Sima Noghanian • Abas Sabouni • Travis Desell
Ali Ashtari

2014

Global Optimization, Parallelization
and Performance Evaluation

Microwave imaging is a new area of research in imaging community. One of the applications for microwave imaging is biomedical imaging. Microwave imaging is the process by which radiofrequency electromagnetic waves are used to generate an image. This book focuses on microwave tomography imaging which provides quantitative images. Generally, microwave tomography is categorized under inverse scattering problem. The focus in this book will be techniques that are based on global optimization and electromagnetic numerical methods. These methods usually are cumbersome due to their computational burden; therefore, they have got very little attention in the literature. To make these methods more applicable and feasible it is necessary to speed up the computations for real-time analysis.