Andrea Borsic

| Research Interests

NOTICE:

As of September 2012 I am no longer working at Dartmotuh College, and I am pursuing the development of a business in the field of engineering / computer science in healthcare.

I will be unbale therefore to support perspective master, PhD students, and postrocs.

For a while I will keep this page updated, posting new publications, as I am still active on topics related to my "core interests" at Dartmouth - methods for imaging the electrical properties of tissues.

Research Interests

Medical Imaging

Discrete Inverse Problems

Electrical Impedance Tomography

Magnetic Resonace Methods for Imaging Electrical Properties of Tissues

Scientific Computing & Visualization

High Performance Computing on GPUs

Numerical Methods for Electromagnetism

Biomedical Instrumentation

Embedded Systems

Teaching

In the Spring Term 2011 I have been teaching a new graduate course ENGG-199 "Medical Image Visualization - Analysis and GPU Accelerated Computing", the course covers aspects of visualization/analysis and processing of 3D medical datasets. Students have prototyped solutions based onVTK (www.vtk.org) ITK (www.itk.org) the Python language (taught during the course). The course has also covered aspects of GPU computing.

Course Flyer [PDF]

Current Research Projects

• Combined ultrasound and EIT imaging
• Electrical impedance imaging for breast cancer screening
• Electrical impedance imaging for prostate cancer screening

Research Supervision

• I have been supervising Elia Attardo, Postdoctoral Fellow, on topics relative to GPU acceleration of tomographic reconstruction, implementation on GPUs of Algebraic Multigrid Solvers, and FEM modeling in prosate and breast imaging with electrical impedance tomography. With Elia we are working together also on forward and inverse methods for microwave imaging of the breast.
• I have supervised Haider Syed, MS student, on topics relative to image fusion between Electrical Impedance Tomography and Ultrasound, for an application related to prosatate cancer imaging.
• I have have supervised Jeffrey Forsyth, MS student, on topics relative to methods for optically capturing the shape of the breast and producing automatically patient specific FEM models - to be used in imaging techniques for breast cancer screening.

Professional Activities

• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, PIER (Progress In Electromagnetic Research - MIT Press), IOP Physiological Measurement, IOP Physics in Medicine and Biology, IOP Measurement Science and Technology, Royal Society, JACRS (International Journal Computed Assisted Radiology & Surgery - Springer), Insight (British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing), International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (Hindawi), Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (Taylor & Francis)

Education

• BS + MS Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) 1998
• PhD Electronic Engineering & Applied Maths, Oxford Brookes University (U.K.) 2002

Doctoral Thesis

"Regularization Methods For Imaging From Electric Measurements", Oxford Brookes University, October 2002. [PDF]

Published Book Chapters

W. R. B. Lionheart, N. Polydorides and A. Borsic, "Image reconstruction in electrical impedance tomography", in D. S. Holder Techniques in Electrical Impedance Tomography, ISBN: 0750309520, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK, December 2004. [Link to Amazon Books]

Invited Presentations

• Workshop - Celebrating 100 Years of Electrical Imaging: Key Note: "Imaging the Electrical Properties of the Breast for Cancer Detection Purposes".
• Conference - IPMS 2012 - Inverse Problems: Modeling & Simulation: "Combining Electrical Impedance and Ultrasound Imaging for Estimating the Electrical Properties of the Prostate", Antalya, Turkey, May 2012.
• Seminar - MIT Earth Resources Laboratory: "Electrical Resistivity Tomography: Topics Related to Inverse Problems and Applications in Geophysics", Cambridge, MA, October 2011.
• Workshop - MRII 2010 - MR Impedance Imaging: "Imaging Electrical Properties of the Breast - Current Experiences at Dartmouth", Seoul, South Korea, December 2010.
• Conference - IPMS 2010 - Inverse Problems: Modeling & Simulation: "Electrical Imaging and Breast Cancer Detection", Antalya, Turkey, May 2010.
• Seminar - Center for Computational Science - Boston University, "Computational Aspects in Imaging Electric Properties of Tissues for Cancer Screening", Boston, MA, May 2010.
• Seminar - Polytechnic of Turin - Doctoral School, "Imaging Electrical Impedance of Tissues: Technique, Challenges, and Application in the Field of Breast Cancer Detection", Turin, Italy, July 2009.
• Seminar - Exxon Mobil Research Center, "Multi-Core and GPU Computing for Inverse Problems", Annandale, NJ, May 2009.
• Conference - University of Connecticut, UConn/IBM Workshop on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering, "Soft-Field Tomography and High Performance Computing: Needs, Current Approaches and Future Directions at Dartmouth", Storrs, CT, December 2008.
• Conference - WINMEC, "An RFID-Enabled Parking Payment System", Los Angeles, CA, May 2004.
• Seminar - University of Manchester Institute of Technology, "Electrode Models for Electrical Impedance Tomography", Manchester, UK, November 1999.

