Enhanced Temporal Correlation for Universal Lesion Detection

Universal lesion detection(ULD)methods for computed tomography(CT)images play a vital role in the modern clinical medicine and intelligent automation.It is well known that single 2D CT slices lack spatial-temporal characteristics and contextual information compared to 3D CT blocks.However,3D CT blocks necessitate significantly higher hardware resources during the learning phase.Therefore,efficiently exploiting temporal correlation and spatial-temporal features of 2D CT slices is crucial for ULD tasks.In this paper,we propose a ULD network with the enhanced temporal correlation for this purpose,named TCE-Net.The designed TCE module is applied to enrich the discriminate feature representation of multiple sequential CT slices.Besides,we employ multi-scale feature maps to facilitate the localization and detection of lesions in various sizes.Extensive experiments are conducted on the DeepLesion benchmark demonstrate that thismethod achieves 66.84%and 78.18%for FS@0.5 and FS@1.0,respectively,outperforming compared state-of-the-art methods.

Spatiotemporal Prediction of Urban Traffics Based on Deep GNN

Traffic prediction already plays a significant role in applications like traffic planning and urban management,but it is still difficult to capture the highly non-linear and complicated spatiotemporal correlations of traffic data.As well as to fulfil both long-termand short-termprediction objectives,a better representation of the temporal dependency and global spatial correlation of traffic data is needed.In order to do this,the Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network(S-GNN)is proposed in this research as amethod for traffic prediction.The S-GNN simultaneously accepts various traffic data as inputs and investigates the non-linear correlations between the variables.In terms of modelling,the road network is initially represented as a spatiotemporal directed graph,with the features of the samples at the time step being captured by a convolution module.In order to assign varying attention weights to various adjacent area nodes of the target node,the adjacent areas information of nodes in the road network is then aggregated using a graph network.The data is output using a fully connected layer at the end.The findings show that S-GNN can improve short-and long-term traffic prediction accuracy to a greater extent;in comparison to the control model,the RMSE of S-GNN is reduced by about 0.571 to 9.288 and the MAE(Mean Absolute Error)by about 0.314 to 7.678.The experimental results on two real datasets,Pe MSD7(M)and PEMS-BAY,also support this claim.

Employing temporal channel correlation in user selection for MIMO broadcast systems

Taking the time varying nature of wireless channels into account, two user selection schemes with lower complexity are developed for multiple-input multiple-output broadcast （MIMO BC）systems. According to the relationship between coherence time and Doppler frequency, an information frame is divided into several segments. At the beginning of each segment, the user selection is carded out with the greedy selection algorithm. In the simplified user selection algorithms employing the temporal correlation （SUSTC）, the selection results are applied for all the remaining slots in each segment. But in the improved simplified user selection algorithms employing the temporal correlation（ISUSTC）, at the remaining slots, users are kept with favorable channel conditions selected at the previous slot, and other users are updated from the candidate pool to communicate simultaneously. Simulations show that compared with the greedy user selection method, the proposed algorithms can reduce the selection complexity with a little sum capacity loss.

Quantitative assessment of the spatio-temporal correlations of seismic events induced by longwall coal mining

Rock failure process as a natural response to mining activities is associated with seismic events, which can pose a potential hazard to mine operators, equipment and infrastructures. Mining-induced seismicity has been found to be internally correlated in both time and space domains as a result of rock fracturing during progressive mining activities. Understanding the spatio-temporal(ST) correlation of mininginduced seismic events is an essential step to use seismic data for further analysis, such as rockburst prediction and caving assessment. However, there are no established methods to perform this critical task. Input parameters used for the prediction of seismic hazards, such as the time window of past data and effective prediction distance, are determined based on site-specific experience without statistical or physical reasons to support. Therefore, the accuracy of current seismic prediction methods is largely constrained, which can only be addressed by quantitively assessing the ST correlations of mininginduced seismicity. In this research, the ST correlation of seismic event energy collected from a study mine is quantitatively analysed using various statistical methods, including autocorrelation function(ACF), semivariogram and Moran’s I analysis. In addition, based on the integrated ST correlation assessment, seismic events are further classified into seven clusters, so as to assess the correlations within individual clusters. The correlation of seismic events is found to be quantitatively assessable, and their correlations may vary throughout the mineral extraction process.

Effect of electron correlation on high-order harmonic generation in helium model atom

High-order harmonic generation （HHG） of a helium model atom in an intense laser field has been numerically investigated. The influence of electron correlation on HHG is analysed by changing the strength between the electrons. The numerical results show that as the electron interaction strength becomes small, the first ionization energy increases rapidly, which results in the decrease in ionization. So the conversion efficiency of the high harmonic lying in the plateau decreases greatly, while the cutoff harmonic order in the harmonic spectrum increases.

Effects of internal waves on signal temporal correlation length in the South China Sea

We simulated the temporal correlation of sound transmission using a two-dimensional advective frozen-ocean model with temperature data from a temperature sensor array on a propagation path in the South China Sea （SCS） Experiment 2009, and investigated the relationships of temporal correlation length, source-receiver range, and maximal sound speed fluctuation mainly caused by the solitary internal waves. We found that the temporal correlation length is -h2-power dependent on source-receiver range and -0.9-power dependent on maximal sound speed fluctuation. The empirical relationship is deduced from one-day environmental measurements in a limited area, needing more works and verification in the future with more acoustic data. But the relationship is useful in many applications in the area of SCS Experiment 2009.

High-order ghost imaging with N-colour thermal light

High-order ghost imaging with thermal light consisting of N different frequencies is investigated. The high-order intensity correlation and intrinsic correlation functions are derived for such N-colour light. It is found that they are similar in form to those for the monochromatic case, thus most of the conclusions we obtained previously for monochromatic Nth-order ghost imaging are still applicable. However, we find that the visibility of the N-colour ghost image depends strongly on the wavelength used to illuminate the object, and increases as this wavelength increases when the test arm is fixed. On the contrary, changes of wavelength in the reference arms do not lead to any change of the visibility.

Temporal patterns of dengue epidemics:The case of recent outbreaks in Kaohsiung

Objective:To investigate whether major dengue outbreaks in the last two decades in Kaohsiung follow a precise temporal pattern.Methods:Government daily lab-confirmed dengue case data from three major dengue outbreaks occurring during the last two decades in Kaohsiung in2002,2014 and 2015,is utilized to compute the corresponding weekly cumulative percentage of total case numbers.We divide each of the three time series data into two periods to examine the corresponding weekly cumulative percentages of case numbers for each period.Pearson’s correlation coefficient was calculated to compare quantitatively the similarity between the temporal patterns of these three years.Results:Three cutoff points produce the most interesting comparisons and the most different outcomes.Pearson’s correlation coefficient indicates quantitative discrepancies in the similarity between temporal patterns of the three years when using different cutoff points.Conclusions:Temporal patterns in 2002 and 2014 are comparatively more similar in early stage.The 2015 outbreak started late in the year,but ended more like the outbreak in 2014,both with record-breaking number of cases.The retrospective analysis shows that the temporal dynamics of dengue outbreaks in Kaohsiung can strongly vary from one year to another,making it difficult to identify any common predictor.

Exploiting Correlations of Energy and Information:A New Paradigm of Energy Harvesting Communications

For deployment flexibility and device lifetime prolonging,energy harvesting communications have drawn much attention recently,which however,encounter energy domain randomness in addition to the channel state randomness and traffic load randomness.The three-dimensional randomness makes the resource allocation problem extremely difficult.To resolve this,we exploit the inherent correlations of energy arrival and information.The correlations include self correlations of energy profiles and mutual correlations between energy and information in both time and spatial domains.The correlations are explicitly explained followed by a state-of-art survey.Candidate mechanisms exploiting the correlations for the ease of resource allocation are introduced along with some recent progress.Finally,a case study is presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithm.

