Andreas Kofler, Fabian Altekrüger, Fatima Antarou Ba, Christoph Kolbitsch, Evangelos Papoutsellis, David Schote, Clemens Sirotenko, Felix Frederik Zimmermann, Kostas Papafitsoros
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2202-2246, December 2023. Abstract. We introduce a method for the fast estimation of data-adapted, spatially and temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV) minimization. The proposed approach is inspired by recent developments in algorithm unrolling using deep neural networks (NNs) and relies on two distinct subnetworks. The first subnetwork estimates the regularization parameter-map from the input data. The second subnetwork unrolls [math] iterations of an iterative algorithm which approximately solves the corresponding TV-minimization problem incorporating the previously estimated regularization parameter-map. The overall network is then trained end-to-end in a supervised learning fashion using pairs of clean and corrupted data but crucially without the need for access to labels for the optimal regularization parameter-maps. We first prove consistency of the unrolled scheme by showing that the unrolled minimizing energy functional used for the supervised learning [math]-converges, as [math] tends to infinity, to the corresponding functional that incorporates the exact solution map of the TV-minimization problem. Then, we apply and evaluate the proposed method on a variety of large-scale and dynamic imaging problems with retrospectively simulated measurement data for which the automatic computation of such regularization parameters has been so far challenging using the state-of-the-art methods: a 2D dynamic cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction problem, a quantitative brain MRI reconstruction problem, a low-dose computed tomography problem, and a dynamic image denoising problem. The proposed method consistently improves the TV reconstructions using scalar regularization parameters, and the obtained regularization parameter-maps adapt well to imaging problems and data by leading to the preservation of detailed features. Although the choice of the regularization parameter-maps is data-driven and based on NNs, the subsequent reconstruction algorithm is interpretable since it inherits the properties (e.g., convergence guarantees) of the iterative reconstruction method from which the network is implicitly defined.
{"title":"Learning Regularization Parameter-Maps for Variational Image Reconstruction Using Deep Neural Networks and Algorithm Unrolling","authors":"Andreas Kofler, Fabian Altekrüger, Fatima Antarou Ba, Christoph Kolbitsch, Evangelos Papoutsellis, David Schote, Clemens Sirotenko, Felix Frederik Zimmermann, Kostas Papafitsoros","doi":"10.1137/23m1552486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/23m1552486","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2202-2246, December 2023. <br/> Abstract. We introduce a method for the fast estimation of data-adapted, spatially and temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV) minimization. The proposed approach is inspired by recent developments in algorithm unrolling using deep neural networks (NNs) and relies on two distinct subnetworks. The first subnetwork estimates the regularization parameter-map from the input data. The second subnetwork unrolls [math] iterations of an iterative algorithm which approximately solves the corresponding TV-minimization problem incorporating the previously estimated regularization parameter-map. The overall network is then trained end-to-end in a supervised learning fashion using pairs of clean and corrupted data but crucially without the need for access to labels for the optimal regularization parameter-maps. We first prove consistency of the unrolled scheme by showing that the unrolled minimizing energy functional used for the supervised learning [math]-converges, as [math] tends to infinity, to the corresponding functional that incorporates the exact solution map of the TV-minimization problem. Then, we apply and evaluate the proposed method on a variety of large-scale and dynamic imaging problems with retrospectively simulated measurement data for which the automatic computation of such regularization parameters has been so far challenging using the state-of-the-art methods: a 2D dynamic cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction problem, a quantitative brain MRI reconstruction problem, a low-dose computed tomography problem, and a dynamic image denoising problem. The proposed method consistently improves the TV reconstructions using scalar regularization parameters, and the obtained regularization parameter-maps adapt well to imaging problems and data by leading to the preservation of detailed features. Although