Dissertations, Authored Books and Edited Volumes

Y. Censor, Linear Inequalities and Global Univalence of Mappings, M.Sc. Thesis (Hebrew, 79pp.), Department of Mathematics, Technion-I.I.T., Haifa, Israel, July 1969.

Y. Censor, Contributions to Optimization Theory: Multiobjective Problems, D.Sc. Thesis (Hebrew, 80pp.), Department of Mathematics, Technion-I.I.T., Haifa, Israel, August 1975.

Y. Censor, T. Elfving and G.T. Herman, (Editors), Linear Algebra in Image Reconstruction from Projections, Elsevier Science Publishing Company, New York, NY, USA, 1990. Special Issue of the Journal "Linear Algebra and Its Applications", Vol. 130 (305pp., ISSN 0024-3795). For information please click here.

Y. Censor and S.A. Zenios, Introduction to Methods of Parallel Optimization, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 1993 (280pp., ISBN 85-244-0074-9). This little book was published for a Short Course on the subject presented at the "19th Coloquio Brasileiro de Matematica".

Y. Censor and S.A. Zenios, Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA, 1997 (576pp., ISBN 0-19-510062-X). Find more information by clicking here or click here to go directly to the book page at the publisher's site. The authors received for this book the 1999 INFORMS Computing Society prize. For a book review by Janos D. Pinter click here (PDF 13KB).

Y. Censor and S. Reich (Editors), Recent Developments in Optimization Theory and Nonlinear Analysis, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 204, American Mathematical Society (AMS), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 1997 (278pp., ISBN 0-8218-0515-0). Find more by clicking here.

D. Butnariu, Y. Censor and S. Reich (Editors), Inherently Parallel Algorithms in Feasibility and Optimization and Their Applications, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001 (516pp., ISBN 0-444-50595-4). This book is based on contributions from the participants of the Research Workshop on this topic that was held in Haifa, Israel, in March 2000. Please click here to go to the publisher.

Y. Censor and M. Ding (Editors), Visualization and Optimization Techniques, SPIE Proceedings Volume 4553, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA, 2001 (416pp., ISBN 0-8194-4281-X). This volume contains papers from the Second International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan, P.R. China, October 22-24, 2001.

Y. Censor, J.M. Galvin, M. Langer and Y. Xiao (Editors), Linear and Nonlinear Models and Algorithms in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Special Issue of the Journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications (LAA), by Elsevier Science Publishing Company, New York, NY, USA, Volume 428, Issues 5-6, Pages 1203-1420 (1 March 2008). Elsevier's ScienceDirect.

Y. Censor, M. Jiang and A.K. Louis (Editors), Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, Italy, 2008. The book is internationally distributed by Birkhauser-Verlag. Front page, Table of Contents, Preface, and Authors' Addresses PDF (633KB).

Y. Censor, M. Jiang and G. Wang (Editors), Biomedical Mathematics: Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning and Inverse Problems, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI, USA, 2009, to appear, in progress.

Research Articles in Refereed Journals, Book Collections and Conference Proceedings

[03] Y. Censor, Pareto optimality in multiobjective problems, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Vol. 4, pp. 41-59, (1977). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[05] Y. Censor, D.E. Gustafson, A. Lent and H. Tuy, A new approach to the emission computerized tomography problem: Simultaneous calculation of attenuation and activity coefficients, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. NS-26, pp. 2775-2779, (1979). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[07] Y. Censor, Necessary conditions for Pareto optimality in simultaneous Chebyshev best approximation, Journal of Approximation Theory, Vol. 27, pp. 127-134, (1979). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[09] A. Lent and Y. Censor, Extensions of Hildreth's row-action method for quadratic programming, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 18, pp. 444-454, (1980). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[14] Y. Censor, Row-action methods for huge and sparse systems and their applications, SIAM Review, Vol. 23, pp. 444-466, (1981). Full paper PDF (2.3MB) file available from JSTOR. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[20] Y. Censor, P.P.B. Eggermont and D. Gordon, Strong underrelaxation in Kaczmarz's method for inconsistent systems, Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 41, pp. 83-92, (1983). E-reprint of published paper PDF (752KB) file.

[24] M.D. Altschuler and Y. Censor, Feasibility solutions in radiation therapy treatment planning, in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 1984, pp. 220-224. E-reprint of published paper PDF (353KB) file.

[29] G.T. Herman, Y. Censor, D. Gordon and R.M. Lewitt, "Comment" (on: Y. Vardi, L.A. Shepp and L. Kaufman, "On a statistical model for positron emission tomography"), Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 80, pp. 22-25, (1985). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[31] Y. Censor, W.D. Powlis and M.D. Altschuler, On the fully discretized model for the inverse problem of radiation therapy treatment planning, in: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, (K.R. Foster, Editor), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, USA, Vol. 1 (1987), pp. 211-214. E-reprint of published paper PDF (101KB) file.