The spatial-temporal evolution of coherent structures in log law region of turbulent boundary layer

The spatial-temporal evolution of coherent structures （CS） is significant for turbulence control and drag re- duction. Among the CS, low and high speed streak structures show typical burst phenomena. The analysis was based on a time series of three-dimensional and three-component （3D-3C） velocity fields of the flat plate turbulent boundary layer （TBL） measured by a Tomographic and Time-resolved PIV （Tomo TRPIV） system. Using multi-resolution wavelet transform and conditional sampling method, we extracted the intrinsic topologies and found that the streak structures appear in bar-like patterns. Furthermore, we seized locations and velocity information of transient CS, and then calculated the propagation velocity of CS based on spatial-temporal cross-correlation scanning. This laid a foundation for further studies on relevant dynamics properties.

Signal Analysis of the Climate: Correlation, Delay and Feedback

One of the ingredients of anthropogenic global warming is the existence of a large correlation between carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and the temperature. In this work we analyze the original time-series data that led to the new wave of climate research and test the two hypotheses that might explain this correlation, namely the (more commonly accepted and well-known) greenhouse effect (GHE) and the less-known Henry’s Law (HL). This is done by using the correlation and the temporal features of the data. Our conclusion is that of the two hypotheses the greenhouse effect is less likely, whereas the Henry’s Law hypothesis can easily explain all effects. First the proportionality constant in the correlation is correct for HL and is about two orders of magnitude wrong for GHE. Moreover, GHE cannot readily explain the concurring methane signals observed. On the temporal scale, we see that GHE has difficulty in the apparent negative time lag between cause and effect, whereas in HL this is of correct sign and magnitude, since it is outgasing of gases from oceans. Introducing feedback into the GHE model can overcome some of these problems, but it introduces highly instable and chaotic behavior in the system, something that is not observed. The HL model does not need feedback.

Two new approaches for image registration based onspatial-temporal relationship

How to improve the probability of registration and precision of localization is a hard problem, which is desiderated to solve. The two basic approaches (normalized cross-correlation and phase correlation) for image registration are analysed, two improved approaches based on spatial-temporal relationship are presented. This method adds the correlation matrix according to the displacements in x- cirection and y- directions, and the registration pose is searched in the added matrix. The method overcomes the shortcoming that the probability of registration decreasing with area increasing owing to geometric distortion, improves the probability and the robustness of registration.

Detecting remotely triggered temporal changes around the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault

Detecting temporal changes in fault zone properties at seismogenic depth have been a long-sought goal in the seismological community for many decades. Recent studies based on waveform analysis of repeating earthquakes have found clear temporal changes in the shallow crust and around active fault zones associated with the occurrences of large nearby and teleseismic earthquakes. However, repeating earthquakes only occur in certain locations and their occurrence times cannot be controlled, which may result in inadequate sampling of the interested regions or time periods. Recent developments in passive imaging via auto- and cross-correlation of ambient seismic wavefields （e.g., seismic noise, earthquake coda waves） provide an ideal source for continuous monitoring of temporal changes around active fault zones. Here we conduct a systematic search of temporal changes along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault by cross-correlating relatively high-frequency （0.4-1.3 Hz） ambient noise signals recorded by 10 borehole stations in the High Resolution Seismic Network. After using stretch/compressed method to measure the delay time and the decorrelation-index between the daily noise cross-correlation functions （NCCFs）, we find clear temporal changes in the median seismic velocity and decorrelation-index associated with the 2004 M6.0 Parkfield earthquake. We also apply the same procedure to the seismic data around five regional/teleseismic events that have triggered non-volcanic tremor in the same region, but failed to find any clear temporal changes in the daily NCCFs. The fact that our current technique can detect temporal changes from the nearby but not regional and teleseismic events, suggests that temporal changes associated with distance sources are very subtle or localized so that they could not be detected within the resolution of the current technique （-0.2%）.

