Cool!

If the PDL high-level implementation isn’t zippy enough, I’d be happy to give 
some pointers on PP-izing it.

> On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:59 PM, Luis Mochan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Well, I found a nice fast algorithm for a direct and an inverse Radon (almost)
> Transform and I think it lends itself for a nice implementation in
> PDL.
> 
> Press, William H. “Discrete Radon Transform Has an Exact, Fast Inverse
> and Generalizes to Operations Other than Sums along Lines.”
> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, no. 51 (December
> 19, 2006): 19249–54. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0609228103.
> 
> I'll post my solution here if I succeed.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Luis
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 01:51:01PM -0600, Craig DeForest wrote:
>> The “fft” option in PDL::Transform::map has to do with interpolation method, 
>> and isn’t directly relevant (unfortunately).  I used a subset of the radon 
>> transform in one of my papers (see the appendix; link here:  
>> https://bit.ly/38Bylg3 <https://bit.ly/38Bylg3>).  That was all 
>> roll-your-own, though:  I never packaged it up as a full radon transform.
>> 
>> If I were implementing one in the general case in PDL itself, I’d do 
>> something like a Fourier transform followed by a PDL::Transform::map to 
>> radial coordinates followed by an inverse Fourier transform.  PDL::FFTW3 
>> would be the right tool for that.  There’s probably something in the GSL 
>> already, though — if so, one could just link to that.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Boyd Duffee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Luis,
>>> 
>>> From the deafening silence to your question, I'd say no.  I had a quick 
>>> look around CPAN and I see nothing for Radon in PDL or Perl in general.
>>> 
>>> Then I had a look at what a Radon Transform 
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_transform> actually is and it is 
>>> **well cool**!   We were talking last week about the episode of House with 
>>> the bullet fragments and the MRI machine and started asking, how _do_ you 
>>> get a 3D image from a bunch of attenuations?
>>> 
>>> As it's not far off the Fourier transform, I'd say it's possible and maybe 
>>> PDL::Transform's map <https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::Transform#map1> 
>>> function with it's { map => 'fft' } option is a place to start hacking.  
>>> I'll have some free time in a couple of months if you want a willing 
>>> novice-to-PDL collaborator.  It sounds like something that Perl should have 
>>> in it's toolbox if we want our language to be serious about Scientific 
>>> Perl.  I think I've got a "tuit" around here somewhere.  :)
>>> 
>>> Saludos,
>>> Boyd
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:37 AM Luis Mochan <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is there an implementation of the Radon transform and its inverse in
>>> PDL? Or some implementation which may be called from PDL?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Luis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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