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Zheng HY, Li Y, Wang N, Xiang Y, Liu JH, Zhang LD, Huang L, Wang ZY. A novel framework for three-dimensional electrical impedance tomography reconstruction of maize ear via feature reconfiguration and residual networks. PeerJ Comput Sci 2024; 10:e1944. [PMID: 38660147 PMCID: PMC11042020 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
Abstract
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides an indirect measure of the physiological state and growth of the maize ear by reconstructing the distribution of electrical impedance. However, the two-dimensional (2D) EIT within the electrode plane finds it challenging to comprehensively represent the spatial distribution of conductivity of the intact maize ear, including the husk, kernels, and cob. Therefore, an effective method for 3D conductivity reconstruction is necessary. In practical applications, fluctuations in the contact impedance of the maize ear occur, particularly with the increase in the number of grids and computational workload during the reconstruction of 3D spatial conductivity. These fluctuations may accentuate the ill-conditioning and nonlinearity of the EIT. To address these challenges, we introduce RFNetEIT, a novel computational framework specifically tailored for the absolute imaging of the three-dimensional electrical impedance of maize ear. This strategy transforms the reconstruction of 3D electrical conductivity into a regression process. Initially, a feature map is extracted from measured boundary voltage via a data reconstruction module, thereby enhancing the correlation among different dimensions. Subsequently, a nonlinear mapping model of the 3D spatial distribution of the boundary voltage and conductivity is established, utilizing the residual network. The performance of the proposed framework is assessed through numerical simulation experiments, acrylic model experiments, and maize ear experiments. Our experimental results indicate that our method yields superior reconstruction performance in terms of root-mean-square error (RMSE), correlation coefficient (CC), structural similarity index (SSIM), and inverse problem-solving time (IPST). Furthermore, the reconstruction experiments on maize ears demonstrate that the method can effectively reconstruct the 3D conductivity distribution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hai-Ying Zheng
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Acquisition Technology (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Modern Precision Agriculture System Integration Research, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Acquisition Technology (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Modern Precision Agriculture System Integration Research, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Acquisition Technology (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Modern Precision Agriculture System Integration Research, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Acquisition Technology (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Modern Precision Agriculture System Integration Research, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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Calderón's Method with a Spatial Prior for 2-D EIT Imaging of Ventilation and Perfusion. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21165635. [PMID: 34451077 PMCID: PMC8402350 DOI: 10.3390/s21165635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 07/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Bedside imaging of ventilation and perfusion is a leading application of 2-D medical electrical impedance tomography (EIT), in which dynamic cross-sectional images of the torso are created by numerically solving the inverse problem of computing the conductivity from voltage measurements arising on electrodes due to currents applied on electrodes on the surface. Methods of reconstruction may be direct or iterative. Calderón’s method is a direct reconstruction method based on complex geometrical optics solutions to Laplace’s equation capable of providing real-time reconstructions in a region of interest. In this paper, the importance of accurate modeling of the electrode location on the body is demonstrated on simulated and experimental data, and a method of including a priori spatial information in dynamic human subject data is presented. The results of accurate electrode modeling and a spatial prior are shown to improve detection of inhomogeneities not included in the prior and to improve the resolution of ventilation and perfusion images in a human subject.
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