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Full-waveform inversion problems are usually formulated as optimization problems, where the forward-wave propagation operator $f$ maps the subsurface velocity structures to seismic signals. The existing computational methods for solving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Yue Wu , Youzuo Lin

In salt provinces, full-waveform inversion (FWI) is most likely to fail when starting with a poor initial model that lacks the salt information. Conventionally, salt bodies are included in the FWI starting model by interpreting the salt…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-07 Abdullah Alali , Tariq Alkhalifah

Time-lapse full-waveform inversion (FWI) has become a powerful tool for characterizing and monitoring subsurface changes in various geophysical applications. However, non-repeatability (NR) issues caused, for instance, by GPS inaccuracies,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-11 Sergio Luiz E. F. da Silva , Ammir Karsou , Roger M. Moreira , Marco Cetale

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a technique having the potential for building high-resolution elastic velocity models. We proposed to apply this technique to wireline monopole acoustic logging data to obtain the near wellbore formation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Huaigu Tang , Arthur Chuen Hon Cheng , Elita Yunyue Li , Xinding Fang

The emergence of long-offset sparse stationary-recording surveys carried out with ocean bottom nodes (OBN) makes frequency-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) attractive to manage compact volume of data and perform attenuation imaging. One…

Full Waveform Inversion can be made immune to cycle skipping by matching the recorded data arbitrarily well from inaccurate subsurface models. To achieve this goal, the simulated wavefields can be computed in an extended search space as the…

Low-frequency data are essential to constrain the low-wavenumber model components in seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI). However, due to acquisition limitations and ambient noise it is often unavailable. Deep learning (DL) can learn to…

An accurate velocity model is essential to make a good seismic image. Conventional methods to perform Velocity Model Building (VMB) tasks rely on inverse methods, which, despite being widely used, are ill-posed problems that require intense…

Ultrasound computed tomography is emerging as a promising safe and accessible modality for soft-tissue medical imaging, with full waveform inversion playing a key role in unlocking its full potential for high-resolution, quantitative…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yifei Sun , Yubing Li , Chang Su , Lekang Jiang , Xiangwei Lu , Ligang Cui , He Sun , Weijun Lin

Frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is suitable for long-offset stationary-recording acquisition, since reliable subsurface models can be reconstructed with a few frequencies and attenuation is easily implemented without…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Stéphane Operto , Pierre-Henri Tournier

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging imaging modality that holds great promise for breast imaging. Full-waveform inversion (FWI)-based image reconstruction methods incorporate accurate wave physics to produce high spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Luke Lozenski , Hanchen Wang , Fu Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Brendt Wohlberg , Youzuo Lin , Umberto Villa

Full waveform inversion is a high-resolution subsurface imaging technique, in which full seismic waveforms are used to infer subsurface physical properties. We present a novel, target-enclosing, full-waveform inversion framework based on an…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Polina Zheglova , Matteo Ravasi , Ivan Vasconcelos , Alison Malcolm

In our paper [SIAM J.\ Appl.~Math.\ 79-6 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1269403] we considered full waveform inversion (FWI) in the viscoelastic regime. FWI entails the nonlinear inverse problem of recovering parameter functions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Andreas Kirsch , Andreas Rieder

Computational wave imaging (CWI) extracts hidden structure and physical properties of a volume of material by analyzing wave signals that traverse that volume. Applications include seismic exploration of the Earth's subsurface, acoustic…

The lack of low frequency information and a good initial model can seriously affect the success of full waveform inversion (FWI), due to the inherent cycle skipping problem. Computational low frequency extrapolation is in principle the most…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Hongyu Sun , Laurent Demanet

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the only imaging modality for non-invasive movement detection of in vivo water molecules, with significant clinical and research applications. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) MRI acquired by…

Quantitative speed-of-sound (SoS) and attenuation of tissues are closely related to pathology; however, conventional B-mode images are limited to qualitative visualization. Existing ultrasound full-waveform inversion (FWI) methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Rui Guo , Ditza Auerbach , Yonina C. Eldar

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversion, subsurface flow processes, and rock physics models. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Dongzhuo Li , Kailai Xu , Jerry M. Harris , Eric Darve

Ultrasonic imaging methods often assume linear direct models, while in reality, many nonlinear phenomena are present, e.g. multiple reflections. A family of imaging methods called Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), which has been developed in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Daniel Rossato , Thiago Alberto Rigo Passarin , Gustavo Pinto Pires , Daniel Rodrigues Pipa

Full Wave Inversion (FWI) imaging scheme has many applications in engineering, geoscience and medical sciences. In this paper, a surrogate deep learning FWI approach is presented to quantify properties of materials using stress waves. Such…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 Reza Rashetnia , Mohammad Pour-Ghaz