1960-2020年河南省极端降水时空演变特征

全球变暖加快了水文循环速度,导致极端降水事件频发,增强了城市排水负荷和洪涝风险,并影响了区域气候的时空特征。在河南省均匀选取26个雨量站对1960—2020年61年间的降水资料进行研究,采用趋势分析、Kriging插值、M-K突变分析、Morlet小波变换和Spearman相关系数等方法对河南省9个极端降水指数的时空演变特征进行分析。结果显示:河南省年降水量呈上升趋势,极端降水事件呈下降趋势,河南省整体气候逐渐变得湿润。河南省极端降水指数具有显著空间差异,东南部极端降水风险显著大于西北部。除降水强度、最大连续降水日数和1 d最大降水量外,其余指数与年降水量、汛期和6—9月的各月降水量具有良好的相关性,这对于评估年降水量及其年内分布特征、极端降水事件频率有较好的参考作用。结果表明:降水从短历时高强度向长历时低强度演变,要应对此类长历时极端降水的风险,防涝思路应从提高短时间大量排水能力转变到提高长时间低强度吸收降水能力。

冷能梯级利用的港口多能微网双层不确定性经济调度

为有效挖掘港口液化天然气(LNG)冷能利用的低碳灵活性潜力,充分发挥多时间尺度协同优化效应,提出一种考虑LNG冷能梯级利用的港口多能微网(MEMG)鲁棒-随机双层不确定性经济调度模型。首先,考虑LNG深冷-中冷-浅冷等各个温区的低碳灵活性潜力,建立低温碳捕集-冷能发电-直接冷却的冷能梯级利用模型,并以此为基础形成捕集-存储-利用协同的碳处理流程。其次,根据等概率逆变换生成考虑预测误差时序相关性的风电场景,并基于Wasserstein距离的0-1规划模型进行场景削减。再次,针对风电预测误差随时间尺度增加而增大的特性,构建多时间尺度优化的鲁棒-随机双层不确定性经济调度模型,上层通过分布鲁棒优化保证日前预调度决策鲁棒性,下层通过随机优化保证日内滚动调度决策经济性。最后,仿真结果表明,所提考虑冷能梯级利用的鲁棒-随机双层调度模型在解决日前长时间尺度预测精度低与日内短时间尺度易陷入局部最优矛盾的同时,可赋予港口MEMG更多经济性、低碳性及供电灵活性。

非线性时间一致性的相关滤波目标跟踪

针对现有目标跟踪算法主要采用线性约束机制LADCF(Learning Adaptive Discriminative Correlation Filters)跟踪模型容易漂移的问题,提出非线性时间一致性的相关滤波目标跟踪算法。首先,结合史蒂文斯定律,提出贴近人类视觉感知特性的非线性时间一致项,使模型相对平滑地跟踪目标,从而保证跟踪连续性,避免跟踪模型漂移;其次,采用交替方向乘子法(ADMM)求解最优函数值,保证算法的跟踪实时性;最后,利用史蒂文斯定律非线性更新滤波器,使滤波器更新因子可以根据目标的变化增强和抑制滤波器,以适应目标变化,防止滤波器退化。在4个标准数据集上与主流相关滤波和深度学习算法对比实验,相较于基线算法LADCF,所提算法的跟踪精确度和成功率在OTB100数据集上分别提升了2.4和3.8个百分点;在UAV123上分别提升了1.5和2.5个百分点。实验结果表明,所提算法能有效避免跟踪模型漂移,降低滤波器退化概率,跟踪精确度和成功率较高,面对遮挡、光照变化等复杂场景时具有较强的鲁棒性。