[37] Y. Censor, M.D. Altschuler and W.D. Powlis, On the use of Cimmino's simultaneous projections method for computing a solution of the inverse problem in radiation therapy treatment planning, Inverse Problems, Vol. 4, pp. 607-623, (1988). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

1997

[63] D. Butnariu, Y. Censor and S. Reich, Iterative averaging of entropic projections for solving stochastic convex feasibility problems, Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 8, pp. 21-39, (1997). E-reprint of published paper PDF (202KB) file.

1998

[64] Y. Censor, A.N. Iusem and S.A. Zenios, An interior point method with Bregman functions for the variational inequality problem with paramonotone operators, Mathematical Programming, Vol. 81, pp. 373-400, (1998).

[65] Y. Censor and S. Reich, The Dykstra algorithm with Bregman projections, Communications in Applied Analysis, Vol. 2, pp. 407-419, (1998). Final version preprint PDF (198KB) file.

1999

[66] Y. Censor, Mathematical aspects of radiation therapy treatment planning: Continuous inversion versus full discretization and optimization versus feasibility, in: Computational Radiology and Imaging: Therapy and Diagnosis, C. Borgers and F. Natterer (Editors), The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 110, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, USA, 1999, pp. 101-112. Final version preprint PDF (227KB) file.

[67] Y. Censor and S. Matej, Binary steering of non-binary iterative algorithms, in: Discrete Tomography: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications, G.T. Herman and A. Kuba (Editors), Birkhauser, Boston, MA, USA, 1999, pp. 285-296. Full paper PDF (239KB) file.

[68] L.M. Bregman, Y. Censor and S. Reich, Dykstra's algorithm as the nonlinear extension of Bregman's optimization method, Journal of Convex Analysis, Vol. 6, pp. 319-333, (1999). Final version preprint PDF (217KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

2000

2001

[69] Y. Censor, D. Gordon and R. Gordon, Component averaging: An efficient iterative parallel algorithm for large and sparse unstructured problems, Parallel Computing, Vol. 27, pp. 777-808, (2001). Final version preprint PDF (1.0MB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[70] Y. Censor, T. Elfving and G.T. Herman, Averaging strings of sequential iterations for convex feasibility problems, in: Inherently Parallel Algorithms in Feasibility and Optimization and Their Applications, D. Butnariu, Y. Censor and S. Reich (Editors), Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001, pp. 101-114. Final version preprint PDF (207KB) file.

[71] Y. Censor, D. Gordon and R. Gordon, BICAV: A block-iterative, parallel algorithm for sparse systems with pixel-related weighting, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, pp. 1050-1060, (2001). Final version preprint files: text PDF (311KB), plots and images PDF (107KB). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[72] Y. Censor, On sequential and parallel projection algorithms for feasibility and optimization (Keynote Paper), in: Visualization and Optimization Techniques, Y. Censor and M. Ding (Editors), Proceedings of SPIE Volume 4553, SPIE-The Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, WA, USA, 2001, pp. 1-9. Final version preprint PDF (222KB) file.

[73] C. Byrne and Y. Censor, Proximity function minimization using multiple Bregman projections, with applications to split feasibility and Kullback-Leibler distance minimization, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 105, pp. 77-98, (2001). E-reprint of published paper PDF (171KB) file. This paper is an abridged version of: C. Byrne and Y. Censor, Proximity function minimization using multiple Bregman projections, with applications to entropy optimization and Kullback-Leibler distance minimization, unpublished Research Report, June 7, 1999.

[74] Y. Censor, Binary steering in discrete tomography reconstruction with sequential and simultaneous iterative algorithms, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol. 339, pp. 111-124, (2001). Final version preprint PDF (359KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

2002

[75] Y. Censor, N. Cohen, T. Kutscher (Kotzer) and J. Shamir, Summed squared distance error reduction of simultaneous multiprojections and applications, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 126, pp. 157-179, (2002). E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[76] Y. Censor and S.A. Zenios, Parallel algorithms in optimization, in: Handbook of Applied Optimization (P.M. Pardalos and M.G.C. Resende, Editors), Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA, 2002, pp. 544-559.

[77] Y. Censor and T. Elfving, Block-iterative algorithms with diagonally scaled oblique projections for the linear feasibility problem, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 24, pp. 40-58, (2002). Final version preprint PDF (212KB) file, or go to SIAM Journals Online. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[**] Y. Censor, Book Review on: The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography (Classics in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 32, Philadelphia, PA, USA: SIAM 2001), by Frank Natterer, Inverse Problems, Vol. 18, pp. 283-284, (2002). Full review PDF 21KB file.

