Pine wilt disease(PWD)is currently one of the main causes of large-scale forest destruction.To control the spread of PWD,it is essential to detect affected pine trees quickly.This study investigated the feasibility of...Pine wilt disease(PWD)is currently one of the main causes of large-scale forest destruction.To control the spread of PWD,it is essential to detect affected pine trees quickly.This study investigated the feasibility of using the object-oriented multi-scale segmentation algorithm to identify trees discolored by PWD.We used an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)platform equipped with an RGB digital camera to obtain high spatial resolution images,and multiscale segmentation was applied to delineate the tree crown,coupling the use of object-oriented classification to classify trees discolored by PWD.Then,the optimal segmentation scale was implemented using the estimation of scale parameter(ESP2)plug-in.The feature space of the segmentation results was optimized,and appropriate features were selected for classification.The results showed that the optimal scale,shape,and compactness values of the tree crown segmentation algorithm were 56,0.5,and 0.8,respectively.The producer’s accuracy(PA),user’s accuracy(UA),and F1 score were 0.722,0.605,and 0.658,respectively.There were no significant classification errors in the final classification results,and the low accuracy was attributed to the low number of objects count caused by incorrect segmentation.The multi-scale segmentation and object-oriented classification method could accurately identify trees discolored by PWD with a straightforward and rapid processing.This study provides a technical method for monitoring the occurrence of PWD and identifying the discolored trees of disease using UAV-based high-resolution images.展开更多
Arrhythmias are a frequently occurring phenomenon in clinical practice,but how to accurately dis-tinguish subtle rhythm abnormalities remains an ongoing difficulty faced by the entire research community when conductin...Arrhythmias are a frequently occurring phenomenon in clinical practice,but how to accurately dis-tinguish subtle rhythm abnormalities remains an ongoing difficulty faced by the entire research community when conducting ECG-based studies.From a review of existing studies,two main factors appear to contribute to this problem:the uneven distribution of arrhythmia classes and the limited expressiveness of features learned by current models.To overcome these limitations,this study proposes a dual-path multimodal framework,termed DM-EHC(Dual-Path Multimodal ECG Heartbeat Classifier),for ECG-based heartbeat classification.The proposed framework links 1D ECG temporal features with 2D time–frequency features.By setting up the dual paths described above,the model can process more dimensions of feature information.The MIT-BIH arrhythmia database was selected as the baseline dataset for the experiments.Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms single modalities and performs better for certain specific types of arrhythmias.The model achieved mean precision,recall,and F1 score of 95.14%,92.26%,and 93.65%,respectively.These results indicate that the framework is robust and has potential value in automated arrhythmia classification.展开更多
Through tracing the background and customary usage of classification of fine-grained sedimentary rocks and terminology,and comparing current“sedimentary petrology”textbooks and monographs,this paper proposes a class...Through tracing the background and customary usage of classification of fine-grained sedimentary rocks and terminology,and comparing current“sedimentary petrology”textbooks and monographs,this paper proposes a classification scheme for fine-grained sedimentary rocks and clarifies related terminology.The comprehensive analysis indicates that the classification of clastic rocks,volcanic clastic rocks,chemical rocks,and biogenic(carbonate)rocks is unified,and the definitions of terms such as lamination,bedding and beds are consistent.However,there is a disagreement on the definition of“mud”.European and American scholars commonly use the term“mud”to include silt and clay(particle size less than 0.0625 mm).Chinese scholars equate the term“mud”to“clay”(particle size less than 0.0039 mm or less than 0.01 mm).Combined with the discussion on terms such as sedimentary structures(bedding,lamination and lamellation),shale,mudstone,mudrocks/argillaceous rocks and mud shale,it is recommended to use“fine-grained sedimentary rocks”as the general term for all sedimentary rocks composed of fine-grained materials with particle size less than 0.0625 mm,including claystone/mudrocks and siltstone.Claystone/mudrocks are further classified into argillaceous(or clayey)mudstone/shale,calcareous mudstone/shale,siliceous mudstone/shale,silty mudstone/shale and silt-containing mudstone/shale.Argillaceous(or clayey)mudstone/shale emphasizes a content of clay minerals or clay-sized particles exceeding 50%.Other mudstones/shales emphasize a content of particles(particle size less than 0.0625 mm)exceeding 50%.The commonly referred term“shale”should not include siltstone.It is necessary to establish a reasonable,standardized,and applicable classification scheme for fine-grained sedimentary rocks in the future.An integrated shale microfacies research at the thin-section scale should be carried out,and combined with well logging data interpretation and seismic attribute analysis,a geological model of lithology/lithofacies will be iteratively upgraded to accurately determine sweet layer,locate target layer,and evaluate favorable area.展开更多
BACKGROUND Accurate classification of adverse events(AEs)in gastrointestinal endoscopy is essential for safety monitoring and quality improvement.The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy(ASGE)lexicon is wid...BACKGROUND Accurate classification of adverse events(AEs)in gastrointestinal endoscopy is essential for safety monitoring and quality improvement.The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy(ASGE)lexicon is widely used,while the classification for AEs in gastrointestinal endoscopy(AGREE)is a recently proposed alternative aiming for broader applicability.AIM To compare the agreement and correlation between the AGREE and ASGE classification systems using real-world data from a Latin American academic endoscopy unit.METHODS A retrospective analysis of a prospective registry was conducted at a tertiary center in Chile,encompassing all endoscopy-related AEs from 2009 to 2022.Each AE was independently graded using both ASGE and AGREE classification systems by two blinded reviewers per system.Interobserver agreement was calculated using Cohen’s Kappa,and inter-scale correlation was assessed using Spearman’s rank test.RESULTS Of 176655 procedures performed,235 AEs(0.13%)were included.Most events were related to therapeutic procedures,and the most common AEs were cardiorespiratory(42.1%),bleeding(20.9%),and perforation(17.0%).The ASGE system identified 42.1%of cases as incidents and 57.9%as AEs(Kappa=0.83).AGREE classified 46.0%as non-AEs and 54.0%as AEs(Kappa=0.74).A strong correlation between both systems was observed(ρ=0.89;P<0.001).CONCLUSION The AGREE classification strongly correlates with the ASGE lexicon but excludes more cases as non-AEs and shows slightly lower interobserver agreement.These findings support AGREE as a feasible alternative for AE grading in gastrointestinal endoscopy,particularly in diverse clinical environments.展开更多
