Hotelling’s T2 in separable Hilbert spaces

A fast multi-source information fusion strategy based on deep learning for species identification of boletes

Wild mushroom market is an important economic source of Yunnan province in China, and its wild mushroom resources are also valuable wealth in the world. This work will put forward a method of species identification and optimize the method in order to maintain the market order and protect the economic benefits of wild mushrooms. Here we establish deep learning (DL) models based on the two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2DCOS) images of near-infrared spectroscopy from boletes, and optimize the identification effect of the model. The results show that synchronous 2DCOS is the best method to establish DL model, and when the learning rate was 0.01, the epochs were 40, using stipes and caps data, the identification effect would be further improved. This method retains the complete information of the samples and can provide a fast and noninvasive method for identifying boletes species for market regulators.

A Comparative Study of Biomechanical and Geometrical Attributes of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Asian and Caucasian Populations

In this work, we provide a quantitative assessment of the biomechanical and geometric features that characterize abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) models generated from 19 Asian and 19 Caucasian diameter-matched AAA patients. 3D patient-specific finite element models were generated and used to compute peak wall stress (PWS), 99th percentile wall stress (99th WS), and spatially averaged wall stress (AWS) for each AAA. In addition, 51 global geometric indices were calculated, which quantify the wall thickness, shape, and curvature of each AAA. The indices were correlated with 99th WS (the only biomechanical metric that exhibited significant association with geometric indices) using Spearman's correlation and subsequently with multivariate linear regression using backward elimination. For the Asian AAA group, 99th WS was highly correlated (R2 = 0.77) with three geometric indices, namely tortuosity, intraluminal thrombus volume, and area-averaged Gaussian curvature. Similarly, 99th WS in the Caucasian AAA group was highly correlated (R2 = 0.87) with six geometric indices, namely maximum AAA diameter, distal neck diameter, diameter-height ratio, minimum wall thickness variance, mode of the wall thickness variance, and area-averaged Gaussian curvature. Significant differences were found between the two groups for ten geometric indices; however, no differences were found for any of their respective biomechanical attributes. Assuming maximum AAA diameter as the most predictive metric for wall stress was found to be imprecise: 24% and 28% accuracy for the Asian and Caucasian groups, respectively. This investigation reveals that geometric indices other than maximum AAA diameter can serve as predictors of wall stress, and potentially for assessment of aneurysm rupture risk, in the Asian and Caucasian AAA populations.