AIM: To evaluate the ability of the time-signal intensity curve (TIC) of the pancreas obtained from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for differentiation of focal pancreatic masses, especially...AIM: To evaluate the ability of the time-signal intensity curve (TIC) of the pancreas obtained from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for differentiation of focal pancreatic masses, especially pancreatic carcinoma coexisting with chronic pancreatitis and tumor-forming pancreatitis. METHODS: Forty-eight consecutive patients who underwent surgery for a focal pancreatic mass, including pancreatic ductal carcinoma (n = 33), tumor-forming pancreatitis (n = 8), and islet cell tumor (n = 7), were reviewed. Five pancreatic carcinomas coexisted with longstanding chronic pancreatitis. The pancreatic TICs were obtained from the pancreatic mass and the pancreatic parenchyma both proximal and distal to the mass lesion in each patient, prior to surgery, and were classified into 4 types according to the time to a peak: 25 s and 1, 2, and 3 min after the bolus injection of contrast material, namely, type-Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, and Ⅳ, respectively, and were then compared to the corresponding histological pancreatic conditions. RESULTS: Pancreatic carcinomas demonstrated type-Ⅲ (n = 13) or Ⅳ (n = 20) TIC. Tumor-forming pancreatitis showed type-Ⅱ (n = 5) or Ⅲ (n = 3) TIC. All islet cell tumors revealed type-Ⅰ. The type-Ⅳ TIC was only recognized in pancreatic carcinoma, and the TIC of carcinoma always depicted the slowest rise to a peak among the 3 pancreatic TICs measured in each patient, even in patients with chronic pancreatitis.CONCLUSION: Pancreatic TIC from dynamic MRI provides reliable information for distinguishing pancreatic carcinoma from other pancreatic masses, and may enable us to avoid unnecessary pancreatic surgery and delays in making a correct diagnosis of pancreatic carcinoma, especially, in patients with longstanding chronic pancreatitis.展开更多
Compared to OFDM systems with cyclic prefi x, fi lterbank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation(FBMC/OQAM) system is considered as an alternative technology for next generation wireless communicatio...Compared to OFDM systems with cyclic prefi x, fi lterbank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation(FBMC/OQAM) system is considered as an alternative technology for next generation wireless communication systems. However, FBMC systems suffer from intrinsic imaginary interference caused by the real-fi eld orthogonality destruction when passing through complex-valued fading channels. By analyzing the transmultiplexer's response of FBMC/OQAM systems, in this paper, a simple conjugated transmission scheme is proposed for FBMC/OQAM systems. Following the specific conjugation design, the intrinsic imaginary interference including the intrinsic inter-symbol and the inter-carrier interference can be eliminated at the receiver side through linear signal processing operation. Meanwhile, the proposed conjugated transmission scheme is able to obtain extra linear combination diversity gains for improving the systematic performance of FBMC/OQAM. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is more efficient than conventional methods, especially in practical application scenarios with large Doppler spread caused by high-speed movement.展开更多
Conjugate gradient optimization algorithms depend on the search directions with different choices for the parameters in the search directions. In this note, by combining the nice numerical performance of PR and HS met...Conjugate gradient optimization algorithms depend on the search directions with different choices for the parameters in the search directions. In this note, by combining the nice numerical performance of PR and HS methods with the global convergence property of the class of conjugate gradient methods presented by HU and STOREY(1991), a class of new restarting conjugate gradient methods is presented. Global convergences of the new method with two kinds of common line searches, are proved. Firstly, it is shown that, using reverse modulus of continuity function and forcing function, the new method for solving unconstrained optimization can work for a continously dif ferentiable function with Curry-Altman's step size rule and a bounded level set. Secondly, by using comparing technique, some general convergence properties of the new method with other kind of step size rule are established. Numerical experiments show that the new method is efficient by comparing with FR conjugate gradient method.展开更多
This paper puts forward a two-parameter family of nonlinear conjugate gradient(CG)method without line search for solving unconstrained optimization problem.The main feature of this method is that it does not rely on a...This paper puts forward a two-parameter family of nonlinear conjugate gradient(CG)method without line search for solving unconstrained optimization problem.The main feature of this method is that it does not rely on any line search and only requires a simple step size formula to always generate a sufficient descent direction.Under certain assumptions,the proposed method is proved to possess global convergence.Finally,our method is compared with other potential methods.A large number of numerical experiments show that our method is more competitive and effective.展开更多
In this paper, a new region of βk with respect to ;βk^PRP is given. With two Armijo-type line searches, the authors investigate the global convergence properties of the dependent PRP conjugate gradient methods, whic...In this paper, a new region of βk with respect to ;βk^PRP is given. With two Armijo-type line searches, the authors investigate the global convergence properties of the dependent PRP conjugate gradient methods, which extend the global convergence results of PRP conjugate gradient method proved by Grippo and Lucidi （1997） and Dai and Yuan （2002）.展开更多
Conjugate gradient methods have played a special role in solving large scale nonlinear problems. Recently, the author and Dai proposed an efficient nonlinear conjugate gradient method called CGOPT, through seeking the...Conjugate gradient methods have played a special role in solving large scale nonlinear problems. Recently, the author and Dai proposed an efficient nonlinear conjugate gradient method called CGOPT, through seeking the conjugate gradient direction closest to the direction of the scaled memoryless BFGS method. In this paper, we make use of two types of modified secant equations to improve CGOPT method. Under some assumptions, the improved methods are showed to be globally convergent. Numerical results are also reported.展开更多