Visual diagnosis of skin cancer is challenging due to subtle inter-class similarities,variations in skin texture,the presence of hair,and inconsistent illumination.Deep learning models have shown promise in assisting ...Visual diagnosis of skin cancer is challenging due to subtle inter-class similarities,variations in skin texture,the presence of hair,and inconsistent illumination.Deep learning models have shown promise in assisting early detection,yet their performance is often limited by the severe class imbalance present in dermoscopic datasets.This paper proposes CANNSkin,a skin cancer classification framework that integrates a convolutional autoencoder with latent-space oversampling to address this imbalance.The autoencoder is trained to reconstruct lesion images,and its latent embeddings are used as features for classification.To enhance minority-class representation,the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique(SMOTE)is applied directly to the latent vectors before classifier training.The encoder and classifier are first trained independently and later fine-tuned end-to-end.On the HAM10000 dataset,CANNSkin achieves an accuracy of 93.01%,a macro-F1 of 88.54%,and an ROC–AUC of 98.44%,demonstrating strong robustness across ten test subsets.Evaluation on the more complex ISIC 2019 dataset further confirms the model’s effectiveness,where CANNSkin achieves 94.27%accuracy,93.95%precision,94.09%recall,and 99.02%F1-score,supported by high reconstruction fidelity(PSNR 35.03 dB,SSIM 0.86).These results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed latent-space balancing and fine-tuned representation learning as a new benchmark method for robust and accurate skin cancer classification across heterogeneous datasets.展开更多
Background:Accurate classification of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)is essential for clinical decision-making but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity.Existing approaches often focus solel...Background:Accurate classification of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)is essential for clinical decision-making but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity.Existing approaches often focus solely on classification or treat segmentation and classification as separate tasks,limiting overall performance and interpretability.Methods:This study proposes an end-to-end automated framework that integrates optimized tumor localization with multiclass classification.An optimized segmentation model is first employed to generate tumor masks,which are then overlaid on MRI scans to produce attention-enhanced inputs.These inputs are subsequently used to train a convolutional neural network(CNN)classifier.Experiments were conducted on a public dataset comprising 4,237 MRI scans across four categories:normal,glioma,meningioma,and pituitary tumors.Results:Three widely used segmentation models were systematically evaluated,with an optimized U-Net achieving the best performance(accuracy=0.9939,Dice=0.8893).Segmentation-guided classification consistently improved performance across six CNN architectures,with the most notable gains observed in heterogeneous tumor types such as glioma and meningioma.Among the classifiers,EfficientNet-V2 achieved the highest performance,with an accuracy of 0.9835,precision of 0.9858,recall of 0.9804,and F1-score of 0.9828.The framework was further validated on an independent external dataset,demonstrating consistent performance and robustness across diverse MRI sources.Conclusion:The proposed framework demonstrates strong potential for multiclass brain tumor classification by effectively combining segmentation and classification.This segmentation-driven approach not only enhances predictive accuracy but also improves interpretability,making it more suitable for clinical applications.展开更多
Over the past decade,phylogenomics has significantly enhanced our understanding of relationships among numerous angiosperm lineages.However,comprehensive phylogenetic studies combining broad sampling of both genomic s...Over the past decade,phylogenomics has significantly enhanced our understanding of relationships among numerous angiosperm lineages.However,comprehensive phylogenetic studies combining broad sampling of both genomic sequences and taxa within the nettle family(Urticaceae)are still lacking.Here,we reconstructed the phylogeny of Urticaceae(345 species across 89% of accepted genera)using concatenated and coalescent analyses from plastome and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences.Different plastid datasets and tree inference methods yielded a consistent phylogenetic backbone,with 98% of nodes achieving>90% bootstrap support—a significant improvement compared to 54% of nodes in the latest published phylogenetic study of Urticaceae.Plastid and nuclear phylogenetic relationships were largely congruent,with several exceptions that warrant further study.In the context of the updated phylogenetic relationships,we propose dividing the family into seven tribes that correspond to seven major clades or subclades,including a newly established tribe,Sarcochlamydeae stat.nov.Our phylogenetic analysis indicates that Debregeasia and Phenax are non-monophyletic.By combing morphological,molecular and distributional evidence,we describe a new genus Chiajuia gen.nov.Additionally,we propose synonymizing the following genera:Cypholophus(to Boehmeria),Haroldiella(to Pilea),Hemistylus,Neodistemon,Rousselia(all to Pouzolzia),Hesperocnide(to Urtica),and Pellionia(to Elatostema),while recognizing Elatostematoides,Gonostegia,Leptocnide,Margarocarpus,Scepocarpus,and Sceptrocnide as distinct genera.This robust phylogenomic framework and revised classification lays a foundation for future studies on the evolution and ecology of Urticaceae.The approach applied here may also serve as an important reference for other large plant families in angiosperms.展开更多
