TY - JOUR A2 - Yu, Hengyong AU - Wallace, Tim AU - Sekmen, Ali PY - 2014 DA - 2014/12/15 TI - Kaczmarz Iterative Projection and Nonuniform Sampling with Complexity Estimates SP - 908984 VL - 2014 AB - Kaczmarz’s alternating projection method has been widely used for solving mostly over-determined linear system of equations Ax=b in various fields of engineering, medical imaging, and computational science. Because of its simple iterative nature with light computation, this method was successfully applied in computerized tomography. Since tomography generates a matrix A with highly coherent rows, randomized Kaczmarz algorithm is expected to provide faster convergence as it picks a row for each iteration at random, based on a certain probability distribution. Since Kaczmarz’s method is a subspace projection method, the convergence rate for simple Kaczmarz algorithm was developed in terms of subspace angles. This paper provides analyses of simple and randomized Kaczmarz algorithms and explains the link between them. New versions of randomization are proposed that may speed up convergence in the presence of nonuniform sampling, which is common in tomography applications. It is anticipated that proper understanding of sampling and coherence with respect to convergence and noise can improve future systems to reduce the cumulative radiation exposures to the patient. Quantitative simulations of convergence rates and relative algorithm benchmarks have been produced to illustrate the effects of measurement coherency and algorithm performance, respectively, under various conditions in a real-time kernel. SN - 2314-5129 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/908984 DO - 10.1155/2014/908984 JF - Journal of Medical Engineering PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -