The protocol stack plays a critical role in determining the performance of Networked control System (NCS), which governs the communication activities and directly affects the communication Quality of Service (QoS). Fu...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a group of lung diseases that block airflow and cause a huge degree of human suffering. While there is no cure for COPD and the lung damage that results in this d...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a group of lung diseases that block airflow and cause a huge degree of human suffering. While there is no cure for COPD and the lung damage that results in this disease cannot be reversed, it is very important to diagnose it as early as possible. Additional to diagnosis, using a mathematical model to estimate severity of disease would be helpful for evaluation of treatment effects. This paper presents a new method for identifying COPD from three-dimensional (3-D) pulmonary X-ray CT images. The method has five main steps. First, corresponding positions of lungs in inspiration and expiration are found based on anatomical structures. Then, lung regions are segmented from the CT images by active contours. Next, the left and right lungs are separated using a sequence of morphological operations. Then, parenchyma variations in each lung are found as a relationship between inspiratory and expiratory states. Finally, a classifier is used to decide about the disease and its severity. A t-test is done to evaluate the results. Twelve patients with variable severity of COPD and twelve normal adults were included in this study. The proposed method may assist radiologists in the detection of COPD as a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system.
A passive universal image steganalysis method is proposed that is shown to be of higher detection accuracy than existing truly blind steganalysis methods including Farid's and the WAM. This is achieved by improvin...
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A passive universal image steganalysis method is proposed that is shown to be of higher detection accuracy than existing truly blind steganalysis methods including Farid's and the WAM. This is achieved by improving some weaknesses of Farid's steganalysis scheme in feature extraction, that is, instead of deriving an over-determined equation system for each sub band of the wavelet decomposition, the sub bands are divided into overlapping blocks and an over-determined equation system is constructed for each block. To guarantee the existence of finite answers, the over-determined equation systems are solved in a way different from Farid's by using Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse concept. Further improvement to the performance is achieved by adding diagonal directions and increasing the number of moments. The comparative evaluations confirm the superiority of the proposed method over prevalent blind steganalysis schemes.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a devastating disease. In this paper, we propose a novel method for scoring of air trapping in the lungs for detection and evaluation of COPD. The proposed method finds ...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a devastating disease. In this paper, we propose a novel method for scoring of air trapping in the lungs for detection and evaluation of COPD. The proposed method finds volumetric changes of the lungs from inspiration to expiration. To this end, trachea CT images at full inspiration and expiration are compared. For this comparison, the lungs parenchyma in the inspiration and expiration images are found and changes in the surface and volume of the lungs between inspiration and expiration are used to define quantitative measures (features). Using these features, the subjects are classified into two groups of normal class and COPD patients using a Bayesian classifier. In addition, t-tests are applied to evaluate discrimination powers of the features for this classification. The main advantage of the proposed method is its ability to estimate air trapping in the lungs from CT images without human intervention. The proposed method may assists radiologists in the detection of COPD as a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system. It may also assist them with the scoring of the disease (severity of air trapping in the lungs).
In this paper,a novel algorithm for color image enhancement is *** proposed method,which is based on Retinex theory and total variational framework,improves the original variational method by using a TV penalty term t...
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In this paper,a novel algorithm for color image enhancement is *** proposed method,which is based on Retinex theory and total variational framework,improves the original variational method by using a TV penalty term to force spatial smoothness on the reflectance *** split Bregman algorithm is employed to solve the proposed *** practical experiments,it is verified that our method obtains better enhancement performance and much better calculation efficiency.
This paper presents a robust tracking algorithm for infrared objects in the image sequence, which is based on particle filer. Particle filter is a powerful tool for tracking especially in non-Gaussian condition, but t...
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The sufficient and necessary conditions for Lyapunov stability of the zero equilibrium point of Lorenz system are discussed, and some brief criteria are presented for globally exponential stability, globally asymptoti...
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The sufficient and necessary conditions for Lyapunov stability of the zero equilibrium point of Lorenz system are discussed, and some brief criteria are presented for globally exponential stability, globally asymptotical stability and instability. Furthermore, the behavior of the non-zero equilibrium point of Lorenz system is also investigated, and several sufficient and necessary conditions are provided for locally exponential stability and instability. The established theorems in this paper develop and extend the existing achievements on Lyapunov stability of Lorenz system. In conclusion, by applying the obtained results, some less conservative feedback-control laws are derived to guarantee the globally exponential stability of the chaos control of Chen system, Lu¨ system, Yang-Chen system and Yu-Xia Li system.
An upper limb robotic exoskeleton of three degrees of freedom (DOF) is designed for the patients who survived stroke and the elderly who have not enough strength to move their limbs freely. Particular attention is pai...
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DNA tile self-assembly has been proved to enable programmable manipulation of biological systems as a tool of molecular computation. It is mainly based on the property that is the spontaneous self-ordering of substruc...
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To enhance the reliability of launch vehicle attitude control systems and prevent the control invalidation caused by swing engine deadlock, a control reconfiguration of fault-tolerant control is proposed. Firstly, the...
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To enhance the reliability of launch vehicle attitude control systems and prevent the control invalidation caused by swing engine deadlock, a control reconfiguration of fault-tolerant control is proposed. Firstly, the coupling identity between the channels is discussed based on the dynamic model of the vehicle. Then, under the assumption of no rolling motion, we study the swing angles reconfiguration method based on the moment balance principle, and then deduce the relationship between the swing angle of the deadlocked engines and the engines still operate well. From the rationality analysis, the safe bound of the deadlocked engine and reconfiguration conditions are proposed under several assumptions. Finally, the numerical simulation of rocket attitude control based on the discussed reconfiguration strategy is given to demonstrate that the variance of the control affect by the deadlocked engine could be rectified by other booster-engines effectively.
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