• 1. The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Technology & Equipment for Urban Rail Transit of Zhejiang Province, Institute of Precision Machinery and Smart Structure, College of Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, P. R. China;
  • 2. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan;
LI Jianping, Email: lijp@zjnu.cn; GAO Zengfeng, Email: zengfenggao@gmail.com
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-radiation, non-invasive visual diagnostic technique. In order to improve the imaging resolution and the removing artifacts capability of the reconstruction algorithms for electrical impedance imaging in human-chest models, the HMANN algorithm was proposed using the Hadamard product to optimize multilayer artificial neural networks (MANN). The reconstructed images of the HMANN algorithm were compared with those of the generalized vector sampled pattern matching (GVSPM) algorithm, truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) algorithm, backpropagation (BP) neural network algorithm, and traditional MANN algorithm. The simulation results showed that the correlation coefficient of the reconstructed images obtained by the HMANN algorithm was increased by 17.30% in the circular cross-section models compared with the MANN algorithm. It was increased by 13.98% in the lung cross-section models. In the lung cross-section models, some of the correlation coefficients obtained by the HMANN algorithm would decrease. Nevertheless, the HMANN algorithm retained the image information of the MANN algorithm in all models, and the HMANN algorithm had fewer artifacts in the reconstructed images. The distinguishability between the objects and the background was better compared with the traditional MANN algorithm. The algorithm could improve the correlation coefficient of the reconstructed images, and effectively remove the artifacts, which provides a new direction to effectively improve the quality of the reconstructed images for EIT.

Citation: SONG Zhenzhong, LI Jianping, WEN Jianming, WAN Nen, MA Jijie, ZHANG Yu, HU Yili, GAO Zengfeng. Research of electrical impedance tomography based on multilayer artificial neural network optimized by Hadamard product for human-chest models. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2024, 41(3): 439-446, 454. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.202305047 Copy

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