UAV remote sensing images have the advantages of high spatial resolution,fast speed,strong real-time performance,and convenient operation,etc.,and have become a recently developed,vital means of acquiring surface info...UAV remote sensing images have the advantages of high spatial resolution,fast speed,strong real-time performance,and convenient operation,etc.,and have become a recently developed,vital means of acquiring surface information.It is an important research task for precision agriculture to make full use of the spectrum,texture,color and other characteristic information of crops,especially the spatial arrangement and structure information of features,to explore effective methods for the classification of multiple varieties of crops.In order to explore the applicability of the object-oriented method to achieve accurate classification of UAV high-resolution images,the paper used the object-oriented classification method in ENVI to classify the UAV high-resolution remote sensing image obtained from the orderly structured 28 species of crops in the test field,which mainly includes image segmentation and object classification.The results showed that the plots obtained after classification were continuous and complete,basically in line with the actual situation,and the overall accuracy of crop classification was 91.73%,with Kappa coefficient of 0.87.Compared with the crop planting area based on remote sensing interpretation and field survey,the area error of 17 species of crops in this study was controlled within 15%,which provides a basis for object-oriented crop classification of UAV remote sensing images.展开更多
Accurate skin cancer diagnosis is vital for early treatment and improved patient outcomes.Deep learning models have shown promise in automating skin cancer classification,yet challenges remain due to data scarcity and...Accurate skin cancer diagnosis is vital for early treatment and improved patient outcomes.Deep learning models have shown promise in automating skin cancer classification,yet challenges remain due to data scarcity and limited uncertainty awareness.This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of deep learning-based skin lesion classification with transfer learning and UQ on the HAM10000 dataset.We benchmark several pre-trained feature extractors(including Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training(CLIP)variants,ResNet50,DenseNet121,VGG16,EfficientNet-V2-Large,and ConvNeXt Large)combined with traditional classifiers such as SVM,XGBoost,and logistic regression.Multiple PCA settings(64,128,256,512)are explored,with LAION CLIP ViT-H/14 and ViT-L/14 at PCA-256 achieving the strongest baseline results.In the UQ phase,Monte Carlo Dropout(MCD),Ensemble,and Ensemble Monte Carlo Dropout(EMCD)are applied and evaluated using uncertainty-aware metrics(UAcc,USen,USpe,UPre).Ensemble methods with PCA-256 provide the best balance between accuracy and reliability.Further improvements are obtained through feature fusion of top-performing extractors at PCA-256.Finally,we propose a feature-fusion-based model trained with a Predictive Entropy(PE)loss function,which outperforms all prior configurations across both standard and uncertainty-aware evaluations,advancing trustworthy deep learning-based skin cancer diagnosis.展开更多
Field-road classification,a fine-grained form of agricultural machinery operation-mode identification,aims to use Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)trajectory data to assign each trajectory point a semantic labe...Field-road classification,a fine-grained form of agricultural machinery operation-mode identification,aims to use Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)trajectory data to assign each trajectory point a semantic label indicating whether the machine is performing field work or travelling on roads.Existing methods struggle with highly imbalanced class distributions,noisy measurements,and intricate spatiotemporal dependencies.This paper presents AgroGeoDB-Net,a unified framework that combines a residual BiLSTM backbone with two tightly coupled innovations:(i)a Density-Aware Local Interpolator(DALI),which balances the minority road class via density-aware interpolation while preserving road-segment structure;and(ii)a geometry-aware training objective that couples a DBSCAN-weighted focal loss with a density-regularised KL divergence,ensuring that both classification and latent representations reflect local trajectory density.The workflow first converts each enriched GNSS point into a 14-dimensional motion-spatial descriptor,projects it into a compact latent space through a variational auto-encoder,and then applies a residual BiLSTM to model bidirectional temporal dependencies before a linear classifier produces point-wise field-road predictions.Experiments on wheat,corn,and paddy datasets show overall accuracies of 98.62%,95.46%,and 93.35%,with consistently stronger road class and overall performance than existing methods.Ablation studies further confirm that both the residual shortcut and DALI contribute positively,with DALI providing the greatest benefit for the minority road class.Tests on the unseen Harvester and Tractor datasets also demonstrate strong generalisation to previously unseen datasets.Taken together,the results show that AgroGeoDB-Net delivers reliable and scalable field-road classification from GNSS trajectories.展开更多
Automated classification of seismic events is critical for earthquake monitoring and explosion detection,particularly in tectonically active regions,such as North China,where the waveform features of earthquakes and e...Automated classification of seismic events is critical for earthquake monitoring and explosion detection,particularly in tectonically active regions,such as North China,where the waveform features of earthquakes and explosions are highly similar.This study compared feature-based machine learning(ML)and image-based deep learning(DL)methods in event-and stationlevel classification frameworks.The dataset consisted of 1,847 events and more than 43,000 vertical-component waveforms with two input types,40-dimensional feature vectors for ML and spectrogram images for DL.The results showed that the eventlevel models consistently outperformed the station-level models,achieving over 98%accuracy;the station-level models performed well above 94%.On the test set,the ML and DL models exhibited comparable performance;however,the ML models demonstrated better generalization and lower computational demands.In contrast,DL models required fewer manual interventions.The misclassification analysis revealed distinct error patterns across the model types,indicating potential complementarity.These findings highlight the importance of model choice based on the input type,data granularity,and generalization needs.Although DL models are well suited to automated processing,ML approaches provide more robust and efficient solutions for real-world deployment.展开更多