Papers - In Preparation & Submitted

• Y. Mamatjan, A. Borsic, D. Gursoy, A. Adler: Electrical Impedance Tomography Reconstriction With L1 Data and Image Norms. Submitted to IEEE Transations on Biomedical Engineering. [PDF Draft]
• Y. Wan, A. Borsic, J. Heaney, J. Seigne, A. Schned, M. Baker, S. Wason, A. Hartov, R. J. Halter: Transrectal Electrical Impedance Tomography of the Prostate: Spatially Co-registered Pathological Findings for Prostate Cancer Detection. Submitted to Medical Physics. [PDF Draft]

Journal Papers - Published

• E. A. Attardo, A. Borsic, G. Vecchi, P. M. Meaney: Whole-System Electromagnetic Modeling for Microwave Tomography. To Appear on IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. [PDF Draft]
• A. Borsic, E. A. Attardo, R. J. Halter - Multi-GPU Jacobian Accelerated Computing for Soft Field Tomography. Physiological Measurement, 33, 1703-1715, 2012. [PDF Draft]. The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, A. Adler: A Primal Dual - Interior Point Framework for Using the L1-Norm or the L2-Norm on the Data and Regularization Terms of Inverse Problems. Inverse Problems, 28, 095011, 2012. [PDF Draft]. The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• H. Syed, A. Borsic, A. Hartov, R. J. Halter - Anatomically Accurate Hard Priors for Transrectal Electrical Impedance Tomography (TREIT) of the Prostate. Physiological Measurement, 33, 719-738, 2012. [PDF Draft]. The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Boyle, A. Borsic, A. Adler - Addressing the Computational Cost of Large EIT Solutions. Physiological Measurement, 33, 787-800, 2012. [PDF Draft]. The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• J. Forsyth, A. Borsic, R. Halter, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Optical Breast Shape Capture and Finite Element Mesh Generation for Electrical Impedance Tomography. Physiological Measurement, 32, 797-809, 2011. [PDF Draft]. The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• E. Demidenko, A. Borsic, Y. Wan, R. J. Halter, A. Hartov: Statistical Estimation of EIT Electrode Contact Impedance Using Magic Toeplitz Matrix. IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, 58, 2194-2201, 2011. [PDF Draft]. The draft copy is copyright of IEEE [IEEE Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, R. Halter, Y. Wan, A. Hartov, K.D. Paulsen: Electrical Impedance Tomography Reconstruction for Three Dimensional Imaging of the Prostate, Physiological Measurement, 31, S1-16, 2010. [PDF Draft] The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• Y. Wan, R. Halter, A. Borsic, P. Manwaring, A. Hartov, K. Paulsen: Sensitivity Study of an Ultrasound Coupled Transrectal Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Prostate Imaging, Physiological Measurement, 31, S17-29, 2010. [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, B. M. Graham, A. Adler, W. R. B. Lionheart: In Vivo Impedance Imaging With Total Variation Regularization, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 29, 1, 44-54, 2010. [PDF Draft] The draft copy is copyright of IEEE [IEEE Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Hartov, K. Paulsen, S. Ji, K. Fontaine, M. L. Furon, A. Borsic, D. Roberts: Adaptive spatial calibration of a 3D ultrasound system. Medical Physics 37, 5, 2121-30, 2010. [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, R. J. Halter, Y. Wan, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Sensitivity Study and Optimization of a 3D Electric Impedance Tomography Prostate Probe. IOP Physiological Measurement, 30, S1-S18, 2009. [PDF Draft] The draft copy is copyright of IOP [Link to IOP Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Adler, J. Arnold, R. Bayford, A. Borsic et al, GREIT: A Unified Approach to 2D Linear EIT Reconstruction of Lung Images. IOP Physiological Measurement, 30, S35-55, 2009. [Link to Journal Paper]
• R. J Halter, T. Zhou, P. M. Meaney, A. Hartov, R. J. Barth, Jr., K. M. Rosenkranz, W. A. Wells, C. A. Kogel, A. Borsic, E. J. Rizzo, K. D. Paulsen: Correlation of In Vivo and Ex Vivo Tissue Dielectric Properties to Validate Electromagnetic Breast Imaging: Initial Clinical Experience, IOP Physiological Measurement, 30, S121-136, 2009. [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, C. Comina, S. Foti, R. Lancellotta and G. Musso: Imaging Heterogeneities in Sand Samples with Electrical Impedance Tomography: Laboratory Results. Geotechnique, 55, 539-647, 2005. [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, W. Lionheart, C. McLeod: Generation of Anisotropic Regularization Filters for Electrical Impedance Tomography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 21, 579-587, 2002. [PDF Draft] The draft copy is copyright of IEEE [IEEE Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper]
• A. Borsic, C. McLeod, W. Lionheart, N. Kerrouche: Realistic 2D Human Thorax Modeling for Electrical Impedance Tomography. IOP Physiological Measurement, 22, 77-83, 2001. [Link to Journal Paper]

