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Nonlinear parametric inverse problems appear in many applications. Here, we focus on diffuse optical tomography (DOT) in medical imaging to recover unknown images of interest, such as cancerous tissue in a given medium, using a mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Selin Aslan , Eric de Sturler , Serkan Gugercin

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) utilises near-infrared light for imaging spatially distributed optical parameters, typically the absorption and scattering coefficients. The image reconstruction problem of DOT is an ill-posed inverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Meghdoot Mozumder , Andreas Hauptmann , Ilkka Nissilä , Simon R. Arridge , Tanja Tarvainen

Score-based diffusion models are a recently developed framework for posterior sampling in Bayesian inverse problems with a state-of-the-art performance for severely ill-posed problems by leveraging a powerful prior distribution learned from…

In this work, we focus on the inverse medium scattering problem (IMSP), which aims to recover unknown scatterers based on measured scattered data. Motivated by the efficient direct sampling method (DSM) introduced in [23], we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Jianfeng Ning , Fuqun Han , Jun Zou

A new formulation of lateral imaging process of point-scanning optical coherence tomography (OCT) and a new differential contrast method designed by using this formulation are presented. The formulation is based on a mathematical sample…

Medical imaging is nowadays a pillar in diagnostics and therapeutic follow-up. Current research tries to integrate established - but ionizing - tomographic techniques with technologies offering reduced radiation exposure. Diffuse Optical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Alessandro Benfenati , Paola Causin , Martina Quinteri

In this paper, we formulate the reconstruction problem in diffuse optical tomography (DOT) in a statistical setting for determining the optical parameters, scattering and absorption, from boundary photon density measurements. A special kind…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Thilo Strauss , Sanwar Ahmad , Taufiquar Khan

Diffuse optical breast imaging utilizes near-infrared (NIR) light propagation through tissues to assess the optical properties of tissue for the identification of abnormal tissue. This optical imaging approach is sensitive, cost-effective,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenxiang Cong , Xavier Intes , Ge Wang

We consider in this work an inverse acoustic scattering problem when only phaseless data is available. The inverse problem is highly nonlinear and ill-posed due to the lack of the phase information. Solving inverse scattering problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jianfeng Ning , Fuqun Han , Jun Zou

Various imaging techniques have significantly enhanced our ability to visualize objects embedded within complex media such as biological tissues, fog, atmosphere, or various turbid media. Optical imaging, in particular, offers multiple…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-05 Mingwei He , Sujit K. Sahoo , Chengyuan Xiao , Cuong Dang

In this paper we investigate the non-linear and ill-posed inverse problem of simultaneously identifying the conductivity and the reaction in diffuse optical tomography with noisy measurement data available on an accessible part of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

The inverse scattering problem from the multi-frequency backscattering data is a long-standing open problem. We advance the theory by proving a local uniqueness result. Moreover, we introduce a direct sampling method for quantitatively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yukun Guo , Xiaodong Liu

In this study, we investigated the application of the direct sampling method (DSM) to identify small dielectric objects in a limited-aperture inverse scattering problem. Unlike previous studies, we consider the bistatic measurement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Won-Kwang Park

Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zezeng Li , ShengHao Li , Zhanpeng Wang , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Xianfeng Gu

This paper proposes a direct sampling method for the inverse problem of magnetic induction tomography (MIT). Our approach defines a class of point spread functions with explicit expressions, which are computed via inner products, leading to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Junqing Chen , Chengzhe Jiang

We introduce a general tensor model suitable for data analytic tasks for {\em heterogeneous} datasets, wherein there are joint low-rank structures within groups of observations, but also discriminative structures across different groups. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-04 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis

Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Alex Viguerie , Silvia Bertoluzza , Alessandro Veneziani , Ferdinando Auricchio

Light scattering imposes a major obstacle for imaging objects seated deeply in turbid media, such as biological tissues and foggy air. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) tackles scattering by volumetrically recovering the optical absorbance…

Dynamic optical coherence tomography (DOCT) statistically analyzes fluctuations in time-sequential OCT signals, enabling label-free and three-dimensional visualization of intratissue and intracellular activities. Current DOCT methods, such…

Although diffusion models can generate remarkably high-quality samples, they are intrinsically bottlenecked by their expensive iterative sampling procedure. Consistency models (CMs) have recently emerged as a promising diffusion model…