the choice of the regularization parameter-maps is data-driven and based on NNs, the subsequent reconstruction algorithm is interpretable since it inherits the properties (e.g., convergence guarantees) of the iterative reconstruction method from which the network is implicitly defined.","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2175-2201, December 2023. Abstract. We consider the problem of reconstructing one-dimensional point sources from their Fourier measurements in a bounded interval [math]. This problem is known to be challenging in the regime where the spacing of the sources is below the Rayleigh length [math]. In this paper, we propose a superresolution algorithm, called iterative focusing-localization and iltering, to resolve closely spaced point sources from their multiple measurements that are obtained by using multiple unknown illumination patterns. The new proposed algorithm has a distinct feature in that it reconstructs the point sources one by one in an iterative manner and hence requires no prior information about the source numbers. The new feature also allows for a subsampling strategy that can reconstruct sources using small-sized Hankel matrices and thus circumvent the computation of singular-value decomposition for large matrices as in the usual subspace methods. In addition, the algorithm can be paralleled. A theoretical analysis of the methods behind the algorithm is also provided. The derived results imply a phase transition phenomenon in the reconstruction of source locations which is confirmed in the numerical experiment. Numerical results show that the algorithm can achieve a stable reconstruction for point sources with a minimum separation distance that is close to the theoretical limit. The efficiency and robustness of the algorithm have also been tested. This algorithm can be generalized to higher dimensions.
{"title":"IFF: A Superresolution Algorithm for Multiple Measurements","authors":"Zetao Fei, Hai Zhang","doi":"10.1137/23m1568569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/23m1568569","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2175-2201, December 2023. <br/> Abstract. We consider the problem of reconstructing one-dimensional point sources from their Fourier measurements in a bounded interval [math]. This problem is known to be challenging in the regime where the spacing of the sources is below the Rayleigh length [math]. In this paper, we propose a superresolution algorithm, called iterative focusing-localization and iltering, to resolve closely spaced point sources from their multiple measurements that are obtained by using multiple unknown illumination patterns. The new proposed algorithm has a distinct feature in that it reconstructs the point sources one by one in an iterative manner and hence requires no prior information about the source numbers. The new feature also allows for a subsampling strategy that can reconstruct sources using small-sized Hankel matrices and thus circumvent the computation of singular-value decomposition for large matrices as in the usual subspace methods. In addition, the algorithm can be paralleled. A theoretical analysis of the methods behind the algorithm is also provided. The derived results imply a phase transition phenomenon in the reconstruction of source locations which is confirmed in the numerical experiment. Numerical results show that the algorithm can achieve a stable reconstruction for point sources with a minimum separation distance that is close to the theoretical limit. The efficiency and robustness of the algorithm have also been tested. This algorithm can be generalized to higher dimensions.","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2144-2174, December 2023. Abstract. Turbulent fluctuations of the electron number density in the Earth’s ionosphere may hamper the performance of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Previously, we have quantified the extent of the possible degradation of transionospheric SAR images as it depends on the state of the ionosphere and parameters of the SAR instrument. Yet no attempt has been made to mitigate the adverse effect of the ionospheric turbulence. In the current work, we propose a new optimization-based autofocus algorithm that helps correct the turbulence-induced distortions of spaceborne SAR images. Unlike the traditional autofocus procedures available in the literature, the new algorithm allows for the dependence of the phase perturbations of SAR signals not only on slow time but also on the target coordinates. This dependence is central for the analysis of image distortions due to turbulence, but in the case of traditional autofocus where the distortions are due to uncertainties in the antenna position, it is not present.