Accurate individual tree species classification is essential for forest inventory,management,and conservation.However,existing methods relying primarily on single-source remote sensing data(e.g.,spectral,LiDAR,or RGB)...Accurate individual tree species classification is essential for forest inventory,management,and conservation.However,existing methods relying primarily on single-source remote sensing data(e.g.,spectral,LiDAR,or RGB)often suffer from insufficient feature representation and noise interference,particularly in subtropical forests with high species diversity,leading to increased classification errors.To address these challenges,we proposed the Multi-source Tree Species Classification Fusion Network(MTSCFNet),a novel deep learning framework that integrates RGB imagery,LiDAR-derived feature maps,and GF-2 satellite data through a modified UNet backbone,which incorporates a three-branch encoder and a Triple Branch Feature Fusion(TBFF)module within a middle fusion strategy.We evaluated the MTSCFNet in Chinese-fir mixed forests located in the Shanxia Forest Farm,Jiangxi Province,China.The results showed that:(1)MTSCFNet outperformed four baseline models,achieving Macro F1(0.78±0.01),Micro F1(0.93±0.01),Weighted F1(0.93±0.01),a Matthews correlation coefficient(MCC)(0.89±0.01),Cohen’sĸ(0.89±0.01),and mIoU(0.69±0.01),with respective improvements of 4.05%in Macro F1,1.89%in Micro F1,0.09%in Weighted F1,1.67%in MCC,1.64%in Cohen’sĸ,and 5.92%in Mean IoU over the second best model,SwinUNet;(2)Compared to the best two-source combinations(R+S,R+L),MTSCFNet achieved up to 1.50%,3.28%,3.42%,6.72%,6.76%,and 3.51%higher Macro F1,Micro F1,Weighted F1,MCC,Cohen’sĸ,and mIoU,and up to 8.11%,2.63%,2.88%,5.01%,4.99%,and 11.48%improvements over single-source inputs,while also exhibiting the lowest variability,indicating strong robustness;(3)Under different fusion strategies,MTSCFNet with middle fusion surpassed early and late fusion by up to 15.31%,3.74%,3.99%,7.66%,7.76%,22.33%and 24.13%,5.76%,6.20%,11.48%,11.57%,32.96%in Macro F1,Micro F1,Weighted F1,MCC,Cohen’sĸ,and mIoU,respectively,validating the effectiveness of feature-level multi-modal integration;(4)In cross-region transfer experiments,MTSCFNet demonstrated strong spatial generalizability,achieving average scores of 0.78(Macro F1),0.87(Micro F1),0.86(Weighted F1),0.59(MCC),0.59(Cohen’sĸ),and 0.68(mIoU),and outperformed SwinUNet by up to 38.80%,9.40%,18.58%,22.48%,26.17%,and 33.00%in Macro F1,Micro F1,Weighted F1,MCC,Cohen’sĸ,and mIoU across varying forest densities.Overall,MTSCFNet offers a robust,accurate,and transferable solution for tree species classification in complex subtropical forest environments.展开更多
Skin diseases affect millions worldwide.Early detection is key to preventing disfigurement,lifelong disability,or death.Dermoscopic images acquired in primary-care settings show high intra-class visual similarity and ...Skin diseases affect millions worldwide.Early detection is key to preventing disfigurement,lifelong disability,or death.Dermoscopic images acquired in primary-care settings show high intra-class visual similarity and severe class imbalance,and occasional imaging artifacts can create ambiguity for state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks(CNNs).We frame skin lesion recognition as graph-based reasoning and,to ensure fair evaluation and avoid data leakage,adopt a strict lesion-level partitioning strategy.Each image is first over-segmented using SLIC(Simple Linear Iterative Clustering)to produce perceptually homogeneous superpixels.These superpixels form the nodes of a region-adjacency graph whose edges encode spatial continuity.Node attributes are 1280-dimensional embeddings extracted with a lightweight yet expressive EfficientNet-B0 backbone,providing strong representational power at modest computational cost.The resulting graphs are processed by a five-layer Graph Attention Network(GAT)that learns to weight inter-node relationships dynamically and aggregates multi-hop context before classifying lesions into seven classes with a log-softmax output.Extensive experiments on the DermaMNIST benchmark show the proposed pipeline achieves 88.35%accuracy and 98.04%AUC,outperforming contemporary CNNs,AutoML approaches,and alternative graph neural networks.An ablation study indicates EfficientNet-B0 produces superior node descriptors compared with ResNet-18 and DenseNet,and that roughly five GAT layers strike a good balance between being too shallow and over-deep while avoiding oversmoothing.The method requires no data augmentation or external metadata,making it a drop-in upgrade for clinical computer-aided diagnosis systems.展开更多
Recently,large-scale deep learning models have been increasingly adopted for point cloud classification.However,thesemethods typically require collecting extensive datasets frommultiple clients,which may lead to priva...Recently,large-scale deep learning models have been increasingly adopted for point cloud classification.However,thesemethods typically require collecting extensive datasets frommultiple clients,which may lead to privacy leaks.Federated learning provides an effective solution to data leakage by eliminating the need for data transmission,relying instead on the exchange of model parameters.However,the uneven distribution of client data can still affect the model’s ability to generalize effectively.To address these challenges,we propose a new framework for point cloud classification called Federated Dynamic Aggregation Selection Strategy-based Multi-Receptive Field Fusion Classification Framework(FDASS-MRFCF).Specifically,we tackle these challenges with two key innovations:(1)During the client local training phase,we propose a Multi-Receptive Field Fusion Classification Model(MRFCM),which captures local and global structures in point cloud data through dynamic convolution and multi-scale feature fusion,enhancing the robustness of point cloud classification.(2)In the server aggregation phase,we introduce a Federated Dynamic Aggregation Selection Strategy(FDASS),which employs a hybrid strategy to average client model parameters,skip aggregation,or reallocate local models to different clients,thereby balancing global consistency and local diversity.We evaluate our framework using the ModelNet40 and ShapeNetPart benchmarks,demonstrating its effectiveness.The proposed method is expected to significantly advance the field of point cloud classification in a secure environment.展开更多
