Shape reconstruction method for imaging conductive materials in Electrical Capacitance Tomography

Author(s):  
Wael A. Deabes ◽  
Mohamed Abdelrahman
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wael Deabes ◽  
Alaa Sheta ◽  
Kheir Eddine Bouazza ◽  
Mohamed Abdelrahman

This paper presents highly robust, novel approaches to solving the forward and inverse problems of an Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) system for imaging conductive materials. ECT is one of the standard tomography techniques for industrial imaging. An ECT technique is nonintrusive and rapid and requires a low burden cost. However, the ECT system still suffers from a soft-field problem which adversely affects the quality of the reconstructed images. Although many image reconstruction algorithms have been developed, still the generated images are inaccurate and poor. In this work, the Capacitance Artificial Neural Network (CANN) system is presented as a solver for the forward problem to calculate the estimated capacitance measurements. Moreover, the Metal Filled Fuzzy System (MFFS) is proposed as a solver for the inverse problem to construct the metal images. To assess the proposed approaches, we conducted extensive experiments on image metal distributions in the lost foam casting (LFC) process to light the reliability of the system and its efficiency. The experimental results showed that the system is sensible and superior.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 284-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Lei ◽  
Shi Liu

Abstract Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is considered to be a competitive measurement method. The imaging objects in ECT measurements are often in a time-varying process, and exploiting the prior information related to the dynamic nature is important for reconstructing high-quality images. Different from existing reconstruction models, in this paper a new model that incorporates the spatial correlation of the pixels by introducing the radial basis function (RBF) method, the dynamic behaviors of a timevarying imaging object, and the ECT measurement information is proposed to formulate the dynamic imaging problem. An objective functional that exploits the spatial correlation of the pixels, the combinational regularizer of the first-order total variation (FOTV) and the second-order total variation (SOTV), the multi-scale regularization, the spatial constraint, and the temporal correlation is proposed to convert the ECT imaging task into an optimization problem. A split Bregman iteration (SBI) method based iteration scheme is developed for solving the proposed objective functional. Numerical simulation results validate the superiority of the proposed reconstruction method on the improvement of the imaging quality.


2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 885-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Martínez Olmos ◽  
G. Botella ◽  
E. Castillo ◽  
Diego P. Morales ◽  
J. Banqueri ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir Teniou ◽  
Mahmoud Meribout ◽  
Thuraya Al-Hanaei ◽  
Fatima Al-Zaabi ◽  
Rehab Banihashim ◽  
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