Statistical inversion in electrical impedance tomography using mixed total variation and non-convex ℓp regularization prior

Author(s):  
Thilo Strauss ◽  
Taufiquar Khan

AbstractElectrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a well-known technique to estimate the conductivity distribution γ of a body Ω with unknown electromagnetic properties. EIT is a severely ill-posed inverse problem. In this paper, we formulate the EIT problem in the Bayesian framework using mixed total variation (TV) and non-convex ℓ

Sensor Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Pengcheng Zhang ◽  
Jianming Wang ◽  
Qingliang Chen ◽  
Zhijie Lian ◽  
...  

Purpose Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a technique for reconstructing the conductivity distribution by injecting currents at the boundary of a subject and measuring the resulting changes in voltage. Image reconstruction for EIT is a nonlinear problem. A generalized inverse operator is usually ill-posed and ill-conditioned. Therefore, the solutions for EIT are not unique and highly sensitive to the measurement noise. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops a novel image reconstruction algorithm for EIT based on patch-based sparse representation. The sparsifying dictionary optimization and image reconstruction are performed alternately. Two patch-based sparsity, namely, square-patch sparsity and column-patch sparsity, are discussed and compared with the global sparsity. Findings Both simulation and experimental results indicate that the patch based sparsity method can improve the quality of image reconstruction and tolerate a relatively high level of noise in the measured voltages. Originality/value EIT image is reconstructed based on patch-based sparse representation. Square-patch sparsity and column-patch sparsity are proposed and compared. Sparse dictionary optimization and image reconstruction are performed alternately. The new method tolerates a relatively high level of noise in measured voltages.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1525-1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni S. Alberti ◽  
Habib Ammari ◽  
Bangti Jin ◽  
Jin-Keun Seo ◽  
Wenlong Zhang

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
HABIB AMMARI ◽  
FAOUZI TRIKI ◽  
CHUN-HSIANG TSOU

The multifrequency electrical impedance tomography consists in retrieving the conductivity distribution of a sample by injecting a finite number of currents with multiple frequencies. In this paper, we consider the case where the conductivity distribution is piecewise constant, takes a constant value outside a single smooth anomaly, and a frequency dependent function inside the anomaly itself. Using an original spectral decomposition of the solution of the forward conductivity problem in terms of Poincaré variational eigenelements, we retrieve the Cauchy data corresponding to the extreme case of a perfect conductor, and the conductivity profile. We then reconstruct the anomaly from the Cauchy data. The numerical experiments are conducted using gradient descent optimization algorithms.


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