[78] Y. Censor and G.T. Herman, Block-iterative algorithms with underrelaxed Bregman projections, SIAM Journal on Optimizations, Vol. 13, pp. 283-297, (2002). Final version preprint PDF (336KB) file, or go to SIAM Journals Online. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[**] J.M. Galvin, Y. Xiao, Y. Chen, G. Bednarz, D. Michalski, Y. Censor, C. Houser, M. Hossain and M.S. Huq, The optimization of inverse planning and IMRT, presented at the 44th AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 14-18, 2002. Final version preprint PDF (341KB) file, or click here.

[**] Y. Censor, A University is Not A Business, Guest Article, Haaretz Daily Newspaper, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 17, 2002, (Hebrew, PDF, 25KB), (English, PDF, 15KB).

2003

[79] D. Butnariu, C. Byrne and Y. Censor, Redundant axioms in the definition of Bregman functions, Journal of Convex Analysis, Vol. 10, pp. 245-254, (2003). Final version preprint PDF (215KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[80] Y. Xiao, Y. Censor, D. Michalski and J.M. Galvin, The least-intensity feasible solution for aperture-based inverse planning in radiation therapy, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 119, pp. 183-203, (2003). E-reprint of published paper PDF (786KB) file.

[81] Y. Censor and T. Elfving, Iterative algorithms with seminorm-induced oblique projections, Abstract and Applied Analysis, Vol. 2003, pp. 387-406, (2003). Final version preprint PDF (295KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[**] Y. Censor, The End of An Excellent Education System, Guest Article, Haaretz Daily Newspaper, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 15, 2003, (Hebrew, PDF, 567KB).

[**] Y. Censor, An Israeli View - A University Is Not A Business, The Funneled Web (http://www.the-funneled-web.com), "News and Views - December 2002", 6th item (or view a PDF (188KB) file of the same) posted: January 5, 2003.

[82] Y. Censor, Mathematical optimization for the inverse problem of intensity modulated radiation therapy, in: J.R. Palta and T.R. Mackie (Editors), Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: The State of The Art, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Medical Physics Monograph No. 29, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2003, pp. 25-49. Final version preprint PDF (130KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[83] L.M. Bregman, Y. Censor, S. Reich and Y. Zepkowitz-Malachi, Finding the projection of a point onto the intersection of convex sets via projections onto halfspaces, Journal of Approximation Theory, Vol. 124, pp. 194-218, (2003). Final version preprint PDF (397KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[84] Y. Censor and E. Tom, Convergence of string-averaging projection schemes for inconsistent convex feasibility problems, Optimization Methods and Software, Vol. 18, pp. 543-554, (2003). Final version preprint PDF (202KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

2004

[85] C.O.S. Sorzano, R. Marabini, G.T. Herman, Y. Censor and J.M. Carazo, Transfer function restoration in 3D electron microscopy via iterative data refinement, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 49, pp. 509-522, (2004). Final version preprint PDF (266KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[86] D. Michalski, Y. Xiao, Y. Censor and J.M. Galvin, The dose-volume constraint satisfaction problem for inverse treatment planning with field segments, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 49, pp. 601-616, (2004). Final version preprint PDF (425KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Nominated to "Highlights of 2004", a collection of 26 best papers, out of ca. 420 papers and notes, published in this journal in the year 2004.

[87] Y. Xiao, D. Michalski, Y. Censor and J.M. Galvin, Inherent smoothness of intensity patterns for intensity modulated radiation therapy generated by simultaneous projection algorithms, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 49, pp. 3227-3245, (2004). Final version preprint PDF (1.12MB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[**] Y. Censor, In the Absence of Academic Independence, Guest Article, Haaretz Daily Newspaper, Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 6, 2004, (Hebrew, PDF, 27KB).

[88] Y. Censor, A.R. De Pierro and M. Zaknoon, Steered sequential projections for the inconsistent convex feasibility problem, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Series A: Theory and Methods), Vol. 59, pp. 385-405, (2004). Final version preprint PDF (310KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

2005

[89] A. Aleyner and Y. Censor, Best approximation to common fixed points of a semigroup of nonexpansive operators, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, Vol. 6, pp. 137-151, (2005). Final version preprint PDF (230KB) file.

[**] Y. Censor, How is A Nobel Prize Created, Guest Article, Haaretz Daily Newspaper, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 23, 2005, (Hebrew, PDF, 24KB).

