Microwave medical imaging based on sparsity and an iterative method with adaptive thresholding

M Azghani, P Kosmas, F Marvasti - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new image recovery method to improve the resolution in microwave imaging
applications. Scattered field data obtained from a simplified breast model with closely …

Microwave imaging of nonweak targets via compressive sensing and virtual experiments

MT Bevacqua, L Crocco, L Di Donato… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compressive sensing (CS)-based techniques can represent a very attractive approach to
inverse scattering problems. In fact, if the unknown has a sparse representation and the …

Evaluation of a tumor detection microwave system with a realistic breast phantom

M Koutsoupidou, IS Karanasiou… - Microwave and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we describe recent advances regarding a novel microwave imaging system
intended to be used for in‐depth inspection of breast tissues. The system is made of a …

Sparse signal processing

M Azghani, F Marvasti - … Approximation and Sampling Theory: Festschrift in …, 2014 - Springer
Conventional sampling techniques are based on Shannon-Nyquist theory which states that
the required sampling rate for perfect recovery of a band-limited signal is at least twice its …

L2-Regularized Iterative Weighted Algorithm for Inverse Scattering

M Azghani, F Marvasti - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new inverse scattering technique based on sparsity for the application of
microwave imaging. The underdetermined inverse problem appeared in the distorted born …

Iterative null-space projection method with adaptive thresholding in sparse signal recovery and matrix completion

A Esmaeili, E Asadi, F Marvasti - arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00287, 2016 - arxiv.org
Adaptive thresholding methods have proved to yield high SNRs and fast convergence in
finding the solution to the Compressed Sensing (CS) problems. Recently, it was observed …

Novel inversion tools to improve performance of the DBIM algorithm for microwave medical imaging

P Kosmas, Z Miao - 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents recent results from the application of new linear inversion methods to
the Distorted Born Iterative Method (DBIM) for quantitative microwave breast imaging. We …

A (CS)2 approach to inverse scattering

M Bevacqua, T Isernia, L Crocco… - 2014 IEEE Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An innovative approach exploiting the Compressive Sensing theory in the solution of the
non linear inverse scattering problem is presented. In fact, the proposed approach tackles …

Iterative least squares algorithm for inverse problem in microwave medical imaging

M Azghani, F Marvasti - 2016 24th European Signal Processing …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inverse problem in MicroWave Imaging (MWI) is an ill-posed one which can be solved
with the aid of the sparsity prior of the solution. In this paper, an Iterative Least Squares …

Applications of sparse signal processing

M Azghani, F Marvasti - … IEEE Global Conference on Signal and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse signal processing has found various applications in different research areas where
the sparsity of the signal of interest plays a significant role in addressing their ill-posedness …