TY - JOUR
T1 - Machine learning-enabled resolution-lossless tomography for composite structures with a restricted sensing capability
AU - Yang, Jianwei
AU - Su, Yiyin
AU - He, Yi
AU - Zhou, Pengyu
AU - Xu, Lei
AU - Su, Zhongqing
N1 - Funding Information:
The work is supported by a General Project (No. 51875492) received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China . Z Su acknowledges the support from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council via General Research Funds (Nos. 15202820 and 15204419).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Construction of a precise ultrasound tomographic image is guaranteed only when the sensor network for signal acquisition is of adequate density. On the other hand, machine learning (ML), as represented by artificial neural network and convolutional neural network (CNN), has emerged as a prevalent data-driven technique to predictively model high-degree complexity and abstraction. A new tomographic imaging approach, facilitated by ML and based on algebraic reconstruction technique (ART), is developed to implement in-situ ultrasound tomography, and monitor the structural health of composites with a restricted sensing capability due to insufficient sensors of the sensor network. The blurry ART images, as the inputs to train a CNN with an encoder-decoder-type architecture, are segmented using convolution and max-pooling to extract defect-modulated image features. The max-unpooling boosts the resolution of ART images with transposed convolution. To validate, a carbon fibre-reinforced polymer laminate is prepared with an implanted piezoresistive sensor network, the sensing capability of which is purposedly restrained. Results demonstrate that the developed approach accurately images artificial anomaly and delamination in the laminate, with inadequate training data from the restricted sensor network for tomographic image construction, and in the meantime it minimizes the false alarm by eliminating image artifacts.
AB - Construction of a precise ultrasound tomographic image is guaranteed only when the sensor network for signal acquisition is of adequate density. On the other hand, machine learning (ML), as represented by artificial neural network and convolutional neural network (CNN), has emerged as a prevalent data-driven technique to predictively model high-degree complexity and abstraction. A new tomographic imaging approach, facilitated by ML and based on algebraic reconstruction technique (ART), is developed to implement in-situ ultrasound tomography, and monitor the structural health of composites with a restricted sensing capability due to insufficient sensors of the sensor network. The blurry ART images, as the inputs to train a CNN with an encoder-decoder-type architecture, are segmented using convolution and max-pooling to extract defect-modulated image features. The max-unpooling boosts the resolution of ART images with transposed convolution. To validate, a carbon fibre-reinforced polymer laminate is prepared with an implanted piezoresistive sensor network, the sensing capability of which is purposedly restrained. Results demonstrate that the developed approach accurately images artificial anomaly and delamination in the laminate, with inadequate training data from the restricted sensor network for tomographic image construction, and in the meantime it minimizes the false alarm by eliminating image artifacts.
KW - Algebraic Reconstruction Technique
KW - Carbon Fibre-reinforced Polymer
KW - Convolutional Neural Network
KW - Implanted Sensor Network
KW - Machine Learning
KW - Ultrasound Tomography
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ultras.2022.106801
DO - 10.1016/j.ultras.2022.106801
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35830747
AN - SCOPUS:85133872753
SN - 0041-624X
VL - 125
JO - Ultrasonics
JF - Ultrasonics
M1 - 106801
ER -