On the algorithmic inversion of the discrete Radon transform

  • Authors:
  • Peter Gritzmann;Sven de Vries

  • Affiliations:
  • Zentrum Mathematik, München, Germany;Zentrum Mathematik, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The present paper deals with the computational complexity of the discrete inverse problem of reconstructing finite point sets and more general functionals with finite support that are accessible only through some of the values of their discrete Radon transform. It turns out that this task behaves quite differently from its well-studied companion problem involving 1-dimensional X-rays. Concentrating on the case of coordinate hyperplanes in Rd and on functionals :ZdD with D{{0,1,...,r},N0} for some arbitrary but fixed r, we show in particular that the problem can be solved in polynomial time if information is available for m such hyperplanes when md1 but is NP-hard for m=d and D={0,1,...,r}. However, for D=N0, a case that is relevant in the context of contingency tables, the problem is still in P. Similar results are given for the task of determining the uniqueness of a given solution and for a related counting problem.