PRZYSPIESZANIE PROCESU REKONSTRUKCJI OBRAZU W ELEKTRYCZNEJ TOMOGRAFII POJEMNOŚCIOWEJ 3D Z WYKORZYSTANIEM HETEROGENICZNEGO SYSTEMU MULTI-GPU

Electrical capacitance tomography is an innovative method for visualization of industrial processes. One of its main advantages is it’s high time resolution that allows to the usage of ECT in systems with high volatility. In recent years there has been significant development of electrical capacitance tomography 3D, which however, has significantly reduced industrial it’s applications due to the complicated process of image reconstruction. The authors propose the use of multi-node, multi-GPU system to accelerate the process of image reconstruction in ECT 3D.Elektryczna tomografia pojemnościowa jest innowacyjną metodą wizualizacji procesów przemysłowych. Jedną z jej głównych zalet jest duża rozdzielczość czasowa pozwalająca na zastosowanie ECT w instalacjach o dużej zmienności. W ostatnich latach nastąpił znaczący rozwój elektrycznej tomografii pojemnościowej 3D, która jednakże ma znacznie ograniczone zastosowanie przemysłowe ze względu na skomplikowany proces rekonstrukcji obrazu. Autorzy artykułu proponują zastosowanie wielowęzłowego systemu Multi-GPU do przyspieszenia procesu rekonstrukcji obrazu w ECT 3D

Radial Basis Functions: Biomedical Applications and Parallelization

Radial basis function (RBF) is a real-valued function whose values depend only on the distances between an interpolation point and a set of user-specified points called centers. RBF interpolation is one of the primary methods to reconstruct functions from multi-dimensional scattered data. Its abilities to generalize arbitrary space dimensions and to provide spectral accuracy have made it particularly popular in different application areas, including but not limited to: finding numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs), image processing, computer vision and graphics, deep learning and neural networks, etc. The present thesis discusses three applications of RBF interpolation in biomedical engineering areas: (1) Calcium dynamics modeling, in which we numerically solve a set of PDEs by using meshless numerical methods and RBF-based interpolation techniques; (2) Image restoration and transformation, where an image is restored from its triangular mesh representation or transformed under translation, rotation, and scaling, etc. from its original form; (3) Porous structure design, in which the RBF interpolation used to reconstruct a 3D volume containing porous structures from a set of regularly or randomly placed points inside a user-provided surface shape. All these three applications have been investigated and their effectiveness has been supported with numerous experimental results. In particular, we innovatively utilize anisotropic distance metrics to define the distance in RBF interpolation and apply them to the aforementioned second and third applications, which show significant improvement in preserving image features or capturing connected porous structures over the isotropic distance-based RBF method. Beside the algorithm designs and their applications in biomedical areas, we also explore several common parallelization techniques (including OpenMP and CUDA-based GPU programming) to accelerate the performance of the present algorithms. In particular, we analyze how parallel programming can help RBF interpolation to speed up the meshless PDE solver as well as image processing. While RBF has been widely used in various science and engineering fields, the current thesis is expected to trigger some more interest from computational scientists or students into this fast-growing area and specifically apply these techniques to biomedical problems such as the ones investigated in the present work

KONCEPCJA PARAMETRYCZNO-SEMANTYCZNEJ OTWARTEJ PLATFORMY INTELIGENTNYCH URZĄDZEŃ SENSOROWYCH

The parametric and semantic model of open platform of intelligent devices and sensor technologies based on tomography in cyber-physical self-monitoring system contains: new techniques of conducting measurements and construction of novel intelligent measurement devices, system's structure along with communication interface, unique algorithms for data optimization and analysis, algorithms for image reconstruction and technological processes monitoring, cyber-physical system's prototype.Parametryczno-semantyczny model otwartej platformy inteligentnych urządzeń sensorowych został oparty na technologiach tomograficznych. W samo-monitorującym się systemie cyber-fizycznym zastosowano nowe techniki pomiarowe i konstrukcje inteligentnych urządzeń pomiarowych. Proponowane rozwiązanie prototypu systemu cyber-fizycznego składa się z interfejsu komunikacyjnego, unikalnych algorytmów do optymalizacji i analizy danych oraz systemu monitoringu procesów logistyczno-technologicznych

DICOM for EIT

With EIT starting to be used in routine clinical practice [1], it important that the clinically relevant information is portable between hospital data management systems. DICOM formats are widely used clinically and cover many imaging modalities, though not specifically EIT. We describe how existing DICOM specifications, can be repurposed as an interim solution, and basis from which a consensus EIT DICOM ‘Supplement’ (an extension to the standard) can be writte

Estimation of thorax shape for forward modelling in lungs EIT

The thorax models for pre-term babies are developed based on the CT scans from new-borns and their effect on image reconstruction is evaluated in comparison with other available models

Rapid generation of subject-specific thorax forward models

For real-time monitoring of lung function using accurate patient geometry, shape information needs to be acquired and a forward model generated rapidly. This paper shows that warping a cylindrical model to an acquired shape results in meshes of acceptable mesh quality, in terms of stretch and aspect ratio

Nanoparticle electrical impedance tomography

We have developed a new approach to imaging with electrical impedance tomography (EIT) using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to enhance impedance changes at targeted tissue sites. This is achieved using radio frequency (RF) to heat nanoparticles while applying EIT imaging. The initial results using 5-nm citrate coated AuNPs show that heating can enhance the impedance in a solution containing AuNPs due to the application of an RF field at 2.60 GHz

Torso shape detection to improve lung monitoring

Two methodologies are proposed to detect the patient-specific boundary of the chest, aiming to produce a more accurate forward model for EIT analysis. Thus, a passive resistive and an inertial prototypes were prepared to characterize and reconstruct the shape of multiple phantoms. Preliminary results show how the passive device generates a minimum scatter between the reconstructed image and the actual shap