Conference Papers

• E.A. Attardo, A. Borsic: GPU Acceleration of Algebraic Multigrid for Low Frequency Finite Element Methods, APS (Antennas & Propagation Symposium), Chicago, July 2012 [PDF].
• E. A. Attardo, A. Borsic, R. J. Halter: A Multi-GPU Acceleration for 3D Imaging of the Prostate, International Conference on on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), Turin, 2011 [PDF Draft] The draft copy is copyright of IEEE [IEEE Copyright Notice] [Link to Journal Paper].
• E. A. Attardo, A. Borsic, P. M. Meaney, G. Vecchi: Finite Element Modeling for Microwave Tomography. APS (Antennas & Propagation Symposium), Spokane, July 2011 [PDF].
• A. Borsic, A. E. Attardo, P. M. Meaney, G. Vecchi: FEM Based Image Reconstruction For Microwave Imaging of the Breast, URSI (International Union of Radio Science) / APS Symposium, Spokane, [Abstarct of the Presenation].
• A. Borsic, H. Syed, R. J. Hlater, A. Hatrov: Using Ultrasound Information in EIT Reconstruction of the Electrical Properties of the Prostate, Proceedings 12th International Conference in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2011), Bath, UK, [PDF].
• J. Forsyth, A. Borsic, R. J. Halter, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Optical Shape Capture and Meshing of the sBreast. Proceedings 12th International Conference in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2011), Bath, UK, [PDF].
• A. E. Attardo, A. Borsic, R. J. Halter: Jacobian Optimization for 3D Electric Impedance Tomography via GPU acceleration. Proceedings 12th International Conference in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2011), Bath, UK, [PDF].
• A. Borsic, R. Bayford: Forward Solving in Electrical Impedance Tomography with Wavelet Based Preconditioners and Implementation Results on Multi-Core and GPU Platforms. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 224, 1, 012053, 2010. [Link to Open Access Journal Paper]
• A. Tizzard, A. Borsic, R. J. Halter, R. Bayford: Generation and Performance of Patient-Specific Forward Models for Breast Imaging with EIT. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 224, 1, 012034, 2010. [Link to Open Access Journal Paper]
• P. K. Manwaring, R. J. Halter, A. Borsic, A. Hartov: A Modified Electrode Configuration for Brain EIT. Conference Series, 224, 1, 012062, 2010. [Link to Open Access Journal Paper]
• N. Polydorides, A. Borsic: Electrical Impedance Tomography for Geophysical Applications. Proceedings of SAGEEP 2010 - Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems, Keystone, Colorado, 2010. [PDF]
• A. Borsic, R. Halter, Y. Wan, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Sensitivity Study and Optimization of a 3D Electric Impedance Tomography Prostate Probe. Proceedings of WC2009, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, 2009. [PDF]
• A. Borsic, A. Adler: A Primal Dual - Interior Point Framework for EIT Reconstruction and Regularization with 1-Norm and 2-Norm. Proceedings 10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009). [PDF]
