Diffusion tensor interpolation profile control using non-uniform motion on a Riemannian geodesic

Tensor interpolation is a key step in the processing algorithms of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), such as registration and tractography. The diffusion tensor (DT) in biological tissues is assumed to be positive definite. However, the tensor interpolations in most clinical applications have used a Euclidian scheme that does not take this assumption into account. Several Rie-mannian schemes were developed to overcome this limitation. Although each of the Riemannian schemes uses different metrics, they all result in a ‘fixed’ interpolation profile that cannot adapt to a variety of diffusion patterns in biological tissues. In this paper, we propose a DT interpolation scheme to control the interpolation profile, and explore its feasibility in clinical applications. The profile controllability comes from the non-uniform motion of interpolation on the Riemannian geodesic. The interpolation experiment with medical DTI data shows that the profile control improves the interpolation quality by assessing the reconstruction errors with the determinant error, Euclidean norm, and Riemannian norm.     

Transmission pricing and recovery of investment costs in the deregulated power system based on optimal circuit prices

Transmission pricing has become a major issue in the discussions about the deregulated electricity markets.Consequently,open access to the transmission system is one of the basic topics to allow competition among participants in the energy market.Transmission costs have an important impact on relative competition among participants in the energy market as well as on short-and long-term economic efficiencies of the whole electricity industry,although they represent only close to 10% of the energy market price.This paper deals with the design and tests of a transmission pricing method based on the optimal circuit prices derived from the economically adapted network(EAN).Prices derived from the EAN have the advantage of being in tune with the maximum revenue allowed to the owner of transmission assets and simplifying the optimal allocation of transmission costs among participants.Beginning from the conceptual design,the proposed method is tested on a three-bus network and on the IEEE 24-bus reliability test system.     

A note on circle packing

The problem of packing circles into a domain of prescribed topology is considered. The circles need not have equal radii. The Collins-Stephenson algorithm computes such a circle packing. This algorithm is parallelized in two different ways and its performance is reported for a triangular, planar domain test case. The implementation uses the highly parallel graphics processing unit (GPU) on commodity hardware. The speedups so achieved are discussed based on a number of experiments.     

重症监护病房紧急状况预警算法

重症监护病房中的病人身体状况通常很不稳定,常出现各种需要医护人员介入治疗的紧急状况。由于医疗资源有限,医护人员可能无法及时发现并处理这些紧急状况,给病人的存活率带来严重的负面影响。如果可以预测这些紧急状况的发生,并及时通知相关医护人员,将大大提高病人的存活率。常见重症监护病房紧急状况包括突然死亡、败血症、肺部感染、急性低血压、以及器官衰竭等。紧急状况预警建模主要采用病人的长时间生命体征监测数据,预测在一定时间之后发生某种紧急状况的可能性。预警模型所采用的监测数据分为静态数据、事件数据和时间序列数据等三类。静态数据具有容易采集、但预测准确性偏低的特点。事件数据或时间序列数据、以及多种类型数据的混合数据对于紧急状况预警模型的预测性能的提高有重要作用,将会获得更广泛的应用。     

多特征自适应融合的粒子滤波跟踪算法

针对跟踪过程中目标形态不断变化或部分遮挡导致鲁棒性差的问题,提出一种基于多特征自适应融合的粒子滤波跟踪算法.该算法从视觉特征集中选取了描述能力强的2种特征,并将其按照与目标模型的多尺度相似度进行线性融合;为了减小跟踪漂移,通过计算当前目标模型与初始目标模型的多尺度相似度自适应地更新目标模型.大量仿真实验结果表明,文中算法可以鲁棒地跟踪到部分遮挡和形态变化的运动目标.     

车身产品设计中的多层次尺寸链构建

尺寸偏差是影响汽车车身装配性能的一个主要因素,为了控制尺寸偏差,必须构建尺寸链模型以分析尺寸之间的相互复杂关系.以汽车车身设计为研究对象,分析了汽车车身装配的多层次、多等级特性;应用车身设计中的基准点系统和功能尺寸系统建立一种多级尺寸链模型,包括整车级、总成级、分总成级和零件级尺寸链.实例结构表明,所建立的多级装配尺寸链模型能使车身装配中的尺寸关系层次清晰化,并能对尺寸关系进行优化,使极为烦琐复杂的车身尺寸分析、偏差设计能有条不紊地逐步进行,为车身设计与制造改善找到了一条切实可行的路径.     

异类传感器实时信息融合的STMHM算法

异类传感器实时信息融合由于两类设备的数据率不同和数据误差的限制,一直未得到有效解决,提出一种空时二维多假设模型(STMHM)算法来解决该问题。设计的融合数据模型,将异类传感器的测量数据映射在二维直角坐标系下;按照新的融合数据模型分别构建两类传感器的目标量测空间和融合空间;设计量测空间时间初始化方法和目标实体空间的滤波算法;通过仿真验证表明:该算法能够实现异类传感器的信息融合,初次融合成功的确认时间在3～5个主动传感器扫描周期。     

基于两电极体系的水质检测分析平台设计

为实现对水质的多参数检测,设计了一个基于两电极体系的水质检测分析平台。该检测平台通过最小化极化电流的思想,采用辅助电极面积远大于工作电极的电极参数,设计了基于两电极体系的集成电极和软硬件系统,摈弃了传统三电极体系的参比电极,同时克服了传统三电极体系容易污染样品的缺点,能实现电化学工作站的诸多功能。本研究在该检测平台上开展了水样的电导率(EC)、pH和重金属浓度的检测研究,获得了较好的结果,可用于实验室及工业现场的水质监测。     

无线传感器网络中d-Hop 2-连通容错支配集的分布式构造算法

无线传感器网络随节点移动组成自我维持的自组织系统,采用连通支配集的虚拟骨干技术可使平面网络系统层次化而简化节点路由、管理和维护。但大规模无线传感器网络的连通支配集节点数目依然庞大,d-hop连通支配集可以大大减小支配集节点数目。另外,由于存在节点失效、链路断裂等无线特性,虚拟骨干网需要具备一定的容错性。在单位圆盘图网络模型中为构建精简且具有容错能力的虚拟骨干网,提出d-hop 2-连通支配集的分布式构造算法,先构造d-hop独立支配集后再连通形成d-hop 2-连通支配集。并从理论和仿真上对算法的复杂度、近似比和算法性能作了进一步探讨和验证。     

MEMS高量程加速度传感器的动态特性分析

利用霍普金森杆激光干涉冲击试验台对实验室研发的MEMS高量程压阻式加速度传感器进行动态校准;采用两种不同解算方法对实验数据将进行分析处理,求解出该传感器的幅频特性,绘制了对数幅频特性曲线;通过对比两种算法的结果知道,镜像映射法优于FFT算法,其算法简单有效,能直接辨识出系统模型参数和模型阶次。