Monte Carlo methods for light propagation in biological tissues

DOI10.1016/J.MBS.2015.08.017zbMATH Open1328.78005arXiv1311.5343OpenAlexW1433540548WikidataQ50855747 ScholiaQ50855747MaRDI QIDQ900720FDOQ900720

Tiphaine Obara, Céline Lacaux, Magalie Thomassin, Laura Vinckenbosch, S. Tindel

Publication date: 22 December 2015

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Light propagation in turbid media is driven by the equation of radiative transfer. We give a formal probabilistic representation of its solution in the framework of biological tissues and we implement algorithms based on Monte Carlo methods in order to estimate the quantity of light that is received by an homogeneous tissue when emitted by an optic fiber. A variance reduction method is studied and implemented, as well as a Markov chain Monte Carlo method based on the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. The resulting estimating methods are then compared to the so-called Wang-Prahl (or Wang) method. Finally, the formal representation allows to derive a non-linear optimization algorithm close to Levenberg-Marquardt that is used for the estimation of the scattering and absorption coefficients of the tissue from measurements.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5343

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zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationMarkov chain Monte Carlo methodslight propagationequation of radiative transfer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40) Monte Carlo methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M31)

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