[**] Y. Censor and I. Gur-ze'ev, The struggle of the academic community for the future of Israeli academia: Alternative assessments of the activity of the "Inter-Senate Committee of the Universities for the Protection of Academic Independence", in: Ilan Gur-Ze'ev (Editor), The End of Israeli Academia? Published by the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 2005, pp. 92-109. (PDF, Hebrew, 434KB).

[90] Y. Censor, T. Elfving, N. Kopf and T. Bortfeld, The multiple-sets split feasibility problem and its applications for inverse problems, Inverse Problems, Vol. 21, pp. 2071-2084, (2005). Final version preprint PDF (274KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[**] Y. Censor, The tiger fable, or 'send your bread over the water', Panim, Quarterly for Society, Culture and Education, Published by the Israel Teachers Union (ITU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, Issue No. 34, December 2005, pp. 21-29. (Hebrew, PDF, 620KB).

2006

[91] Y. Censor and S.A. Zenios, Parallel optimization methods, in: Handbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics (E.J. Kontoghiorghes, Editor), Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2006, pp. 199-224. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[92] Y. Censor and A. Segal, Algorithms for the quasiconvex feasibility problem, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 185, pp. 34-50, (2006). Final version preprint PDF (266KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[93] Y. Censor, Computational acceleration of projection algorithms for the linear best approximation problem, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol. 416, pp. 111-123, (2006). Final version preprint PDF (260KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[94] B. Johansson, T. Elfving, V. Kozlov, Y. Censor, P.-E. Forssén and G. Granlund, The application of an oblique-projected Landweber method to a model of supervised learning, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 43, pp. 892-909, (2006). Final version preprint PDF (400KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[95] Y. Censor, T. Bortfeld, B. Martin and A. Trofimov, A unified approach for inversion problems in intensity-modulated radiation therapy, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 51, pp. 2353-2365, (2006). Final version preprint PDF (237KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Also available from IOP Select for one year from online publication. Nominated to "Highlights of 2006", a collection of 25 best papers, out of 520 papers, published in this journal in the year 2006.

2007

[96] Y. Censor, A. Motova and A. Segal, Perturbed projections and subgradient projections for the multiple-sets split feasibility problem, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 327, pp. 1244-1256, (2007). Final version preprint PDF (243KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[**] Y. Censor, The Crisis in the Higher Education System: On the Sins of the Committee of University Presidents, a guest article published in the newspaper Israel Today (Israel Hayom) Newspaper, November 20, 2007, vol. 1, issue number 76, p. 15. (PDF, Hebrew, 1 page, 220KB).

[**] Y. Censor, The Annihilation of the Academia, a guest article published in Haaretz daily newspaper on Wednesday, December 5, 2007. (PDF, Hebrew, 1 page, 38KB).

To read six earlier guest articles of Yair Censor on the crisis in the higher education system in Israel please click on the following links:
(1) "A University is Not A Business", Haaretz, December 17, 2002. (Hebrew, PDF, 25KB),
(2) "The End of An Excellent Education System", Haaretz, October 15, 2003. (Hebrew, PDF, 567KB),
(3) "In the Absence of Academic Independence", Haaretz, July 6, 2004. (Hebrew, PDF, 27KB),
(4) "How is A Nobel Prize Created", Haaretz, March 23, 2005. (Hebrew, PDF, 24KB),
(5) "The Loss of Academic Freedom", Haaretz, February 18, 2007. (PDF, Hebrew, 2 pages, 88KB),
(6) "The Crisis in the Higher Education System: On the Sins of the Committee of University Presidents", "Israel Today" (Israel Hayom), November 20, 2007. (PDF, Hebrew, 1 page, 220KB).

2008

[97] Y. Censor, J.M. Galvin, M. Langer and Y. Xiao, Preface: Linear and Nonlinear Models and Algorithms in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol. 428, pp. 1203-1206, (2008). E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Final version preprint PDF (231KB) file.

[98] Y. Censor, A. Ben-Israel, Y. Xiao and J.M. Galvin, On linear infeasibility arising in intensity-modulated radiation therapy inverse planning, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol. 428, pp. 1406-1420, (2008). E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Final version preprint PDF (357KB) file.

[99] Y. Censor, T. Elfving, G.T. Herman and T. Nikazad, On diagonally-relaxed orthogonal projection methods, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol. 30, pp. 473-504, (2008). E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Final version preprint PDF (465KB) file.

[**] Y. Censor, J.M. Galvin, M. Langer and Y. Xiao (Editors), Linear and Nonlinear Models and Algorithms in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Special Issue of the Journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications (LAA), by Elsevier Science Publishing Company, New York, NY, USA, Volume 428, Issues 5-6, Pages 1203-1420, 2008. Elsevier's ScienceDirect.

