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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology Volume 2012, Article ID 491713, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/491713 Review Article Swarm Optimization Methods in Microwave Imaging Andrea Randazzo Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic, and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 11A, 16145 Genova, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Andrea Randazzo, randazzo@dibe.unige.it Received 8 August 2012; Accepted 21 September 2012 Academic Editor: Kristen M. Donnell Copyright © 2012 Andrea Randazzo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Swarm intelligence denotes a class of new stochastic algorithms inspired by the collective social behavior of natural entities (e.g., birds, ants, etc.). Such approaches have been proven to be quite effective in several applicative fields, ranging from intelligent routing to image processing. In the last years, they have also been successfully applied in electromagnetics, especially for antenna synthesis, component design, and microwave imaging. In this paper, the application of swarm optimization methods to microwave imaging is discussed, and some recent imaging approaches based on such methods are critically reviewed. 1. Introduction In the literature several approaches have been proposed for solving this problem. In particular, two main classes Microwave imaging denotes a class of noninvasive of algorithms can be identified. Deterministic [6–21] and