Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Early detection of abnormal vascular morphologies like aneurysms in the abdominal (abdominal aortic aneurysm, AAA) or thoracic aorta (thoracic aortic a...
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Carotid plaque classification plays a critical role in the identification of vulnerable plaques, so it is crucial for early risk estimation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. Carotid ultrasound examination ...
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(数字)9781728163956
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(纸本)9781728163963
Carotid plaque classification plays a critical role in the identification of vulnerable plaques, so it is crucial for early risk estimation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. Carotid ultrasound examination with ultrasound images and reports produced by professional doctors is the most common way to assess atherosclerotic plaques in clinical practice. However, existing deep learning methods for carotid ultrasound image analysis ignore the information in the ultrasound report. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning (MTL) method named NDDR-LCS based on convolutional neural network (CNN) that leverages auxiliary information from ultrasound reports to assist the carotid plaque classification task. NDDR-LCS utilizes dense blocks as feature descriptors and organically combines three novel MTL mechanisms that are Neural Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction (NDDR), Learning Mixtures, and Cross-Stitch, to learn dependencies between ultrasound images and ultrasound reports. Based on carotid ultrasound images and their corresponding diagnostic reports, we conduct sufficient experiments to prove that NDDR-LCS outperforms state-of-the-art CNN methods for carotid plaque classification.
The fractional differential equation Lβu = f posed on a compact metric graph is considered, where β > 0 and L = κ2 − ∇(a∇) is a second-order elliptic operator equipped with certain vertex conditions and sufficie...
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This paper describes preliminary research on the relationship between the selection of characteristic values in the COMET method and the accuracy of the final ranking. Simulation studies on three test functions are pr...
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This paper describes preliminary research on the relationship between the selection of characteristic values in the COMET method and the accuracy of the final ranking. Simulation studies on three test functions are presented. These functions are references to the conducted simulations and have been taken from the literature. Thanks to their application, human error can be excluded and focus only on methodical error. The presented experiment compares two approaches in determining characteristic values. For each function, 10000 randomly selected sets are generated and based on which the similarity of the ranking calculated by the COMET method with a reference ranking is calculated. The results are interpreted by means of box diagrams. The research showed the high effectiveness of both approaches and was used to determine the next directions for future works.
The concept of hyperuniformity has been a useful tool in the study of density fluctuations at large length scales in systems ranging across the natural and mathematical sciences. One can rank a large class of hyperuni...
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The concept of hyperuniformity has been a useful tool in the study of density fluctuations at large length scales in systems ranging across the natural and mathematical sciences. One can rank a large class of hyperuniform systems by their ability to suppress long-range density fluctuations through the use of a hyperuniformity order metric Λ¯. We apply this order metric to the Barlow packings, which are the infinitely degenerate densest packings of identical rigid spheres that are distinguished by their stacking geometries and include the commonly known fcc lattice and hcp crystal. The “stealthy stacking” theorem implies that these packings are all stealthy hyperuniform, a strong type of hyperuniformity, which involves the suppression of scattering up to a wave vector K. We describe the geometry of three classes of Barlow packings, two disordered classes and small-period packings. In addition, we compute a lower bound on K for all Barlow packings. We compute Λ¯ for the aforementioned three classes of Barlow packings and find that, to a very good approximation, it is linear in the fraction of fcc-like clusters, taking values between those of least-ordered hcp and most-ordered fcc. This implies that the value of Λ¯ of all Barlow packings is primarily controlled by the local cluster geometry. These results highlight the special nature of anisotropic stacking disorder, which provides impetus for future research on the development of anisotropic order metrics and hyperuniformity properties.
Machine learning models are rapidly becoming widely used to simulate complex physicochemical phenomena with ab initio accuracy. Here, we use one such model as well as direct density functional theory (DFT) calculation...
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A queueing model with energy harvesting and multi-threshold control by service regimes is analysed. The available service regimes are characterized by the different service rate, requirements to the number of energy u...
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In this work, we study the inverse problem of recovering a potential coefficient in the subdiffusion model, which involves a Djrbashian-Caputo derivative of order α ∈ (0,1) in time, from the terminal data. We prove ...
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Quantizing any model in which a Lagrange multiplier (LM) field is used to restrict field configurations to those that satisfy the classical equations of motion, leads to at most one-loop radiative corrections. This ap...
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Multi-physics simulations are usually essential to simplify researches on complex physical phenomena. In this paper, we extend the rectangular partitioning from single-physics simulations to multi-physics simulations....
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