Title
DeepNIS: Deep Neural Network for Nonlinear Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering.
Abstract
Nonlinear electromagnetic (EM) inverse scattering is a quantitative and super-resolution imaging technique, in which more realistic interactions between the internal structure of scene and EM wavefield are taken into account in the imaging procedure, in contrast to conventional tomography. However, it poses important challenges arising from its intrinsic strong nonlinearity, ill-posedness, and expensive computational costs. To tackle these difficulties, we, for the first time to our best knowledge, exploit a connection between the deep neural network (DNN) architecture and the iterative method of nonlinear EM inverse scattering. This enables the development of a novel DNN-based methodology for nonlinear EM inverse problems (termed here DeepNIS). The proposed DeepNIS consists of a cascade of multilayer complex-valued residual convolutional neural network modules. We numerically and experimentally demonstrate that the DeepNIS outperforms remarkably conventional nonlinear inverse scattering methods in terms of both the image quality and computational time. We show that DeepNIS can learn a general model approximating the underlying EM inverse scattering system. It is expected that the DeepNIS will serve as powerful tool in treating highly nonlinear EM inverse scattering problems over different frequency bands, which are extremely hard and impractical to solve using conventional inverse scattering methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/tap.2018.2885437
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Inverse problems,Neural networks,Electromagnetics,Electromagnetic scattering,Computer architecture,Imaging,Iterative methods
Data mining,Nonlinear system,Iterative method,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Algorithm,Image quality,Inverse problem,Artificial neural network,Inverse scattering problem,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1810.03990
3
0018-926X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
11
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lianlin Li110217.46
Long Gang Wang231.11
Fernando L. Teixeira39716.97
Che Liu473.56
Arye Nehorai51257126.92
Tiejun Cui6393117.66