Automatic identification of microseismic(MS)signals is crucial for early disaster warning in deep underground engineering.However,three major challenges remain for practical deployment,namely limited resources,severe ...Automatic identification of microseismic(MS)signals is crucial for early disaster warning in deep underground engineering.However,three major challenges remain for practical deployment,namely limited resources,severe noise interference,and data scarcity.To address these issues,this study proposes the lightweight and robust entropy-regularized unsupervised domain adaptation framework(LRE-UDAF)for cross-domain MS signal classification.The framework comprises a lightweight and robust feature extractor and an unsupervised domain adaptation(UDA)module utilizing a bi-classifier disparity metric and entropy regularization.The feature extractor derives high-level representations from the preprocessed signals,which are subsequently fed into two classifiers to predict class probability.Through three-stage adversarial learning,the feature extractor and classifiers progressively align the distributions of the source and target domains,facilitating knowledge transfer from the labeled source to the unlabeled target domain.Source-domain experiments reveal that the feature extractor achieves high effectiveness,with a classification accuracy of up to 97.7%.Moreover,LRE-UDAF outperforms prevalent industry networks in terms of its lightweight design and robustness.Cross-domain experiments indicate that the proposed UDA method effectively mitigates domain shift with minimal unlabeled signals.Ablation and comparative experiments further validate the design effectiveness of the feature extractor and UDA modules.This framework presents an efficient solution for resource-constrained,noise-prone,and data-scarce environments in deep underground engineering,offering significant promise for practical implementations in early disaster warning.展开更多
Accurate identification of crack types in rock masses is critical for understanding damage mechanisms and ensuring the structural safety of rock engineering.This study presents a novel unsupervised classification fram...Accurate identification of crack types in rock masses is critical for understanding damage mechanisms and ensuring the structural safety of rock engineering.This study presents a novel unsupervised classification framework based on Gaussian mixture modeling(GMM)for distinguishing acoustic emission(AE)signatures associated with different fracture modes in sandstone samples that contain prefabricated fissures at varying inclination angles.The frequency-domain characteristics of the AE signals were extracted using fast Fourier transform(FFT),while the RA-AF ratio(rise time/amplitude versus average frequency)parameter space was employed to characterize the crack mechanisms.To increase classification accuracy and model robustness,the Bayesian information criterion(BIC)was introduced to determine the optimal number of Gaussian components.Experimental results from uniaxial compression tests reveal that fissure inclination significantly affects crack evolution behavior:low-angle fissures favor shear and hybrid cracks,whereas high-angle fissures cause tensile failure.The proposed GMM-based method effectively identifies tensile,shear,and hybrid cracks with increased objectivity and accuracy,outperforming traditional empirical RA-AF thresholding techniques.This research provides a reliable and generalizable approach for AE signal classification,which presents theoretical insights and practical support for real-time monitoring,early warning,and structural health assessment in fractured rock masses.展开更多
Climate change and anthropogenic activities have profoundly affected coastal systems,making geomorphological research a critical focus for coastal protection and sustainable development.In this study,a comprehensive c...Climate change and anthropogenic activities have profoundly affected coastal systems,making geomorphological research a critical focus for coastal protection and sustainable development.In this study,a comprehensive classification of beach states around Hainan Island is conducted for the first time by utilizing theΩ-RTR model and geological control modes.Six distinct classic beach states ranging from dissipative to reflective are identified:barred dissipative beaches or no-barred dissipative beaches(BD or NBD),barred beaches(B),low-tide terrace or low-tide bar with rip(LTTR or LTBR),and reflective state(R).Among these,the BD and B types are predominant on Hainan Island.Notably,the beach states are subject to multiple factors,such as hydrodynamic forcings,geomorphic features and underlying substrates,and exhibit remarkable spatiotemporal variability.During extreme events,hydrodynamic forcings impact beach states more substantially than geological and geomorphic features do,leading to a more homogeneous distribution of beach states.Under normal circumstance,beach states are predominantly controlled by geological and geomorphic features.Coastal geological and geomorphic features have a pronounced influence on beach morphology and stability.For example,hard substrates underpin wide and stable dissipative beaches,whereas softer substrates lead to narrower,erosion-prone beaches.Three geological control modes are identified,namely,gently sloping hard substrates with dissipative beaches,moderately sloping hard substrates with seasonally variable reflective beaches,and steeply sloping soft substrates with dynamic sandbar-dominated beaches.These findings highlight the necessity of integrating geological settings in tandem with hydrodynamic forcings into coastal management practices.A dual-mode strategy is proposed:maintaining geomorphic self-organization on hard-substrate coasts under normal conditions and implementing hybrid engineering–ecological measures(e.g.,artificial sand replenishment and vegetation restoration)on erosion-prone soft substrates.展开更多
