Electronic Auction Scheme Based on Smart Contract and IPFS

Sealed-bid auctions are a vital transaction tool in the e-commerce field. Traditional centralized auction schemes typically result in severe threats to data integrity,information transparency,and traceability owing to their excessive reliance on third parties,and blockchain-based auction schemes generally suffer from high storage costs and are deficient in functional and architectural design. To solve these problems,this study presents a sealed-bid auction scheme that removes the third-party bas...     

Paving the Way for High-Performance UVB-LEDs Through Substrate-Dominated Strain-Modulation

AlGaN-based ultraviolet-B light-emitting diodes (UVB-LEDs) exhibit great potential in phototherapy, vitamin D3 synthesis promotion, plant growth regulation, and so on. However, subjected to the excess compressive strain induced by the large lattice mismatch between multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and AlN, UVB-LEDs that simultaneously satisfy the requirements of high light output power (LOP), low working voltage, and excellent stability are rarely reported. Here, a substrate-dominated strain-modulation strategy is proposed. By precisely manipulating the strain in AlN grown on nano-patterned sapphire substrate (NPSS) to a slightly tensile one, the compressive strain in the following Al_0.55Ga_0.45N underlayer and Al_0.28Ga_0.72N/Al_0.45Ga_0.55N MQWs is successfully suppressed. As a result, an outstanding UVB-LED with a peak wavelength at 303.6 nm is achieved. The 20 × 20 mil² UVB-LED chip shows a wall-plug efficiency (WPE) of 3.27% under a forward current of 20 mA and a high LOP of 57.2 mW with an extremely low voltage of 5.87 V under a forward current of 800 mA. It is more exciting that the LOP degradation is as low as 17% after 1000 h operation under a forward current density of 75 A cm⁻², showing excellent stability. The here-developed UVB-LED, with a high LOP and excellent reliability, will definitely promote the applications of AlGaN-based UVB-LEDs.     

Ultra-Wideband Electrostrictive Mechanical Antenna

Mechanical antennas based on piezoelectric materials can effectively reduce the size of long wave antennas down to 1/1000 of the wavelength (from km scale to mm level). However, the narrow bandwidth and weak field intensity seriously restrict its practical applications in transmission distance and channel capacity. Here, a mechanical antenna-based electrostrictive effect of relaxor ferroelectric ceramic (PMN-PT) is proposed to improve radiation capacity and achieve ultra-wideband characteristics (10 kHz–1 MHz). Due to the ultra-high dielectric constant at working temperature and the relationship between the strain and applied field intensity, the proposed antenna gets rid of the dependence on the poled materials and exhibits excellent communication properties beyond traditional mechanical antennas, which are experimentally demonstrated by a practical wireless communication system. Only using a single proposed mechanical antenna with 8 mm diameter and 3 mm thickness, the effective communication with a transmission distance of 200 m can be realized. This design offers a promising way of constructing mechanical antennas for long-wave communication.     

Tuning the Intermolecular Electrostatic Interaction toward High-Efficiency and Low-Cost Organic Solar Cells

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have achieved much progress with rapidly increasing power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). It should be noted that the top-performance OSCs are generally consisted of active materials with complex chemical structures, resulting in high costs. Here, combining the material design and morphology control, high-efficiency OSCs are fabricated by a low-cost donor: acceptor blend. A completely non-fused electron acceptor named Tz is designed and synthesized via introducing thiazole units on both sides of a bithiophene core, which shows an outstanding PCE of 13.3% with a typical polythiophene donor. More importantly, optimization guidelines are presented to get excellent morphology for low-cost donor:acceptor systems. Three polythiophenes are selected, poly(3-hexylthiophene) and its two derivatives with electron-withdrawing substitutions (PDCBT and PDCBT-2F), as donors to fabricate the cell devices. The computational and experimental data reveal that decreasing the electrostatic interaction between polythiophene and Tz is the key to getting a suppressed miscibility and thus a high phase purity. This study provides insight into the molecular design and donor:acceptor matching requirements for high-efficiency and low-cost OSCs.     

Functional Materials for Memristor-Based Reservoir Computing: Dynamics and Applications

The booming development of artificial intelligence (AI) requires faster physical processing units as well as more efficient algorithms. Recently, reservoir computing (RC) has emerged as an alternative brain-inspired framework for fast learning with low training cost, since only the weights associated with the output layers should be trained. Physical RC becomes one of the leading paradigms for computation using high-dimensional, nonlinear, dynamic substrates. Among them, memristor appears to be a simple, adaptable, and efficient framework for constructing physical RC since they exhibit nonlinear features and memory behavior, while memristor-implemented artificial neural networks display increasing popularity towards neuromorphic computing. In this review, the memristor-implemented RC systems from the following aspects: architectures, materials, and applications are summarized. It starts with an introduction to the RC structures that can be simulated with memristor blocks. Specific interest then focuses on the dynamic memory behaviors of memristors based on various material systems, optimizing the understanding of the relationship between the relaxation behaviors and materials, which provides guidance and references for building RC systems coped with on-demand application scenarios. Furthermore, recent advances in the application of memristor-based physical RC systems are surveyed. In the end, the further prospects of memristor-implemented RC system in a material view are envisaged.     

A Framework of Deep Learning and Selection-Based Breast Cancer Detection from Histopathology Images

Breast cancer (BC) is a most spreading and deadly cancerous malady which is mostly diagnosed in middle-aged women worldwide and effecting beyond a half-million people every year. The BC positive newly diagnosed cases in 2018 reached 2.1 million around the world with a death rate of 11.6% of total cases. Early diagnosis and detection of breast cancer disease with proper treatment may reduce the number of deaths. The gold standard for BC detection is biopsy analysis which needs an expert for correct diagnosis. Manual diagnosis of BC is a complex and challenging task. This work proposed a deep learning-based (DL) solution for the early detection of this deadly disease from histopathology images. To evaluate the robustness of the proposed method a large publically available breast histopathology image database containing a total of 277524 histopathology images is utilized. The proposed automatic diagnosis of BC detection and classification mainly involves three steps. Initially, a DL model is proposed for feature extraction. Secondly, the extracted feature vector (FV) is passed to the proposed novel feature selection (FS) framework for the best FS. Finally, for the classification of BC into invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) and normal class different machine learning (ML) algorithms are used. Experimental outcomes of the proposed methodology achieved the highest accuracy of 92.7% which shows that the proposed technique can successfully be implemented for BC detection to aid the pathologists in the early and accurate diagnosis of BC.     

基于多模态图像融合的早期蕈样肉芽肿识别

早期蕈样肉芽肿（Mycosis fungoid, MF）可表现为红斑鳞屑性皮损,很难从银屑病及慢性湿疹等良性炎症性皮肤病中鉴别出来。本文提出了一种基于多模态图像融合的早期蕈样肉芽肿识别方法。该方法基于皮肤镜图像和临床图像,采用ResNet18网络提取单模态图像的特征;设计跨模态的注意力模块,实现两种模态图像的特征融合;并且设计自注意力模块提取融合特征中的关键信息,改善信息冗余,从而提高蕈样肉芽肿智能识别的准确度。实验结果表明,本文所提出的智能诊断模型优于对比算法。将本文模型应用于皮肤科医生的实际临床诊断,通过实验组医生和对照组医生平均诊断准确率的变化证实了本文模型能够有效提升临床诊断水平。     

CentroidNet：轻量快速的乳腺癌Ki67细胞核中心点检测模型

目的 Ki67分数是乳腺癌预后评估的重要指标,计算该分数的关键步骤是检测阴性与阳性癌细胞核。人工检测面临疲劳与主观差异的问题。卷积神经网络有望实现高质量、自动化的细胞核检测,然而需要病理专家为其标注细胞核。为了减轻标注的工作量,不少研究者提出以中心点标注训练卷积神经网络。然而这些方法采用过于复杂的卷积神经网络和后处理流程,未能充分提高易用性和效率、发挥卷积神经网络的质量。对此,提出CentroidNet模型,旨在提高中心点检测的质量、效率和易用性。方法 CentroidNet模型在图像上放置均匀排布的锚点,为每个锚点预测一个候选点,一部分候选点通过基于阈值的筛选策略成为预测点。本文提出最近锚点匹配策略用于生成训练标签,既保证了端到端推理,又规避了其他一对一标签匹配算法所具有的标签抖动问题。本文建议锚点间距应尽可能接近训练集答案点间最短距离的第一百分位数,并指出这样的锚点间距能够在前景标签数、坐标回归难度与效率之间取得良好的平衡。本文在设计卷积神经网络的结构时,没有采纳广为使用的U-Net或特征金字塔（feature pyramid network, FPN）中的多级上采样与旁路连接,反...     

融合通道位置注意力机制和并行空洞卷积的人脸年龄合成

目的 人脸年龄合成旨在合成指定年龄人脸图像的同时保持高可信度的人脸,是计算机视觉领域的热门研究方向之一。然而目前主流人脸年龄合成模型过于关注纹理信息,忽视了与人脸相关的多尺度特征,此外网络存在对身份信息筛选不佳的问题。针对以上问题,提出一种融合通道位置注意力机制和并行空洞卷积的人脸年龄合成网络（generative adversarial network（GAN）composed of the parallel dilated convolution and channel-coordinate attention mechanism,PDA-GAN）。方法 PDA-GAN基于生成对抗网络提出了并行三通道空洞卷积残差块和通道—位置注意力机制。并行三通道空洞卷积残差块将3种膨胀系数空洞卷积提取的不同尺度人脸特征融合,提升了特征尺度上的多样性和总量上的丰富度;通道—位置注意力机制通过对人脸特征的长度、宽度和深度显著性计算,定位图像中与年龄高度相关的通道和空间位置区域,增强了网络对通道和空间位置上敏感特征的表达能力,解决了特征冗余问题。结果 实验在Flickr高清人脸数据集（Flickr-faces-high-quality,FFHQ）上训练,在名人人脸属性高清数据集（large-scale celebfaces attributes dataset-high quality,Celeba-HQ）上测试,将本文提出的PDA-GAN与最新的3种人脸年龄图像合成网络进行定性和定量比较,以验证本文方法的有效性。实验结果表明,PDA-GAN显著提升了人脸年龄合成的身份置信度和年龄估计准确度,具有良好的身份信息保留和年龄操控能力。结论 本文方法能够合成具有较高真实度和准确性的目标年龄人脸图像。     

Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking for General Networked Games With Bounded Disturbances

This paper is concerned with anti-disturbance Nash equilibrium seeking for games with partial information. First, reduced-order disturbance observer-based algorithms are proposed to achieve Nash equilibrium seeking for games with first-order and second-order players, respectively. In the developed algorithms, the observed disturbance values are included in control signals to eliminate the influence of disturbances, based on which a gradient-like optimization method is implemented for each player. Second, a signum function based distributed algorithm is proposed to attenuate disturbances for games with second-order integrator-type players. To be more specific, a signum function is involved in the proposed seeking strategy to dominate disturbances, based on which the feedback of the velocity-like states and the gradients of the functions associated with players achieves stabilization of system dynamics and optimization of players’ objective functions. Through Lyapunov stability analysis, it is proven that the players’ actions can approach a small region around the Nash equilibrium by utilizing disturbance observer-based strategies with appropriate control gains. Moreover, exponential (asymptotic) convergence can be achieved when the signum function based control strategy (with an adaptive control gain) is employed. The performance of the proposed algorithms is tested by utilizing an integrated simulation platform of virtual robot experimentation platform (V-REP) and MATLAB.