A Fast Inclusion Boundary Reconstruction Framework for Electrical Impedance Tomography With Parametric Snake Model

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive technique estimating the conductivity inside an observation domain from its peripheral measurements and owns many industrial and biomedical applications. Inclusion reconstruction is one of the key problems in EIT. However, the high-resolution inclusion reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-posedness and nonlinearity of EIT. The shape reconstruction methods focusing on recovering the shape of the inclusion is one kind of advanced methods to enhance the EIT resolution. To achieve high-performance shape reconstruction, a parametric geometric constraint boundary reconstruction (PGCBR) framework is proposed. The shape reconstruction is implemented by minimizing the energy function of the inclusion boundary represented by the parametric snake model. To accelerate the convergence, the Newton method is adopted to solve the energy minimization problem. The first- and second-order partial derivatives of the energy terms are calculated with the EIT shape sensitivity formula. A series of numerical tests evaluated the influences of the key factors, e.g., the basis function and the number of the knot and interpolating points, of PGCBR on its reconstruction performance and proved its robustness against the measurement noise. The following experimental tests, including both single- and multiphase conductivity cases, further proved the advantages of PGCBR over the nonparametric method.