{"title":"Transionospheric Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar","authors":"Mikhail Gilman, Semyon V. Tsynkov","doi":"10.1137/22m153570x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/22m153570x","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2144-2174, December 2023. <br/> Abstract. Turbulent fluctuations of the electron number density in the Earth’s ionosphere may hamper the performance of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Previously, we have quantified the extent of the possible degradation of transionospheric SAR images as it depends on the state of the ionosphere and parameters of the SAR instrument. Yet no attempt has been made to mitigate the adverse effect of the ionospheric turbulence. In the current work, we propose a new optimization-based autofocus algorithm that helps correct the turbulence-induced distortions of spaceborne SAR images. Unlike the traditional autofocus procedures available in the literature, the new algorithm allows for the dependence of the phase perturbations of SAR signals not only on slow time but also on the target coordinates. This dependence is central for the analysis of image distortions due to turbulence, but in the case of traditional autofocus where the distortions are due to uncertainties in the antenna position, it is not present.","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2105-2143, December 2023. Abstract. By introducing a new operator theory, we provide a unified mathematical theory for general source resolution in the multi-illumination imaging problem. Our main idea is to transform multi-illumination imaging into single-snapshot imaging with a new imaging kernel that depends on both the illumination patterns and the point spread function of the imaging system. We therefore prove that the resolution of multi-illumination imaging is approximately determined by the essential cutoff frequency of the new imaging kernel, which is roughly limited by the sum of the cutoff frequency of the point spread function and the maximum essential frequency in the illumination patterns. Our theory provides a unified way to estimate the resolution of various existing super-resolution modalities and results in the same estimates as those obtained in experiments. In addition, based on the reformulation of the multi-illumination imaging problem, we also estimate the resolution limits for resolving both complex and positive sources by sparsity-based approaches. We show that the resolution of multi-illumination imaging is approximately determined by the new imaging kernel from our operator theory and better resolution can be realized by sparsity-promoting techniques in practice but only for resolving very sparse sources. This explains experimentally observed phenomena in some sparsity-based super-resolution modalities.
{"title":"An Operator Theory for Analyzing the Resolution of Multi-illumination Imaging Modalities","authors":"Ping Liu, Habib Ammari","doi":"10.1137/23m1551730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/23m1551730","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 2105-2143, December 2023. <br/> Abstract. By introducing a new operator theory, we provide a unified mathematical theory for general source resolution in the multi-illumination imaging problem. Our main idea is to transform multi-illumination imaging into single-snapshot imaging with a new imaging kernel that depends on both the illumination patterns and the point spread function of the imaging system. We therefore prove that the resolution of multi-illumination imaging is approximately determined by the essential cutoff frequency of the new imaging kernel, which is roughly limited by the sum of the cutoff frequency of the point spread function and the maximum essential frequency in the illumination patterns. Our theory provides a unified way to estimate the resolution of various existing super-resolution modalities and results in the same estimates as those obtained in experiments. In addition, based on the reformulation of the multi-illumination imaging problem, we also estimate the resolution limits for resolving both complex and positive sources by sparsity-based approaches. We show that the resolution of multi-illumination imaging is approximately determined by the new imaging kernel from our operator theory and better resolution can be realized by sparsity-promoting techniques in practice but only for resolving very sparse sources. This explains experimentally observed phenomena in some sparsity-based super-resolution modalities.","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo Pereyra, Luis A. Vargas-Mieles, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis
Developing efficient Bayesian computation algorithms for imaging inverse problems is challenging due to the dimensionality involved and because Bayesian imaging models are often not smooth. Current state-of-the-art methods often address these difficulties by replacing the posterior density with a smooth approximation that is amenable to efficient exploration by using Langevin Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. An alternative approach is based on data augmentation and relaxation, where auxiliary variables are introduced in order to construct an approximate augmented posterior distribution that is amenable to efficient exploration by Gibbs sampling. This paper proposes a new accelerated proximal MCMC method called latent space SK-ROCK (ls SK-ROCK), which tightly combines the benefits of the two aforementioned strategies. Additionally, instead of viewing the augmented posterior distribution as an approximation of the original model, we propose to consider it as a generalisation of this model. Following on from this, we empirically show that there is a range of values for the relaxation parameter for which the accuracy of the model improves, and propose a stochastic optimisation algorithm to automatically identify the optimal amount of relaxation for a given problem. In this regime, ls SK-ROCK converges faster than competing approaches from the state of the art, and also achieves better accuracy since the underlying augmented Bayesian model has a higher Bayesian evidence. The proposed methodology is demonstrated with a range of numerical experiments related to image deblurring and inpainting, as well as with comparisons with alternative approaches from the state of the art. An open-source implementation of the proposed MCMC methods is available from https://github.com/luisvargasmieles/ls-MCMC.
