Bladder volume estimation from electrical impedance tomography

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2013:2013:6441-4. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6611029.

Abstract

Ubiquitous knowledge of bladder volume is of great interest to patients whose perception of bladder volume is impaired. A promising approach to provide frequent bladder volume estimates to the patient are automatic and noninvasive measurements by electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Previous studies have shown a linear correlation of abdominal electrical impedance and bladder volume. In this article, we present two methods to extract a volume estimate from EIT measurements. One method is based on the global impedance from a reconstructed image, the second method is based on a singular value decomposition of the raw voltage measurement vector. A performance evaluation in presence of noise is performed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Simulation
  • Electric Conductivity
  • Electric Impedance*
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Paraplegia / physiopathology
  • Paraplegia / rehabilitation
  • Rotation
  • Software
  • Tomography / methods*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Urinary Bladder / diagnostic imaging*
  • Urinary Bladder / pathology*