User-friendly Building of Reconstruction Algorithms with GlobalBioIm

The current shift towards computational imaging has made reconstruction procedures an integral part of many advanced imaging systems. A consequence is that imaging scientists now commonly require efficient and reliable computational tools for solving their inverse problems. To this end, we recently developed GlobalBioIm, an open-source Matlab library that standardizes the resolution of a wide range of imaging problems [1]. This toolbox gives access to cutting-edge reconstruction algorithms, and can be extended to new modalities and methods by combining elementary modules. The versatility and efficiency of GlobalBioIm have been highlighted in a series of recent high-impact works [2-4]. Driven by these encouraging applications, we have devoted our efforts towards improving the usability of GlobalBioIm by those with limited expertise in inverse problems and optimization theory. The outcome is a new user-friendly Matlab interface (Figure 1) that allows non-experts to intuitively build tailored reconstruction algorithms with minimal effort. Figure 1: The new GlobalBioIm GUI (left) can be used to solve various inverse problems (right).