Amir MoradifamAssociate ProfessorMathematics Dept amirm@ucr.edu(951) 827-3030
Imaging Electrical Conductivities From Their Induced Current and Network Tomography for Random Walks on Graphs
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AWARD NUMBER
009102-002
FUND NUMBER
33358
STATUS
Active
AWARD TYPE
3-Grant
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AWARD EXECUTION DATE
7/13/2017
BEGIN DATE
7/15/2017
END DATE
6/30/2020
AWARD AMOUNT
$132,249
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Sponsor Information
SPONSOR AWARD NUMBER
SPONSOR
SPONSOR TYPE
FUNCTION
Organized Research
PROGRAM NAME
Proposal Information
PROPOSAL NUMBER
17050668
PROPOSAL TYPE
New
ACTIVITY TYPE
Basic Research
PI Information
PI
Moradifam, Amir
PI TITLE
Other
PI DEPTARTMENT
Mathematics
PI COLLEGE/SCHOOL
College of Nat & Agr Sciences
CO PIs
Project Information
ABSTRACT
This project focuses on two applications that utilize methods from the field of inverse problems. The first concerns the mathematical analysis of the next generation medical imaging methods and contributes to the theoretical foundation of current density based imaging methods. Successful results will allow images with significantly higher quality and accuracy than possible with current medical imaging modalities. Such highly accurate imaging methods are crucial for early detection, diagnoses, and treatment of cancer, and provide alternatives for risky and invasive procedures and reduce the cost of treatment. The methods also apply to the analysis of electrical networks with a prescribed current, and will include the development of random walk models on graphs to describe transitions in conductivity. Random walks on graphs arise in many areas of science and the proposed research has direct impact in the analysis of computer and social networks, cryptography, epidemiology, statistical physics, economics, and biology.
The first part of the project focuses on the inverse problem of recovering the electrical conductivity inside a body from the knowledge of the induced current density vector field in the interior and Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. This hybrid inverse problem combines high resolution of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and high contrast of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) to provide images with high resolutions and high contrast. It is closely related to the weighted least gradient problems and 1-Laplacian equations with variable coefficients, and more study is needed on the existence and uniqueness of solutions of such problems. The second part includes the problem of determining the conductivity matrix of an electrical network from the induced current along the edges. It can be generalized to the inverse problem of determining transition probabilities of random walk models on graphs from the knowledge of the expected net number of times the random walker passes along the edges. The results from these fundamental mathematical questions will contribute to various seemingly unrelated specific real world applications and can be extended to many other areas. This project brings to bear a variety of mathematical tools from partial differential equations, calculus of variations, theory of minimal surfaces, geometric measure theory, and numerical analysis.(Abstract from NSF)
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