Compressed sensing for inverse problems and the sample complexity of the sparse Radon transform

  • Giovanni S. Alberti

    University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
  • Alessandro Felisi

    University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
  • Matteo Santacesaria

    University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
  • S. Ivan Trapasso

    Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Abstract

Compressed sensing allows for the recovery of sparse signals from few measurements, whose number is proportional to the sparsity of the unknown signal, up to logarithmic factors. The classical theory typically considers either random linear measurements or subsampled isometries and has found many applications, including accelerated magnetic resonance imaging, which is modeled by the subsampled Fourier transform. In this work, we develop a general theory of infinite-dimensional compressed sensing for abstract inverse problems, possibly ill-posed, involving an arbitrary forward operator. This is achieved by considering a generalized restricted isometry property and a quasi-diagonalization property of the forward map. As a notable application, for the first time, we obtain rigorous recovery estimates for the sparse Radon transform (i.e., with a finite number of angles ), which models computed tomography, in both the parallel-beam and the fan-beam settings. In the case when the unknown signal is -sparse with respect to an orthonormal basis of compactly supported wavelets, we prove stable recovery under the condition , up to logarithmic factors.

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Giovanni S. Alberti, Alessandro Felisi, Matteo Santacesaria, S. Ivan Trapasso, Compressed sensing for inverse problems and the sample complexity of the sparse Radon transform. J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2025), published online first

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1617