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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
An empirical study of algebraic-reconstruction techniques
Ehsan Mohamad Kazemi & Nedialko S. Nedialkov
Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
ABSTRACT: We study empirically four algebraic-reconstruction techniques (ART methods): Kacz-
marz’s method, Symmetric Kaczmarz, Randomized Kaczmarz, and Simultaneous ART (SART). The
performance of these methods depends on a relaxation parameter, whose role has not been understood
completely. We use a simple heuristic ...