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The inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography is severely ill-posed, meaning that, only limited information about the conductivity can in practice be recovered from boundary measurements of electric current and voltage. Recently it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Henrik Garde , Stratos Staboulis

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) systems are becoming popular because they present several advantages over competing systems. However, EIT leads to images with very low resolution. Moreover, the nonuniform sampling characteristic of…

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This paper treats the inverse problem of retrieving the electrical conductivity of a material starting from boundary measurements in the framework of Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT). In particular, the focus is on non-iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Antonello Tamburrino , Vincenzo Mottola

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging method with diverse applications, including medical imaging and non-destructive testing. The inverse problem of reconstructing internal electrical conductivity from boundary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Sara Sippola , Siiri Rautio , Andreas Hauptmann , Takanori Ide , Samuli Siltanen

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides functional images of an electrical conductivity distribution inside the human body. Since the 1980s, many potential clinical applications have arisen using inexpensive portable EIT devices. EIT…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Kyounghun Lee , Eung Je Woo , Jin Keun Seo

The aim of electrical impedance tomography is to reconstruct the admittivity distribution inside a physical body from boundary measurements of current and voltage. Due to the severe ill-posedness of the underlying inverse problem, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Jérémi Dardé , Nuutti Hyvönen , Aku Seppänen , Stratos Staboulis

In Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), the internal conductivity of a body is recovered via current and voltage measurements taken at its surface. The reconstruction task is a highly ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem, which is very…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Sarah Hamilton , Andreas Hauptmann , Samuli Siltanen

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a widely employed imaging technique in industrial inspection, geophysical prospecting, and medical imaging. However, the inherent nonlinearity and ill-posedness of EIT image reconstruction present…

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We present a meshless Schwarz-type non-overlapping domain decomposition method based on artificial neural networks for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). To ensure the consistency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shamsulhaq Basir , Inanc Senocak

Physics has played a fundamental role in medicine sciences, specially in imaging diagnostic. Currently, image reconstruction techniques are already taught in Physics courses and there is a growing interest in new potential applications. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-02-22 Olavo Henrique Menin , Vanessa Rolnik , Alexandre Souto Martinez

This study revisits the problem of identifying the unknown interior Robin boundary of a connected domain using Cauchy data from the exterior region of a harmonic function. It investigates two shape optimization reformulations employing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Lekbir Afraites , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

Image reconstruction of EIT mathematically is a typical nonlinear and severely ill-posed inverse problem. Appropriate priors or penalties are required to enable the reconstruction. The commonly used L2-norm can enforce the stability to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Jing Wang , Bo Han , Wei Wang

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 non-invasive imaging modality that has earned significant attention for its potential in real-time monitoring of various physiological parameters. Despite its promise, the sensitivity and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Georgii Kormakov , Nikolay Koshev

A novel computational, non-iterative and noise-robust reconstruction method is introduced for the planar anisotropic inverse conductivity problem. The method is based on bypassing the unstable step of the reconstruction of the values of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Sarah Jane Hamilton , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen

We develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

The aim of electrical impedance tomography is to form an image of the conductivity distribution inside an unknown body using electric boundary measurements. The computation of the image from measurement data is a non-linear ill-posed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Samuli Siltanen , Janne P. Tamminen

The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Kang Yang , Kevin Yang , Xintie Yang , Shuang-Ren Zhao

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

The regularized D-bar method is a popular method for solving Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) problems due to its efficiency and simplicity. It utilizes the low-pass truncated scattering data in the non-linear Fourier domain to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Xiang Cao , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xiaoqun Zhang