Majorization–Minimization Total Variation Solution Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography

Eman Alruwaili and Jing Li
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Eman Alruwaili: Department of Mathematics, Northern Border University, Arar 73222, Saudi Arabia
Jing Li: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: Inverse problems arise in many areas of science and engineering, such as geophysics, biology, and medical imaging. One of the main imaging modalities that have seen a huge increase in recent years is the noninvasive, nonionizing, and radiation-free imaging technique of electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Other advantages of such a technique are the low cost and ubiquitousness. An imaging technique is used to recover the internal conductivity of a body using measurements from electrodes from the body’s surface. The standard procedure is to obtain measurements by placing electrodes in the body and measuring conductivity inside the object. A current with low frequency is applied on the electrodes below a threshold, rendering the technique harmless for the body, especially when applied to living organisms. As with many inverse problems, EIT suffers from ill-posedness, i.e., the reconstruction of internal conductivity is a severely ill-posed inverse problem and typically yields a poor-quality solution. Moreover, the desired solution has step changes in the electrical properties that are typically challenging to be reconstructed by traditional smoothing regularization methods. To counter this difficulty, one solves a regularized problem that is better conditioned than the original problem by imposing constraints on the regularization term. The main contribution of this work is to develop a general ℓ p regularized method with total variation to solve the nonlinear EIT problem through a iteratively reweighted majorization–minimization strategy combined with the Gauss–Newton approach. The main idea is to majorize the linearized EIT problem at each iteration and minimize through a quadratic tangent majorant. Simulated numerical examples from complete electrode model illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.

Keywords: EIT; regularization; Tikhonov; quadratic tangent majorant; Gauss–Newton; majorization–minmization; sparsity; total variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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