• A. Borsic, M. Soleimani, O. Dorn, R. Halter, A Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Breast Imaging with Electrical Impedance Tomography: A Comparison of Traditional Quadratic regularization, Total Variation regularization and Level Set methods on in vivo data. Proceedings 10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009). [PDF]
• A. Borsic, K. D. Paulsen: Safety Study for Induced Current Magnetic Resonance - Electrical Impedance Tomography in Breast Imaging. Proceedings 10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009). [PDF]
• A. Borsic, R. Halter, Y. Wan, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Sensitivity Study and Optimization of a 3D Electric Impedance Tomography Prostate Probe. Proceedings 10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009). [PDF]
• A. Adler, J. Arnold, R. Bayford, A. Borsic, et al: Validation and Parameter Selection for the GREIT Reconstruction Algorithm. Proceedings 10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009). [PDF]
• A. Borsic, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen, P. Manwaring: 3D Electric Impedance Tomography Reconstruction on Multi-Core Computing Platforms. Proceedings IEEE EMBC'08, Vancouver, August 2008.
• P. Manwaring, R. Halter, Y. Wan, A. Borsic, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Arbitrary geometry Patient Interfaces for Breast Cancer Detection and Monitoring with Electrical Impedance Tomography. Proceedings IEEE EMBC'08, Vancouver, August 2008.
• A. Borsic, A. Hartov, K. D. Paulsen: Optimization of 3D Impedance Tomography Reconstruction on Multi–Core Computing Platforms, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2008), Hanover NH, 2008. [PDF]
• A. Adler, A. Borsic, N. Polydorides, W. Lionheart, Simple FEM Aren't as Good As We Thought: Experiences Developing EIDORS v3.3. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2008), Hanover NH, 2008. [PDF]
• A. Adler, J. Arnold, R. Bayford, A. Borsic, et. al: GREIT: Towards a Consensus EIT Algorithm For Lung Images. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2008), Hanover NH, 2008. [PDF]
• S. Ji, A. Hartov, K. Fontaine, A. Borsic, D. Roberts, K. D. Paulsen: Coregistered Volumetric True 3D Ultrasonography in Image–Guided Surgery. Proceedings SPIE conference on Medical Imaging 2008, Orlando, 2008.
• C. Comina, S. Foti, R. Lancellotta, G. Musso and A. Borsic: Imaging Heterogeneities and Diffusion in Sand Samples. Proceedings of IACMAG2005, Turin, June 2005.
• A. Borsic, C. McLeod, W. Lionheart: Total Variation Regularisation in Electrical Impedance Tomography reconstruction. Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Industrial Process Tomography, Hannover, August 2001.
• A. Borsic, W. Lionheart, C. McLeod: Introduction of A-Priori Information Into Electrical Impedance Tomography Regularisation. Proceedings of the 3rd EPSRC Meeting on Biomedical Applications of EIT, London, April 2001.
• A. Borsic, C. McLeod, W. Lionheart, N. Kerrouche: Realistic 2D Human Thorax Modelling for EIT. Proceedings of the 3rd EPSRC Meeting on Biomedical Applications of EIT, London, April 2000.