14193v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Helmholtz equation governs time-harmonic wave propagation, and in dissipative media a complex modulus renders its squared wavenumber $\kappa^2$ complex. Inferring such fields from sparse, noisy data calls for solvers that also quantify their own uncertainty. Physics-informed Gaussian-process (GP) regression supplies this by returning a posterior over the solution, yet operator-conditioned formulations have been developed almost exclusively for real-valued fields. We extend operator-informed GP regression to complex-valued Helmholtz problems by realifying the complex operator into an equivalent coupled real block, which enables inference with standard real-valued GP conditioning. The construction admits a family of priors, from a proper diagonal prior to coregionalized and multiscale variants, and conditions on PDE residuals and boundary traces. On benchmark problems in one to three dimensions, the solver is competitive with finite-difference and neural-network baselines at a far smaller interior-constraint budget. Unlike those deterministic baselines, it returns a posterior over the complex wavefield rather than a point estimate. Applied to \textit{in vivo} brain magnetic resonance elastography, a proper multiscale prior reconstructs the shear curl field to a correlation of $0.77$ with measurement, above a $0.75$ target. The gain arises from the multiscale kernel rather than from real--imaginary coupling. We further identify a low-frequency accuracy ceiling set by model mismatch and a posterior uncertainty that is not yet calibrated. Calibrated uncertainty therefore emerges as the central next step for probabilistic wavefield inference in dissipative media.
Abstract:The Helmholtz equation governs time-harmonic wave propagation, and in dissipative media a complex modulus renders its squared wavenumber $\kappa^2$ complex. Inferring such fields from sparse, noisy data calls for solvers that also quantify their own uncertainty. Physics-informed Gaussian-process (GP) regression supplies this by returning a posterior over the solution, yet operator-conditioned formulations have been developed almost exclusively for real-valued fields. We extend operator-informed GP regression to complex-valued Helmholtz problems by realifying the complex operator into an equivalent coupled real block, which enables inference with standard real-valued GP conditioning. The construction admits a family of priors, from a proper diagonal prior to coregionalized and multiscale variants, and conditions on PDE residuals and boundary traces. On benchmark problems in one to three dimensions, the solver is competitive with finite-difference and neural-network baselines at a far smaller interior-constraint budget. Unlike those deterministic baselines, it returns a posterior over the complex wavefield rather than a point estimate. Applied to \textit{in vivo} brain magnetic resonance elastography, a proper multiscale prior reconstructs the shear curl field to a correlation of $0.77$ with measurement, above a $0.75$ target. The gain arises from the multiscale kernel rather than from real--imaginary coupling. We further identify a low-frequency accuracy ceiling set by model mismatch and a posterior uncertainty that is not yet calibrated. Calibrated uncertainty therefore emerges as the central next step for probabilistic wavefield inference in dissipative media.
Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
arXiv:2607.14193 [stat.ML]
(or arXiv:2607.14193v2 [stat.ML] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.14193 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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