A differential evolution-based iterative multi-scaling algorithm for microwave imaging of dielectric structures

2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 90-95

  Donelli, M ^a   Massa, A ^a   Oliveri, G ^a   Pastorino, M ^b   Randazzo, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Inverse scattering; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ILL-POSEDNESS; INVERSE SCATTERING; INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTISCALING; NEW APPROACHES; NON-LINEARITY; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

BIOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SCATTERING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77957854022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IST.2010.5548515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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