During an epidemic, the spatial, temporal and demographical patterns of disease transmission are determined by multiple factors. Besides the physiological properties of pathogenes and hosts, the social contacts of hos...
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(纸本)9781479943012
During an epidemic, the spatial, temporal and demographical patterns of disease transmission are determined by multiple factors. Besides the physiological properties of pathogenes and hosts, the social contacts of host population, which characterize individuals' reciprocal exposures of infection in view of demographical structures and various social activities, are also pivotal to understand and further predict the prevalence of infectious diseases. The means of measuring social contacts will dominate the extent how precisely we can forecast the dynamics of infections in the real world. Most current works focus their efforts on modeling the spatial patterns of static social contacts. In this work, we address the problem on how to characterize and measure dynamical social contacts during an epidemic from a novel perspective. We propose an epidemic-model-based tensor deconvolution framework to address this issue, in which the spatiotemporal patterns of social contacts are represented by the factors of tensors, which can be discovered by a tensor deconvolution procedure with an integration of epidemic models from rich types of data, mainly including heterogeneous outbreak surveillance, social-demographic census and physiological data from medical reports. Taking SIR model as a case study, the efficacy of the proposed method is theoretically analyzed and empirically validated through a set of rigorous experiments on both synthetic and real-world data.
With the development of high-throughput microarray technology, a large number of microarray data has been obtained by tens of thousands of simulation experiments on gene expression. However, due to the high cost, gene...
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The replication of the non-structure data from one data center to another is an urgent task in HBase. The paper studies the priority growth probability of the priority replication queue and proposed a dynamic priority...
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Stencils are finite-difference algorithms for solving large-scale and high-dimension partial differential equations. Due to the data dependences among the iterative statements in Stencils, traditional Stencil computat...
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Stencils are finite-difference algorithms for solving large-scale and high-dimension partial differential equations. Due to the data dependences among the iterative statements in Stencils, traditional Stencil computations are be executed serially, rather than in parallel. It's challenging to design an effective and scalable Stencil parallelized method. To address the issue of 3D data space computing, we present a serial execution model based on multi-layers symmetric Stencil method and time skewing techniques. Within this model, the iteration space is divided to multiple tiles based on time skewing, where the executive process is ordered by the sequence of tiles, and the nodes in each individual tile can be swept repeatedly to improve the data locality. In addition, we propose a novel 3D iterative space alternate tiling Stencil parallel method, which subdivides the iteration space along high dimension, and changes the execution sequence of tiles to reduce the data dependency and communication cost, where the partial order of tiles is still guaranteed. Experimental results demonstrate our proposed alternative tiling parallel method achieves better parallel efficiency and scalability compared with the domain-decomposition methods.
The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of search engines, which has become an indispensable part of everyday life. However, people are no longer satisfied with accessing to ordinary information, and they ...
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Simple Tabular Reduction algorithms (STR) work well to establish Generalized Arc Consistency (GAC) on positive table constraints. However, the existing STR algorithms are useless for negative table constraints. In thi...
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A superpixels based interactive image segmentation algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly the initial segmentation is obtained by MeanShift algorithm, and then a graph is built using pre-segmented regions as nod...
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(纸本)9781629932101
A superpixels based interactive image segmentation algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly the initial segmentation is obtained by MeanShift algorithm, and then a graph is built using pre-segmented regions as nodes, finally min-cut/maxflow algorithm is implemented for global solution. In this process, each region is represented by a color histogram and Bhattacharyya coefficient is chosen to calculate the similarity between any two regions. Extensive experiments are performed and the results show that the presented algorithm obtains much more satisfactory segmentation results with less user interaction and less comsuming time than MSRM algorithm.
In this paper, an adaptive image thresholding algorithm is proposed for thresholding images with uneven illumination. Firstly, a Gaussian scale space, which is produced from the convolution of a two-dimensional Gaussi...
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(纸本)9781629932101
In this paper, an adaptive image thresholding algorithm is proposed for thresholding images with uneven illumination. Firstly, a Gaussian scale space, which is produced from the convolution of a two-dimensional Gaussian function with an input image, is used to estimate the background image. Followed by background subtraction, the objective image can be easily obtained to eliminate interference of uneven illumination. Thirdly, to highlight those darker objects, gamma correction is employed to enhance the objective image. Finally, the thresholding result is extracted easily using the global valley-emphasis Otsu method. The experimental results show that the introduced method yields satisfactory visual quality.
vegetation continuous The scale-location specific control on distribution was investigated through wavelet transforms approaches in subtropical mountain-hill region, Fujian, China. The Normalized Difference Vegetatio...
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vegetation continuous The scale-location specific control on distribution was investigated through wavelet transforms approaches in subtropical mountain-hill region, Fujian, China. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was calculated as an indicator of vegetation greenness using Chinese Environmental Disaster Reduction Satellite images along latitudinal and longitudinal transects. Four scales of variations were identified from the local wavelet spectrum of NDVI, with much stronger wavelet variances observed at larger scales. The characteristic scale of vegetation distribution within mountainous and hilly regions in Southeast China was around 20 km. Significantly strong wavelet coherency was generally examined in regions with very diverse topography, typically characterized as small mountains and hills fractured by rivers and residents. The continuous wavelet based approaches provided valuable insight on the hierarchical structure and its corresponding characteristic scales of ecosystems, which might be applied in defining proper levels in multilevel models and optimal bandwidths in Geographically Weighted Regression.
The increase of microarray experiments brings a fresh challenge to analyze microarray data across datasets. Several methods have been developed and implemented. But the current tools were either complicated software w...
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