石家庄暴雨时空分布特征及灾情评估

基于石家庄市2015—2021年暴雨洪涝灾情资料数据,以及17个国家站及268个区域自动气象站数据,采用气候统计诊断方法分析了石家庄暴雨时空分布的气候特征,并利用灰色关联分析及逐步回归方法,建立了石家庄市暴雨灾情评估及预评估模型.结果表明:①石家庄暴雨频次及强度随时间呈递增趋势,暴雨强度年际变化增大且极端性增强.②石家庄西北部暴雨频次多、强度大,西南部暴雨频次相对较少,但强度最大,其中平山、井陉为大暴雨、特大暴雨高发区,复杂的地理环境使该地区发生暴雨洪涝灾害的风险增加.③由灰色关联分析方法确定的暴雨灾情等级正确率83.33%,能够反映实际暴雨灾情等级,且有利于客观区分同一等级内暴雨灾情大小.④基于气象因子,利用逐步回归方法建立的暴雨灾情评估及预评估模型正确率可达68.75%.

时空相关的道路网络短时交通流预测模型

为有效解决复杂路网短时交通流预测问题中涉及的时空特征挖掘问题,提出一种基于改进长短时记忆神经网络(Improved Long Short-Term Memory, ILSTM)的交通流预测模型.首先,通过改进的遗传算法对长短时记忆神经网络(Long Short-Term Memory, LSTM)模型初始参数进行优化获得最优参数组合,解决LSTM初始参数设置对输出结果影响较大的问题.其次,针对复杂路网多路段交通流预测中遇到的空间特征提取问题,通过挖掘相关路段对目标路段交通流预测的影响程度,重新构建LSTM模型的损失函数,采用路网中相关路段对目标路段的影响系数,以损失函数输出值最小为终止条件,构建ILSTM模型.最后,选择加州公路局交通数据进行模型验证实验,采用遗传算法优化LSTM模型(Genetic Algorithm-LSTM, GA-LSTM)和单纯LSTM模型,以及皮尔森相关系数与LSTM组合模型(Pearson Correlation Coefficient-LSTM,PCC-LSTM),对工作日和周末数据的多次实验结果进行对比分析.实验结果表明:ILSTM模型能够充分考虑复杂路网交通流的时间和空间特征,预测平均误差约为1.16%,在收敛效率和预测精度方面均优于其他模型.

基于灰色关联模型的沿黄区域山东段生态安全综合评价及时空演化

以沿黄区域山东段为例,建立PSR模型构建生态安全评价指标体系,借助熵权法和灰色关联度模型对其2000—2018年展开生态安全综合评价,并进行时空演变分析。结果显示,整体上沿黄区域山东段生态安全水平呈现出波动中上升的趋势,由“不安全”向“比较安全”转变,子系统中生态响应和生态状态增加的幅度高于生态环境压力增大的幅度,生态环境有所好转;市级尺度下,山东段17地市生态安全水平有所提高,呈现出“下降-上升-下降”的倒“N”字形演变,生态安全类型以“一般安全”为主,高等级类型较少,城市生态安全问题比较严峻;城市生态安全内部空间差异明显,生态安全空间格局向东、向北转移,呈现出“东高西低”“北高南低”的高低错落分布,高等级生态安全区域从东部沿海向鲁北扩散,“临界安全”区域缩小至鲁中南和鲁西北。最后从生态环境治理与保护、优化调控三大空间、经济结构转型升级等方面提出优化路径,改善生态环境质量。

大数据的6种地理学应用范式

随着大数据时代的来临,多源大数据正在兴起,数据驱动研究范式与地理学日益融合。基于个体行为的地理空间大数据可提供对海量个体行为模式的观察,从而实现“由人及地”的社会感知,支持城市管理、交通、公共卫生等不同应用。本文从应用角度,以地理空间大数据为重点,梳理其支持的6种应用范式,按照层次从低到高依次为描述时空分布、识别异常对象、发现普适规律、揭示关联关系、预测未来趋势及优化空间决策。其中,第1个方向是对地理现象和地理要素时空特征的简单刻画;第2~4个方向则注重探寻时空分布特征背后的规律和机理;最后两项,则是在决策层面提供支持。继而,本文指出大数据应用中数据获取、分析方法和应用目标3方面的问题。