Multigrid hierarchical simulated annealing method for reconstructing heterogeneous media.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G8.

Published: December 2015

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  • A new reconstruction method uses different-phase-neighbor (DPN) pixel swapping and multigrid hierarchical annealing for more efficient image refinement starting from a coarse version.
  • This approach helps maintain large-scale structures in images and minimizes the number of pixel swaps needed, which significantly cuts down computational time.
  • It achieves a speed improvement of about 70-90 times compared to traditional methods, allowing for medium-sized 3D reconstructions (up to 300³ voxels) within 36-47 hours.

Article Abstract

A reconstruction methodology based on different-phase-neighbor (DPN) pixel swapping and multigrid hierarchical annealing is presented. The method performs reconstructions by starting at a coarse image and successively refining it. The DPN information is used at each refinement stage to freeze interior pixels of preformed structures. This preserves the large-scale structures in refined images and also reduces the number of pixels to be swapped, thereby resulting in a decrease in the necessary computational time to reach a solution. Compared to conventional single-grid simulated annealing, this method was found to reduce the required computation time to achieve a reconstruction by around a factor of 70-90, with the potential of even higher speedups for larger reconstructions. The method is able to perform medium sized (up to 300(3) voxels) three-dimensional reconstructions with multiple correlation functions in 36-47 h.

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