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New Hardware and Software Design for Electrical Impedance Tomography

2007· dissertation· en· W1612636452 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Mehran Goharian

Bibliographic record

VenueMacSphere (McMaster University) · 2007
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicElectrical and Bioimpedance Tomography
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsElectrical impedance tomographySoftwareTomographyElectrical impedanceElectrical resistivity tomographyComputer scienceElectrical engineeringEngineeringMedicineRadiologyElectrical resistivity and conductivityOperating system
DOInot available

Abstract

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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an imaging technique that reconstructs the internal electrical properties of an object from boundary voltage measurements. In this technique a series of electrodes is attached to the surface of an object and alternating current is passed via these electrodes and the resulting voltages are measured. Reconstruction of internal conductivity images requires the solution of an illconditioned nonlinear inverse problem from the noisy boundary voltage measurements. Such unreliable boundary measurements make the solutions unstable. To obtain stable and meaningful solutions regularization is used. This thesis deals with the EIT problem from the perspective of both image reconstruction and hardware design. This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part covers the development of 3D image reconstruction algorithms for single and multi-frequency EIT. The second part relates to the design of novel multi-frequency hardware and performance testing of the hardware using the designed phantom. Three different approaches for image reconstruction of EIT are presented: 1) The dogleg algorithm is introduced as an alternative method to Levenberg-Marquardt for solving the EIT inverse problem. It was found that the dogleg technique requires less computation time to converge to the same result as the Levenberg-Marquardt. 2) We propose a novel approach to build a subspace for regularization using a spectral and spatial multifrequency analysis approach. The approach is based on the construction of a subspace for the expected conductivity distributions using principal component analysis (peA). The advantage of this technique is that priori information for regularization matrix is determined from the statistical nature of the multifrequency data. 3) We present a quadratic constrained least square approach to the EIT problem. The proposed approach is based on the trust region subproblem (TRS), which uses L-curve maximum curvature criteria to fmd a regularization parameter. Our results show that the TRS algorithm has the advantage that it does not require any knowledge of the norm of the noise for its process. 4) The second part of thesis discuses the designing, implementation, and testing a novel 48-channel multifrequency EIT system. The system specifications proved to be comparable with the existing EIT systems with capability of 3-D measurement over selectable frequencies. The proposed algorithms are [mally tested under experimental situation using designed EIT hardware. The conductivity and permittivity images for different targets were reconstructed using four different approaches: dog-leg, principal component analysis (PCA), Gauss-Newton, and difference imaging. In the case of the multi-frequency analysis, the PCA-based approach provided a substantial improvement over the Gauss-Newton technique in terms of systematic error reduction. Our EIT system recovered a conductivity value of 0.08 Sm-l for the 0.07 Sm-l piece of cucumber (14% error).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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