Border areas are important spaces for national security and opening up to the outside world,and the level of population security in these areas is related to border stability and regional sustainable development.North...Border areas are important spaces for national security and opening up to the outside world,and the level of population security in these areas is related to border stability and regional sustainable development.Northeast China is a typical area of population shrinkage,and the problem of population shrinkage in border areas is even more prominent.Against the backdrop of population shrinkage,this paper takes 45 border counties(cities,districts)in Northeast China as an example,and uses the entropy method and multiple linear regression to assess the population security level in border areas and explore its influencing factors.The study found that:1)from 2010 to 2020,the population of the northeast border area continuously declined and entered a stage of overall population shrinkage,with a total decrease of approximately 1.34 million over the decade.In particular,the border areas of Jilin Province experienced the widest and most severe population shrinkage.2)The population security level in the northeast border area generally declined and exhibited significant spatial differentiation.Areas with relatively high population security were mainly concentrated in the northeast border areas of Heilongjiang Province,where openness and industrial development were relatively strong,whereas areas with low population security were concentrated in parts of the border areas of Jilin Province and Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture,where population loss was severe and the level of openness was relatively low.3)Population security types can be classified into three categories:security stability,security improvement,and security decline,with the security decline type accounting for nearly one-third of the study area.4)Population security is not solely determined by population size,but rather by the coordinated relationship among population quantity,structure,and regional development capacity.Economic development is the key factor affecting population security.Economic indicators such as nighttime light index and the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries have significant positive effects on population security,while natural and administrative factors also play certain roles.Finally,this study proposes differentiated governance strategies for different types of areas,with the aim of improving the population security level and maintaining border stability in the northeast border area.展开更多
Fruit diseases significantly impact agricultural productivity,yet automated detection systems often fail to provide interpretable predictions and are sensitive to background variations in images,particularly in orange...Fruit diseases significantly impact agricultural productivity,yet automated detection systems often fail to provide interpretable predictions and are sensitive to background variations in images,particularly in orange fruit disease datasets.Current deep learning approaches are prone to background bias,which reduces explainability and generalization.To address this,we propose a deep learning framework that explicitly reduces background noise and bias in orange fruit disease image classification while providing interpretable,pixel-level predictions.The framework integrates existing architectural components,including grouped convolutions with channel shuffling,Leaky ReLU and clipped ReLU activations,and attention-based feature extraction,within a bias-aware design motivated by explainability analysis.The contribution lies in the problem-driven integration of these components and a background standardization preprocessing step to improve explanation reliability.A Grid Search algorithm is used to optimize the hyperparameters.Data augmentation is applied to enhance generalization.We used perceptual hashing to ensure no duplicate images existed between training and testing sets,thereby preventing data leakage and maintaining dataset integrity.For interpretability,we employ Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations(LIME);however,initial explanations highlighted irrelevant background regions.To address this,we introduce a novel preprocessing step using the GrabCut algorithm and morphological operations to standardize image backgrounds,ensuring explanations focus solely on diseased regions.Unlike existing methods,our background standardization technique,based on GrabCut and white background standardization,improves the relevance of LIME explanations by reducing background-focused attributions from 62.2%to 7.7%of cases,while yielding modest,consistent improvements in classification accuracy(0.15%–0.24%).We further evaluate DeepOrangeNet’s feature extraction by classifying its learned representations using six classifiers,including linear discriminant analysis,fine decision tree,Gaussian Naive Bayes,fine k-nearest neighbors,linear support vector machine,and logistic regression,demonstrating its superior adaptability.DeepOrangeNet has been compared with the state-of-the-art methods,proving not only its accuracy but also its explainable and lightweight architecture for real-world agricultural implementation.展开更多
Remote sensing image classification using deep learning methods faces challenges such as high complexity,significant computational demands,and inefficiency on resource-constrained devices,while also being affected by ...Remote sensing image classification using deep learning methods faces challenges such as high complexity,significant computational demands,and inefficiency on resource-constrained devices,while also being affected by issues like class similarity and spatial distribution.Current convolutional neural networks rely on stacking small convolutional kernels for feature learning,which results in relatively low classification accuracy,while their dependence on centralized learning architectures with high-performance GPUs/CPUs incurs substantial training costs.Therefore,this paper proposes a distributed rapid classification method for high-similarity natural scene remote sensing images using an improved VGG19 model(RS-VGG19)that combines residual connections and attention mechanisms.By introducing residual connections,the method improves training convergence speed and high-level feature learning ability,effectively preventing gradient vanishing during training.Embedding the SENet visual attention module in the tenth convolution layer allows the model to more specifically extract similar and significant features in remote sensing images.By employing a combination of cross-entropy and center loss functions,the model is able to learn features with reduced intra-class variance and increased inter-class variance,further enhancing classification accuracy.The distributed inference framework Spark is employed for decentralized model training,storing large-scale remote sensing images in the distributed file system HDFS,and