Efficient nonparametric Bayesian inference for X-ray transforms

DOI10.1214/18-AOS1708zbMATH Open1417.62060arXiv1708.06332OpenAlexW2962957435MaRDI QIDQ666595FDOQ666595

Authors: François Monard, Richard Nickl, Gabriel P. Paternain 

Publication date: 6 March 2019

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the statistical inverse problem of recovering a function $f:MomathbbR$, where $M$ is a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, from measurements of general $X$-ray transforms $I_a(f)$ of $f$, corrupted by additive Gaussian noise. For $M$ equal to the unit disk with `flat' geometry and $a=0$ this reduces to the standard Radon transform, but our general setting allows for anisotropic media $M$ and can further model local `attenuation' effects -- both highly relevant in practical imaging problems such as SPECT tomography. We propose a nonparametric Bayesian inference approach based on standard Gaussian process priors for $f$. The posterior reconstruction of $f$ corresponds to a Tikhonov regulariser with a reproducing kernel Hilbert space norm penalty that does not require the calculation of the singular value decomposition of the forward operator $I_a$. We prove Bernstein-von Mises theorems that entail that posterior-based inferences such as credible sets are valid and optimal from a frequentist point of view for a large family of semi-parametric aspects of $f$. In particular we derive the asymptotic distribution of smooth linear functionals of the Tikhonov regulariser, which is shown to attain the semi-parametric Cram'er-Rao information bound. The proofs rely on an invertibility result for the `Fisher information' operator $I_a^{\ast }{I}_a$ between suitable function spaces, a result of independent interest that relies on techniques from microlocal analysis. We illustrate the performance of the proposed method via simulations in various settings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06332

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zbMATH Keywords

reproducing kernel Hilbert spaceGaussian processinverse problemsemiparametric efficiencymicrolocal analysisRadon transformGaussian priorMAP estimateBernstein-von Mises theorem\(X\)-rayTikhonov regulariser

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Radon transform (44A12)

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