Multi-frequency electrical impedance tomography reconstruction with multi-branch attention image prior

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Fang, Hao and Liu, Zhe and Feng, Yi and Qiu, Zhen and Bagnaninchi, Pierre and Yang, Yunjie (2024) Multi-frequency electrical impedance tomography reconstruction with multi-branch attention image prior. Other. arXiv, Ithaca, New York. (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.10794)

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Abstract

Multi-frequency Electrical Impedance Tomography (mfEIT) is a promising biomedical imaging technique that estimates tissue conductivities across different frequencies. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms, which rely on supervised learning and Multiple Measurement Vectors (MMV), require extensive training data, making them time-consuming, costly, and less practical for widespread applications. Moreover, the dependency on training data in supervised MMV methods can introduce erroneous conductivity contrasts across frequencies, posing significant concerns in biomedical applications. To address these challenges, we propose a novel unsupervised learning approach based on Multi-Branch Attention Image Prior (MAIP) for mfEIT reconstruction. Our method employs a carefully designed Multi-Branch Attention Network (MBA-Net) to represent multiple frequency-dependent conductivity images and simultaneously reconstructs mfEIT images by iteratively updating its parameters. By leveraging the implicit regularization capability of the MBA-Net, our algorithm can capture significant inter- and intra-frequency correlations, enabling robust mfEIT reconstruction without the need for training data. Through simulation and real-world experiments, our approach demonstrates performance comparable to, or better than, SOTA algorithms while exhibiting superior generalization capability. These results suggest that the MAIP-based method can be used to improve the reliability and applicability of mfEIT in various settings.

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Fang, Hao, Liu, Zhe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5526-8819, Feng, Yi, Qiu, Zhen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-7855, Bagnaninchi, Pierre and Yang, Yunjie;
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