accessing the pre-trained RS-VGG19 model in Docker containers on cluster nodes for distributed inference and classification using PySpark.Experimental results show that on two commonly used high-similarity remote sensing image datasets,NWPU-RESISC45 and UCMerced Land-Use,the RS-VGG19 model improves classification accuracy by 6.57%and 8.76%respectively compared to the original VGG19 model,and significantly enhances accuracy compared to other related classification models.This demonstrates the superior performance of the proposed structure and loss function fusion strategy in remote sensing image classification tasks.On the large-scale remote sensing image inference dataset NWPU-RESISC45,while maintaining classification accuracy,the distributed inference framework achieved a speedup of 11.9 when using six nodes,an improvement of 98.33%over theoretical linear speedup(6.00),reducing dependency on high-end hardware resources and significantly improving the classification speed of high-similarity natural scene remote sensing images.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31870620)the National Technology Extension Fund of Forestry([2019]06)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.PTYX202107)。
摘要Pine wilt disease(PWD)is currently one of the main causes of large-scale forest destruction.To control the spread of PWD,it is essential to detect affected pine trees quickly.This study investigated the feasibility of using the object-oriented multi-scale segmentation algorithm to identify trees discolored by PWD.We used an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)platform equipped with an RGB digital camera to obtain high spatial resolution images,and multiscale segmentation was applied to delineate the tree crown,coupling the use of object-oriented classification to classify trees discolored by PWD.Then,the optimal segmentation scale was implemented using the estimation of scale parameter(ESP2)plug-in.The feature space of the segmentation results was optimized,and appropriate features were selected for classification.The results showed that the optimal scale,shape,and compactness values of the tree crown segmentation algorithm were 56,0.5,and 0.8,respectively.The producer’s accuracy(PA),user’s accuracy(UA),and F1 score were 0.722,0.605,and 0.658,respectively.There were no significant classification errors in the final classification results,and the low accuracy was attributed to the low number of objects count caused by incorrect segmentation.The multi-scale segmentation and object-oriented classification method could accurately identify trees discolored by PWD with a straightforward and rapid processing.This study provides a technical method for monitoring the occurrence of PWD and identifying the discolored trees of disease using UAV-based high-resolution images.
基金supported by the Innovative Human Resource Development for Local Intel-lectualization program through the Institute of Information&Communications Technology Planning&Evaluation(IITP)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(No.IITP-2026-2020-0-01741)the research fund of Hanyang University(HY-2025-1110).
摘要Arrhythmias are a frequently occurring phenomenon in clinical practice,but how to accurately dis-tinguish subtle rhythm abnormalities remains an ongoing difficulty faced by the entire research community when conducting ECG-based studies.From a review of existing studies,two main factors appear to contribute to this problem:the uneven distribution of arrhythmia classes and the limited expressiveness of features learned by current models.To overcome these limitations,this study proposes a dual-path multimodal framework,termed DM-EHC(Dual-Path Multimodal ECG Heartbeat Classifier),for ECG-based heartbeat classification.The proposed framework links 1D ECG temporal features with 2D time–frequency features.By setting up the dual paths described above,the model can process more dimensions of feature information.The MIT-BIH arrhythmia database was selected as the baseline dataset for the experiments.Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms single modalities and performs better for certain specific types of arrhythmias.The model achieved mean precision,recall,and F1 score of 95.14%,92.26%,and 93.65%,respectively.These results indicate that the framework is robust and has potential value in automated arrhythmia classification.
基金Supported by the Integrated Project of National Natural Science Foundation and Enterprise Innovation Development Joint Foundation(U24B6004)。
摘要Through tracing the background and customary usage of classification of fine-grained sedimentary rocks and terminology,and comparing current“sedimentary petrology”textbooks and monographs,this paper proposes a classification scheme for fine-grained sedimentary rocks and clarifies related terminology.The comprehensive analysis indicates that the classification of clastic rocks,volcanic clastic rocks,chemical rocks,and biogenic(carbonate)rocks is unified,and the definitions of terms such as lamination,bedding and beds are consistent.However,there is a disagreement on the definition of“mud”.European and American scholars commonly use the term“mud”to include silt and clay(particle size less than 0.0625 mm).Chinese scholars equate the term“mud”to“clay”(particle size less than 0.0039 mm or less than 0.01 mm).Combined with the discussion on terms such as sedimentary structures(bedding,lamination and lamellation),shale,mudstone,mudrocks/argillaceous rocks and mud shale,it is recommended to use“fine-grained sedimentary rocks”as the general term for all sedimentary rocks composed of fine-grained materials with particle size less than 0.0625 mm,including claystone/mudrocks and siltstone.Claystone/mudrocks are further classified into argillaceous(or clayey)mudstone/shale,calcareous mudstone/shale,siliceous mudstone/shale,silty mudstone/shale and silt-containing mudstone/shale.Argillaceous(or clayey)mudstone/shale emphasizes a content of clay minerals or clay-sized particles exceeding 50%.Other mudstones/shales emphasize a content of particles(particle size less than 0.0625 mm)exceeding 50%.The commonly referred term“shale”should not include siltstone.It is necessary to establish a reasonable,standardized,and applicable classification scheme for fine-grained sedimentary rocks in the future.An integrated shale microfacies research at the thin-section scale should be carried out,and combined with well logging data interpretation and seismic attribute analysis,a geological model of lithology/lithofacies will be iteratively upgraded to accurately determine sweet layer,locate target layer,and evaluate favorable area.