[**] Y. Censor, M. Jiang and A.K. Louis (Editors), Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, Italy, 2008. The book is internationally distributed by Birkhauser-Verlag. Front page, Table of Contents, Preface, and Authors' Addresses PDF (633KB).

[100] Y. Censor, S. Reich and A.J. Zaslavski, General algorithmic frameworks for online problems, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 46, pp. 19-36, (2008). E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Final version preprint PDF (223KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request. View the table of contents of this issue of IJPAM on MathSciNet or here, PDF (153KB).

[101] D. Butnariu, Y. Censor, P. Gurfil and E. Hadar, On the behavior of subgradient projections methods for convex feasibility problems in Euclidean spaces, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 19, pp. 786-807, (2008). E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Final version preprint PDF (415KB) file.

[102] W. Chen, G.T. Herman and Y. Censor, Algorithms for satisfying dose-volume constraints in intensity-modulated radiation therapy, in: Y. Censor, M. Jiang and A.K. Louis (Editors), Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, Italy, 2008, pp. 97-106. Final version preprint PDF (172KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[103] Y. Censor and A. Segal, Iterative projection methods in biomedical inverse problems, in: Y. Censor, M. Jiang and A.K. Louis (Editors), Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, Italy, 2008, pp. 65-96. Final version preprint PDF (250KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[104] Y. Censor and A. Gibali, Projections onto super-half-spaces for monotone variational inequality problems in finite-dimensional spaces, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, Vol. 9, pp. 461-475, (2008). Final version preprint PDF (253KB) file.

2009

[105] Y. Censor and A. Segal, On the string averaging method for sparse common fixed points problems, International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 16, pp. 481-494, (2009). Final version preprint PDF (186KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[106] Y. Censor and A. Segal, The split common fixed point problem for directed operators, Journal of Convex Analysis, Vol. 16, pp. 587-600, (2009). Final version preprint PDF (250KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[107] R. Davidi, G.T. Herman, and Y. Censor, Perturbation-resilient block-iterative projection methods with application to image reconstruction from projections, International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 16, pp. 505-524, (2009). Final version preprint PDF (624KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request.

[108] S.N. Penfold, R.W. Schulte, Y. Censor, V. Bashkirov, S. McAllister, K.E. Schubert and A.B. Rosenfeld, Block-iterative and string-averaging projection algorithms in proton computed tomography image reconstruction, in: Y. Censor, M. Jiang and G. Wang (Editors), Biomedical Mathematics: Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning and Inverse Problems, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI, USA, 2010, accepted for publication. Final version preprint PDF (463KB) file.

[109] Y. Censor, G.T. Herman and M. Jiang, A note on the behavior of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm of Strohmer and Vershynin, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Vol. 15, pp. 431-436, (2009). Final version preprint PDF (145KB) file. E-reprint of published paper available upon request. Remark: An editorial comment and a response by Strohmer and Vershynin related to our note appear in Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications at: Vol. 15, pp. 429-430, (2009) and at: Vol. 15, pp. 437-440, (2009), respectively.

[110] A. Segal and Y. Censor, Seminorm-induced oblique projections for sparse nonlinear convex feasibility problems, in: Y. Censor, M. Jiang and G. Wang (Editors), Biomedical Mathematics: Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning and Inverse Problems, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI, USA, 2010, accepted for publication. Final version preprint PDF (235KB) file.

[111] S.N. Penfold, R.W. Schulte, Y. Censor, V. Bashkirov, and A.B. Rosenfeld, Characteristics of proton CT images reconstructed with filtered backprojection and iterative projection algorithms, in: Conference Record of The 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2009 IEEE-NSS-MIC), October 25-31, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA, to appear. Final version preprint PDF (235KB) file.

[**] Y. Censor, The Efficient Science, a guest article published in Haaretz daily newspaper on Sunday, December 13, 2009. (PDF, Hebrew, 1 page, 436KB).

2010

[**] Y. Censor, M. Jiang and G. Wang (Editors), Biomedical Mathematics: Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning and Inverse Problems, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI, USA, 2010, to appear.

[112] Y. Censor and A. Segal, Sparse string-averaging and split common fixed points, Contemporary Mathematics, accepted for publication, to appear in 2010. Final version preprint PDF (308KB) file.

[113] Y. Censor, W. Chen, P.L. Combettes, R. Davidi and G.T. Herman, On the effectiveness of projection methods for convex feasibility problems with linear inequality constraints, Technical Report, December 22, 2009. PDF (326KB) file.

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