Iterative reconstruction methods using regularization and optimal current patterns in electrical impedance tomography

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Hua ◽  
E.J. Woo ◽  
J.G. Webster ◽  
W.J. Tompkins
Author(s):  
Juliana Carneiro Gomes ◽  
Maíra Araújo de Santana ◽  
Clarisse Lins de Lima ◽  
Ricardo Emmanuel de Souza ◽  
Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is an imaging technique based on the excitation of electrode pairs applied to the surface of the imaged region. The electrical potentials generated from alternating current excitation are measured and then applied to boundary-based reconstruction methods. When compared to other imaging techniques, EIT is considered a low-cost technique without ionizing radiation emission, safer for patients. However, the resolution is still low, depending on efficient reconstruction methods and low computational cost. EIT has the potential to be used as an alternative test for early detection of breast lesions in general. The most accurate reconstruction methods tend to be very costly as they use optimization methods as a support. Backprojection tends to be rapid but more inaccurate. In this work, the authors propose a hybrid method, based on extreme learning machines and backprojection for EIT reconstruction. The results were applied to numerical phantoms and were considered adequate, with potential to be improved using post processing techniques.


2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Demidenko ◽  
A. Hartov ◽  
N. Soni ◽  
K.D. Paulsen

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1201-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari P Kaipio ◽  
Aku Seppänen ◽  
Arto Voutilainen ◽  
Heikki Haario

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 919-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
J P Kaipio ◽  
A Seppänen ◽  
E Somersalo ◽  
H Haario

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Edriss Eisa Babikir Adam ◽  
Sathesh

Recently, the image reconstruction study on EIT plays a vital role in the medical application field for validation and calibration purpose. This research article analyzes the different types of reconstruction algorithms of EIT in medical imaging applications. Besides, it reviews many methods involved in constructing the electrical impedance tomography. The spatial distribution and resolution with different sensitivity has been discussed here. The electrode arrangement of various methods involved in the EIT system is discussed here. This research article comprises of adjacent drive method, cross method, and alternative opposite current direction method based on the voltage driven pattern. The assessment process of biomedical EIT has been discussed and investigated through the impedance imaging of the existent substances. The locality of the electrodes can be calculated and fixed for appropriate methods. More specifically, this research article discusses about the EIT image reconstruction methods and the significance of the alternative opposite current direction approach in the biomedical system. The change in conductivity test is further investigated based on the injection of current flow in the system. It has been established by the use of Electrical Impedance Tomography and Diffuse Optical Tomography Reconstruction Software (EDITORS) software, which is open-source software.


2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustapha Azzouz ◽  
Martin Hanke ◽  
Chantal Oesterlein ◽  
Karl Schilcher

We present numerical results for two reconstruction methods for a new planar electrical impedance tomography device. This prototype allows noninvasive medical imaging techniques if only one side of a patient is accessible for electric measurements. The two reconstruction methods have different properties: one is a linearization-type method that allows quantitative reconstructions; the other one, that is, the factorization method, is a qualitative one, and is designed to detect anomalies within the body.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kyounghun Lee ◽  
Minha Yoo ◽  
Ariungerel Jargal ◽  
Hyeuknam Kwon

This paper proposes a deep learning method based on electrical impedance tomography (EIT) to estimate the thickness of abdominal subcutaneous fat. EIT for evaluating the thickness of abdominal subcutaneous fat is an absolute imaging problem that aims at reconstructing conductivity distributions from current-to-voltage data. Existing reconstruction methods based on EIT have difficulty handling the inherent drawbacks of strong nonlinearity and severe ill-posedness of EIT; hence, absolute imaging may not be possible using linearized methods. To handle nonlinearity and ill-posedness, we propose a deep learning method that finds useful solutions within a restricted admissible set by accounting for prior information regarding abdominal anatomy. We determined that a specially designed training dataset used during the deep learning process significantly reduces ill-posedness in the absolute EIT problem. In the preprocessing stage, we normalize current-voltage data to alleviate the effects of electrodeposition and body geometry by exploiting knowledge regarding electrode positions and body geometry. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated through numerical simulations and phantom experiments using a 10 channel EIT system and a human-like domain.


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