Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis
Thoracic electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides real-time, bedside imaging of pulmonary function and has demonstrated significant clinical value in guiding treatment strategies for critically ill patients. However, the practical application of EIT remains challenging due to its susceptibilit...
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| description | Thoracic electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides real-time, bedside imaging of pulmonary function and has demonstrated significant clinical value in guiding treatment strategies for critically ill patients. However, the practical application of EIT remains challenging due to its susceptibility to measurement disturbances, such as electrode contact problems and patient movement. These disturbances often manifest as spike-like noise that can severely degrade EIT image quality. To address this issue, we propose a robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA)-based approach that models EIT data as the sum of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix. The low-rank matrix captures the underlying physiological signals, while the sparse matrix contains spike-like noise components. In simulation studies considering different spike magnitudes, widths and channels, all the image correlation coefficients between RPCA-processed images and the ground truth exceeded 0.99, and the image error of the original fEIT image with spike-like noise was much larger than that after RPCA processing. In eight patient cases, RPCA significantly improved the image quality (image error: <i>p</i> < 0.001; image correlation coefficient: <i>p</i> < 0.001) and enhanced the clinical EIT-based indexes accuracy (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Therefore, we conclude that RPCA is a promising technique for reducing spike-like noise in clinical EIT data, thereby improving data quality and potentially facilitating broader clinical application of EIT. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-93880293c6ab4e9b9137c8341ce0e22d2025-08-20T02:28:18ZengMDPI AGBioengineering2306-53542025-04-0112440210.3390/bioengineering12040402Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component AnalysisMeng Dai0Xiaopeng Li1Zhanqi Zhao2Lin Yang3Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, ChinaSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, ChinaDepartment of Aerospace Medicine, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, ChinaThoracic electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides real-time, bedside imaging of pulmonary function and has demonstrated significant clinical value in guiding treatment strategies for critically ill patients. However, the practical application of EIT remains challenging due to its susceptibility to measurement disturbances, such as electrode contact problems and patient movement. These disturbances often manifest as spike-like noise that can severely degrade EIT image quality. To address this issue, we propose a robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA)-based approach that models EIT data as the sum of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix. The low-rank matrix captures the underlying physiological signals, while the sparse matrix contains spike-like noise components. In simulation studies considering different spike magnitudes, widths and channels, all the image correlation coefficients between RPCA-processed images and the ground truth exceeded 0.99, and the image error of the original fEIT image with spike-like noise was much larger than that after RPCA processing. In eight patient cases, RPCA significantly improved the image quality (image error: <i>p</i> < 0.001; image correlation coefficient: <i>p</i> < 0.001) and enhanced the clinical EIT-based indexes accuracy (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Therefore, we conclude that RPCA is a promising technique for reducing spike-like noise in clinical EIT data, thereby improving data quality and potentially facilitating broader clinical application of EIT.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/12/4/402electrical impedance tomographyspike-like noiserobust principal component analysis |
| spellingShingle | Meng Dai Xiaopeng Li Zhanqi Zhao Lin Yang Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis Bioengineering electrical impedance tomography spike-like noise robust principal component analysis |
| title | Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis |
| title_full | Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis |
| title_short | Reduction of Spike-like Noise in Clinical Practice for Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Robust Principal Component Analysis |
| title_sort | reduction of spike like noise in clinical practice for thoracic electrical impedance tomography using robust principal component analysis |
| topic | electrical impedance tomography spike-like noise robust principal component analysis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/12/4/402 |
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