文摘AIM: To evaluate the ability of the time-signal intensity curve (TIC) of the pancreas obtained from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for differentiation of focal pancreatic masses, especially pancreatic carcinoma coexisting with chronic pancreatitis and tumor-forming pancreatitis. METHODS: Forty-eight consecutive patients who underwent surgery for a focal pancreatic mass, including pancreatic ductal carcinoma (n = 33), tumor-forming pancreatitis (n = 8), and islet cell tumor (n = 7), were reviewed. Five pancreatic carcinomas coexisted with longstanding chronic pancreatitis. The pancreatic TICs were obtained from the pancreatic mass and the pancreatic parenchyma both proximal and distal to the mass lesion in each patient, prior to surgery, and were classified into 4 types according to the time to a peak: 25 s and 1, 2, and 3 min after the bolus injection of contrast material, namely, type-Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, and Ⅳ, respectively, and were then compared to the corresponding histological pancreatic conditions. RESULTS: Pancreatic carcinomas demonstrated type-Ⅲ (n = 13) or Ⅳ (n = 20) TIC. Tumor-forming pancreatitis showed type-Ⅱ (n = 5) or Ⅲ (n = 3) TIC. All islet cell tumors revealed type-Ⅰ. The type-Ⅳ TIC was only recognized in pancreatic carcinoma, and the TIC of carcinoma always depicted the slowest rise to a peak among the 3 pancreatic TICs measured in each patient, even in patients with chronic pancreatitis.CONCLUSION: Pancreatic TIC from dynamic MRI provides reliable information for distinguishing pancreatic carcinoma from other pancreatic masses, and may enable us to avoid unnecessary pancreatic surgery and delays in making a correct diagnosis of pancreatic carcinoma, especially, in patients with longstanding chronic pancreatitis.
基金supported by the MOST Program of International S&T Cooperation(Grant No.2016YFE0123200)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61471100/61101090/61571082)+1 种基金Science and Technology on Electronic Information Control Laboratory(Grant No.6142105040103)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.ZYGX2015J012/ZYGX2014Z005)
文摘Compared to OFDM systems with cyclic prefi x, fi lterbank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation(FBMC/OQAM) system is considered as an alternative technology for next generation wireless communication systems. However, FBMC systems suffer from intrinsic imaginary interference caused by the real-fi eld orthogonality destruction when passing through complex-valued fading channels. By analyzing the transmultiplexer's response of FBMC/OQAM systems, in this paper, a simple conjugated transmission scheme is proposed for FBMC/OQAM systems. Following the specific conjugation design, the intrinsic imaginary interference including the intrinsic inter-symbol and the inter-carrier interference can be eliminated at the receiver side through linear signal processing operation. Meanwhile, the proposed conjugated transmission scheme is able to obtain extra linear combination diversity gains for improving the systematic performance of FBMC/OQAM. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is more efficient than conventional methods, especially in practical application scenarios with large Doppler spread caused by high-speed movement.
文摘Conjugate gradient optimization algorithms depend on the search directions with different choices for the parameters in the search directions. In this note, by combining the nice numerical performance of PR and HS methods with the global convergence property of the class of conjugate gradient methods presented by HU and STOREY(1991), a class of new restarting conjugate gradient methods is presented. Global convergences of the new method with two kinds of common line searches, are proved. Firstly, it is shown that, using reverse modulus of continuity function and forcing function, the new method for solving unconstrained optimization can work for a continously dif ferentiable function with Curry-Altman's step size rule and a bounded level set. Secondly, by using comparing technique, some general convergence properties of the new method with other kind of step size rule are established. Numerical experiments show that the new method is efficient by comparing with FR conjugate gradient method.
基金Supported by 2023 Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics,General Scientific Research for Universities directly under Inner Mon‐golia,China (NCYWT23026)2024 High-quality Research Achievements Cultivation Fund Project of Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics,China (GZCG2479)。
文摘This paper puts forward a two-parameter family of nonlinear conjugate gradient(CG)method without line search for solving unconstrained optimization problem.The main feature of this method is that it does not rely on any line search and only requires a simple step size formula to always generate a sufficient descent direction.Under certain assumptions,the proposed method is proved to possess global convergence.Finally,our method is compared with other potential methods.A large number of numerical experiments show that our method is more competitive and effective.
基金This work is supported by National Science Foundation of China(10571106)the Foundation of Qufu Normal University.
文摘In this paper, a new region of βk with respect to ;βk^PRP is given. With two Armijo-type line searches, the authors investigate the global convergence properties of the dependent PRP conjugate gradient methods, which extend the global convergence results of PRP conjugate gradient method proved by Grippo and Lucidi （1997） and Dai and Yuan （2002）.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.10831006 and 10971017)
文摘Conjugate gradient methods have played a special role in solving large scale nonlinear problems. Recently, the author and Dai proposed an efficient nonlinear conjugate gradient method called CGOPT, through seeking the conjugate gradient direction closest to the direction of the scaled memoryless BFGS method. In this paper, we make use of two types of modified secant equations to improve CGOPT method. Under some assumptions, the improved methods are showed to be globally convergent. Numerical results are also reported.
