Abstract
AbstractThe distorted Born iterative method (DBIM) is a widely used quantitative reconstruction algorithm to solve the inverse scattering problems of microwave imaging. The major mathematical challenges in solving such problems are non-uniqueness, non-linearity, and ill-posedness. Due to these issues, the optimization algorithm converges to a local minimum. This drawback can be overcome by selecting the correct initial guess solution, which helps to escape local minima and thus guides the inversion algorithm to a satisfactory result. This study uses a back-propagation algorithm to calculate the initial estimate, which significantly accelerates the rate of convergence and improves the accuracy of the standard DBIM approach. The results of this method are compared with zero initialization and Born-approximated initialization. For comparison, weak as well as strong scattering profiles of synthetic and experimental dataset are considered. The results suggest that the proposed method provides a significant improvement in terms of computing cost and efficiency. Furthermore, the proposed technique has the potential to successfully push the limits of reconstructible contrast.
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