Generalized row-action methods for tomographic imaging

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Abstract: Row-action methods play an important role in tomographic image reconstruction. Many such methods can be viewed as incremental gradient methods for minimizing a sum of a large number of convex functions, and despite their relatively poor global rate of convergence, these methods often exhibit fast initial convergence which is desirable in applications where a low-accuracy solution is acceptable. In this paper, we propose relaxed variants of a class of incremental proximal gradient methods, and these variants generalize many existing row-action methods for tomographic imaging. Moreover, they allow us to derive new incremental algorithms for tomographic imaging that incorporate different types of prior information via regularization. We demonstrate the efficacy of the approach with some numerical examples.


The tomographic image reconstruction is solved by row-action methods. The used methods can be viewed as incremental gradient methods, that means a process which minimizes the sum of a large number of convex functions. In some cases the rate of convergence of the method is very poor, but it could be acceptable. The paper develops relaxed variants of a class of incremental proximal gradient methods, which, as it follows, generalizes known row-action methods. The new incremental algorithms for tomographic imaging are derived. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated by numerical examples.



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