High-Order Regularized Regression in Electrical Impedance Tomography

Abstract

We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral transform, which maps changes in the electrical properties of a domain to their respective variations in boundary data. Using perturbation theory the transform is approximated to yield a high-order misfit function which is then used to derive a regularized inverse problem. In particular, we consider the nonlinear problem to second-order accuracy; hence our approximation method improves upon the local linearization of the forward mapping. The inverse problem is approached using Newton's iterative algorithm, and results from simulated experiments are presented. With a moderate increase in computational complexity, the method yields superior results compared to those of regularized linear regression and can be implemented to address the nonlinear inverse problem.