{"title":"The Split Gibbs Sampler Revisited: Improvements to Its Algorithmic Structure and Augmented Target Distribution","authors":"Marcelo Pereyra, Luis A. Vargas-Mieles, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis","doi":"10.1137/22m1506122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/22m1506122","url":null,"abstract":"Developing efficient Bayesian computation algorithms for imaging inverse problems is challenging due to the dimensionality involved and because Bayesian imaging models are often not smooth. Current state-of-the-art methods often address these difficulties by replacing the posterior density with a smooth approximation that is amenable to efficient exploration by using Langevin Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. An alternative approach is based on data augmentation and relaxation, where auxiliary variables are introduced in order to construct an approximate augmented posterior distribution that is amenable to efficient exploration by Gibbs sampling. This paper proposes a new accelerated proximal MCMC method called latent space SK-ROCK (ls SK-ROCK), which tightly combines the benefits of the two aforementioned strategies. Additionally, instead of viewing the augmented posterior distribution as an approximation of the original model, we propose to consider it as a generalisation of this model. Following on from this, we empirically show that there is a range of values for the relaxation parameter for which the accuracy of the model improves, and propose a stochastic optimisation algorithm to automatically identify the optimal amount of relaxation for a given problem. In this regime, ls SK-ROCK converges faster than competing approaches from the state of the art, and also achieves better accuracy since the underlying augmented Bayesian model has a higher Bayesian evidence. The proposed methodology is demonstrated with a range of numerical experiments related to image deblurring and inpainting, as well as with comparisons with alternative approaches from the state of the art. An open-source implementation of the proposed MCMC methods is available from https://github.com/luisvargasmieles/ls-MCMC.","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135185986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arttu Arjas, Mikko J. Sillanpää, Andreas S. Hauptmann
{"title":"Sequential Model Correction for Nonlinear Inverse Problems","authors":"Arttu Arjas, Mikko J. Sillanpää, Andreas S. Hauptmann","doi":"10.1137/23m1549286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/23m1549286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135731510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A main task in cryo-electron microscopy single particle reconstruction is to find a three-dimensional model of a molecule given a set of its randomly oriented and positioned noisy projection-images. In this work, we propose an algorithm for ab-initio reconstruction for molecules with tetrahedral or octahedral symmetry. The algorithm exploits the multiple common lines between each pair of projection-images as well as self common lines within each image. It is robust to noise in the input images as it integrates the information from all images at once. The applicability of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated using experimental cryo-electron microscopy data.
{"title":"A Common Lines Approach for Ab Initio Modeling of Molecules with Tetrahedral and Octahedral Symmetry","authors":"Adi Shasha Geva, Yoel Shkolnisky","doi":"10.1137/22m150383x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/22m150383x","url":null,"abstract":"A main task in cryo-electron microscopy single particle reconstruction is to find a three-dimensional model of a molecule given a set of its randomly oriented and positioned noisy projection-images. In this work, we propose an algorithm for ab-initio reconstruction for molecules with tetrahedral or octahedral symmetry. The algorithm exploits the multiple common lines between each pair of projection-images as well as self common lines within each image. It is robust to noise in the input images as it integrates the information from all images at once. The applicability of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated using experimental cryo-electron microscopy data.","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Data-Assisted Two-Stage Method for the Inverse Random Source Problem","authors":"Peijun Li, Ying Liang, Yuliang Wang","doi":"10.1137/23m1562561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/23m1562561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49528,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135970093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}