A Novel Computational Imaging Algorithm for Electrical Capacitance Tomography

High-precision images enable electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) to obtain more reliable measurement results, meaning that the reconstruction algorithm is particularly important. Some excellent numerical algorithms have successfully solved the inverse problem for ECT imaging, but their imaging quality is relatively low. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new reconstruction algorithm based on regularized extreme learning machines (RELMs). The implementation of the algorithm is mainly divided into two steps: (1) according to a large number of training samples, the RELM model can be obtained by the iterative split Bregman (ISB) algorithm, which can describe the mapping relationship between the capacitance correlation coefficient and the imaging target well, and (2) the capacitance correlation coefficient is calculated, which is then used as input to the RELM model to predict the final imaging. Both simulation and experimental results show that the RELM algorithm achieves greater improvement in imaging quality and robustness, and provides new development ideas for the ECT.