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A two-step shape reconstruction method for diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is presented which uses adjoint fields and level sets. The propagation of near-infrared photons in tissue is modeled by the time-dependent linear transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Oliver Dorn

In this work, we consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of a three dimensional impenetrable sound-soft axis-symmetric obstacle from measurements of the scattered field at multiple frequencies. This problem has important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Carlos Borges , Jun Lai

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

Human ability to visualize an image is usually hindered by optical scattering. Recent extensive studies have promoted imaging technique through turbid materials to a reality where color image can be restored behind scattering media in real…

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

A new sampling method for inverse scattering problems is proposed to process far field data of one incident wave. As the linear sampling method, the method sets up ill-posed integral equations and uses the (approximate) solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Juan Liu , Jiguang Sun

Imaging with optical resolution through and inside complex samples is a difficult challenge with important applications in many fields. The fundamental problem is that inhomogeneous samples, such as biological tissues, randomly scatter and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Pierre Heidmann , Mathias Fink , Sylvain Gigan

Implicit representation of shapes as level sets of multilayer perceptrons has recently flourished in different shape analysis, compression, and reconstruction tasks. In this paper, we introduce an implicit neural representation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tin Vlašić , Hieu Nguyen , AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh , Ivan Dokmanić

This paper is concerned with the inverse acoustic scattering problems of reconstructing time-dependent multiple point sources and sources on a curve $L$ of the form $\lambda(t)\tau(x)\delta_L(x)$. A direct sampling method with a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Jiaru Wang , Bo Chen , Qingqing Yu , Yao Sun

We consider the problem of determining the shape and location of an unknown penetrable object in a perfectly conducting electromagnetic waveguide. The inverse problem is posed in the frequency domain and uses multistatic data in the near…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas , Fan Yang

The direct sampling method (DSM) has been introduced for non-iterative imaging of small inhomogeneities and is known to be fast, robust, and effective for inverse scattering problems. However, to the best of our knowledge, a full analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Sangwoo Kang , Marc Lambert , Won-Kwang Park

Inverse problems involve making inference about unknown parameters of a physical process using observational data. This paper investigates an important class of inverse problems -- the estimation of the initial condition of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-09 Xiao Liu , Kyongmin Yeo

Established x-ray diffraction methods allow for high-resolution structure determination of crystals, crystallized protein structures or even single molecules. While these techniques rely on coherent scattering, incoherent processes like…

In this paper, we present algorithms for reconstructing an unknown compact scatterer embedded in a random noisy background medium, given measurements of the scattered field and information about the background medium and the sound profile.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Carlos Borges , George Biros

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang , Jiaqing Yang

Consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle $D\subset \mathbb R^N$ embedded in a homogeneous background medium. The index of refraction characterizing the material inside $D$ is supposed to be H\"older…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Guanghui Hu , Mikko Salo , Esa V. Vesalainen

Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. The current methods for computational time reversal imaging are based on the null subspace projection operator,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-06-16 M. Andrecut

Scattering, especially multiple scattering, is a well known problem in imaging, ranging from astronomy to medicine. In particular it is often desirable to be able to perform non-invasive imaging through turbid and/or opaque media. Many…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-23 Harry Penketh , Jacopo Bertolotti

The inverse problem we consider is to reconstruct the location and shape of buried obstacles in the lower half-space of an unbounded two-layered medium in two dimensions from phaseless far-field data. A main difficulty of this problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Long Li , Jiansheng Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang