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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) plays a crucial role in non-invasive imaging, with both medical and industrial applications. In this paper, we present three data-driven reconstruction methods for EIT imaging. These three approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta , Imraj Singh , Tom Freudenberg , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Simon Arridge

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) enables non-invasive, spatially continuous reconstruction of internal conductivity distributions, providing full field sensing beyond conventional point measurements. Here, we report the first in situ…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Akash Deep , Andrea Samore , Alistair McEwan , Andrew McBride , Shanmugam Kumar

Objective: The strengths of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) are its capability of imaging the internal body by using a noninvasive, radiation safe technique, and the absence of known hazards. In this paper we introduce a novel idea of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Sebastien Martin

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) aims to recover the internal conductivity and permittivity distributions of a body from electrical measurements taken on electrodes on the surface of the body. The reconstruction task is a severely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Sarah Jane Hamilton , Jennifer L. Mueller , Melody Alsaker

Non-flat surfaces pose difficulties for robots operating in unstructured environments. Reconstructions of uneven surfaces may only be partially possible due to non-compliant end-effectors and limitations on vision systems such as…

We review developments, issues and challenges in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), for the 4th Workshop on Biomedical Applications of EIT, Manchester 2003. We focus on the necessity for three dimensional data collection and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 William R. B. Lionheart

Objective: Time-difference electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is gaining widespread use for bedside lung monitoring in intensive care patients suffering from lung-related diseases. It involves collecting voltage measurements from…

The advancements in vision-based tactile sensors have boosted the aptitude of robots to perform contact-rich manipulation, particularly when precise positioning and contact state of the manipulated objects are crucial for successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Changyi Lin , Han Zhang , Jikai Xu , Lei Wu , Huazhe Xu

Rapid deployment of new tactile sensors is essential for scalable robotic manipulation, especially in multi-fingered hands equipped with vision-based tactile sensors. However, current methods for inferring contact properties rely heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Christopher J. Ford , Kaichen Shi , Laura Butcher , Nathan F. Lepora , Efi Psomopoulou

Whole-body PET/CT is a cornerstone of oncological imaging, yet accurate lesion segmentation remains challenging due to tracer heterogeneity, physiological uptake, and multi-center variability. While fully automated methods have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Maximilian Rokuss , Yannick Kirchhoff , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Tactile sensing is one of the modalities humans rely on heavily to perceive the world. Working with vision, this modality refines local geometry structure, measures deformation at the contact area, and indicates the hand-object contact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Wenqiang Xu , Zhenjun Yu , Han Xue , Ruolin Ye , Siqiong Yao , Cewu Lu

Tactile sensing plays an important role in robotic perception and manipulation. To overcome the real-world limitations of data collection, simulating tactile response in virtual environment comes as a desire direction of robotic research.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yikai Wang , Wenbing Huang , Bin Fang , Fuchun Sun

Optical tactile sensors have recently become popular. They provide high spatial resolution, but struggle to offer fine temporal resolutions. To overcome this shortcoming, we study the idea of replacing the RGB camera with an event-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Niklas Funk , Erik Helmut , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Roberto Calandra , Jan Peters

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive medical imaging modality utilizing the current-density/voltage data measured on the surface of the subject. Calder\'on's method is a relatively recent EIT imaging algorithm that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

This paper presents a multi-resolution reconstruction method for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), referred to as MR-EIT, which is capable of operating in both supervised and unsupervised learning modes. MR-EIT integrates an ordered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Fangming Shi , Jinzhen Liu , Xiangqian Meng , Yapeng Zhou , Hui Xiong

Regularization methods using prior knowledge are essential in solving ill-posed inverse problems such as Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). However, designing effective regularization and integrating prior information into EIT remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Dong Liu , Yuanchao Wu , Bowen Tong , Jiansong Deng

High-density afferents in the human hand have long been regarded as essential for human grasping and manipulation abilities. In contrast, robotic tactile sensors are typically used to provide low-density contact data, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yashraj S. Narang , Karl Van Wyk , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox

In the pursuit of deeper immersion in human-machine interaction, achieving higher-dimensional tactile input and output on a single interface has become a key research focus. This study introduces the Visual-Electronic Tactile (VET) System,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Cong Zhang , Yisheng Yang , Shilong Mu , Chuqiao Lyu , Shoujie Li , Xinyue Chai , Wenbo Ding

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive medical imaging method that reconstructs electrical conductivity mediums from boundary voltage-current measurements, but its severe ill-posedness renders direct operator learning with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Amit Bhat , Ke Chen , Chunmei Wang

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging method whereby electrical measurements on the boundary of a conductive medium (the data) are taken according to a prescribed protocol set and inverted to map the internal…