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Waveform inversion seeks to estimate an inaccessible heterogeneous medium from data gathered by sensors that emit probing signals and measure the generated waves. It is an inverse problem for a second order wave equation or a first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Alexander V. Mamonov , Jörn Zimmerling

Single-Pixel Imaging (SPI) enables the reconstruction of objects using a single detector through sequential illuminations with structured light patterns. The choice of illumination patterns is critical, particularly in highly undersampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Serban Cristian Tudosie , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta , Simon Arridge

We consider an unsupervised bilevel optimization strategy for learning regularization parameters in the context of imaging inverse problems in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise. Compared to supervised and semi-supervised metrics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Carlo Santambrogio , Monica Pragliola , Alessandro Lanza , Marco Donatelli , Luca Calatroni

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

Variational regularization techniques are dominant in the field of mathematical imaging. A drawback of these techniques is that they are dependent on a number of parameters which have to be set by the user. A by now common strategy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

Most of the available advanced misfit functions for full waveform inversion (FWI) are hand-crafted, and the performance of those misfit functions is data-dependent. Thus, we propose to learn a misfit function for FWI, entitled ML-misfit,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-03-19 Bingbing Sun , Tariq Alkhalifah

Topology Optimization (TO), which maximizes structural robustness under material weight constraints, is becoming an essential step for the automatic design of mechanical parts. However, existing TO algorithms use the Finite Element Analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao , Kui Wu

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 Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a promising technique for achieving high-resolution imaging in medical ultrasound. However, conventional FWI methods suffer from issues related to computational efficiency, dependence on initial models, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Qiang Li , Heyu Ma , Chengcheng Liu , Dean Ta

Diffusion models have recently shown promise as powerful generative priors for inverse problems. However, conventional applications require solving the full reverse diffusion process and operating on noisy intermediate states, which poses…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Yuke Xie , Hervé Chauris , Nicolas Desassis

This paper presents a novel numerical method for the Newton seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI). The method is based on the full-space approach, where the state, adjoint state, and control variables are optimized simultaneously. Each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 M. Malovichko , A. Orazbayev , N. Khokhlov

In this paper, we study the performance of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) from time-harmonic Cauchy data via conditional well-posedness driven iterative regularization. The Cauchy data can be obtained with dual sensors measuring the pressure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Giovanni Alessandrini , Maarten V. de Hoop , Florian Faucher , Romina Gaburro , Eva Sincich

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

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a powerful wave-based imaging technique, but its inherent ill-posedness and non-convexity lead to local minima and poor convergence. Regularization methods stabilize FWI by incorporating prior information…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami

Full waveform inversion (FWI) plays an important role in velocity modeling due to its high-resolution advantages. However, its highly non-linear characteristic leads to numerous local minimums, which is known as the cycle-skipping problem.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qingchen Zhang , Shijun Cheng , Wei Chen , Weijian Mao

Conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) using the least-squares norm ($L^2$) as a misfit function is known to suffer from cycle skipping. This increases the risk of computing a local rather than the global minimum of the misfit. In our…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-05-12 Yunan Yang , Björn Engquist , Junzhe Sun , Brittany D. Froese

Prevention and early diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) is an essential prerequisite for the selection of proper treatment. The substantial pressure due to the increase of demand for faster and more precise diagnostic results drives for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Peter Bokor , Lukas Hudec , Ondrej Fabian , Wanda Benesova

Partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization problems such as seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) frequently arise in the geoscience and related fields. For such problems, many observations are usually gathered by multiple…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Kamal Aghazade , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stephane Operto

Full waveform inversion (FWI) updates the velocity model by minimizing the discrepancy between observed and simulated data. However, discretization errors in numerical modeling and incomplete seismic data acquisition can introduce noise,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Xinru Mu , Omar M. Saad , Tariq Alkhalifah

Time-lapse images carry out important information about dynamic changes in Earth's interior which can be inferred using different Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) schemes. The estimation process is performed by manipulating more than one…