摘要BACKGROUND Accurate classification of adverse events(AEs)in gastrointestinal endoscopy is essential for safety monitoring and quality improvement.The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy(ASGE)lexicon is widely used,while the classification for AEs in gastrointestinal endoscopy(AGREE)is a recently proposed alternative aiming for broader applicability.AIM To compare the agreement and correlation between the AGREE and ASGE classification systems using real-world data from a Latin American academic endoscopy unit.METHODS A retrospective analysis of a prospective registry was conducted at a tertiary center in Chile,encompassing all endoscopy-related AEs from 2009 to 2022.Each AE was independently graded using both ASGE and AGREE classification systems by two blinded reviewers per system.Interobserver agreement was calculated using Cohen’s Kappa,and inter-scale correlation was assessed using Spearman’s rank test.RESULTS Of 176655 procedures performed,235 AEs(0.13%)were included.Most events were related to therapeutic procedures,and the most common AEs were cardiorespiratory(42.1%),bleeding(20.9%),and perforation(17.0%).The ASGE system identified 42.1%of cases as incidents and 57.9%as AEs(Kappa=0.83).AGREE classified 46.0%as non-AEs and 54.0%as AEs(Kappa=0.74).A strong correlation between both systems was observed(ρ=0.89;P<0.001).CONCLUSION The AGREE classification strongly correlates with the ASGE lexicon but excludes more cases as non-AEs and shows slightly lower interobserver agreement.These findings support AGREE as a feasible alternative for AE grading in gastrointestinal endoscopy,particularly in diverse clinical environments.
基金supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University(IMSIU)(grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2601).
摘要Visual diagnosis of skin cancer is challenging due to subtle inter-class similarities,variations in skin texture,the presence of hair,and inconsistent illumination.Deep learning models have shown promise in assisting early detection,yet their performance is often limited by the severe class imbalance present in dermoscopic datasets.This paper proposes CANNSkin,a skin cancer classification framework that integrates a convolutional autoencoder with latent-space oversampling to address this imbalance.The autoencoder is trained to reconstruct lesion images,and its latent embeddings are used as features for classification.To enhance minority-class representation,the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique(SMOTE)is applied directly to the latent vectors before classifier training.The encoder and classifier are first trained independently and later fine-tuned end-to-end.On the HAM10000 dataset,CANNSkin achieves an accuracy of 93.01%,a macro-F1 of 88.54%,and an ROC–AUC of 98.44%,demonstrating strong robustness across ten test subsets.Evaluation on the more complex ISIC 2019 dataset further confirms the model’s effectiveness,where CANNSkin achieves 94.27%accuracy,93.95%precision,94.09%recall,and 99.02%F1-score,supported by high reconstruction fidelity(PSNR 35.03 dB,SSIM 0.86).These results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed latent-space balancing and fine-tuned representation learning as a new benchmark method for robust and accurate skin cancer classification across heterogeneous datasets.
摘要Background:Accurate classification of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)is essential for clinical decision-making but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity.Existing approaches often focus solely on classification or treat segmentation and classification as separate tasks,limiting overall performance and interpretability.Methods:This study proposes an end-to-end automated framework that integrates optimized tumor localization with multiclass classification.An optimized segmentation model is first employed to generate tumor masks,which are then overlaid on MRI scans to produce attention-enhanced inputs.These inputs are subsequently used to train a convolutional neural network(CNN)classifier.Experiments were conducted on a public dataset comprising 4,237 MRI scans across four categories:normal,glioma,meningioma,and pituitary tumors.Results:Three widely used segmentation models were systematically evaluated,with an optimized U-Net achieving the best performance(accuracy=0.9939,Dice=0.8893).Segmentation-guided classification consistently improved performance across six CNN architectures,with the most notable gains observed in heterogeneous tumor types such as glioma and meningioma.Among the classifiers,EfficientNet-V2 achieved the highest performance,with an accuracy of 0.9835,precision of 0.9858,recall of 0.9804,and F1-score of 0.9828.The framework was further validated on an independent external dataset,demonstrating consistent performance and robustness across diverse MRI sources.Conclusion:The proposed framework demonstrates strong potential for multiclass brain tumor classification by effectively combining segmentation and classification.This segmentation-driven approach not only enhances predictive accuracy but also improves interpretability,making it more suitable for clinical applications.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42171071)Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(202401AT070190)+5 种基金the Top-notch Young Talents Project of Yunnan Provincial“Ten Thousand Talents Program”(YNWR-QNBJ-2020-293)CAS“Light of West China”ProgramKey Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(ZDBS-LY-7001)the Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program:Yunling Scholar Project(XDYC-YLXZ-2024-0021)the Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China(No.2019FY100900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China,key international(regional)cooperative research project(No.31720103903)。
摘要Over the past decade,phylogenomics has significantly enhanced our understanding of relationships among numerous angiosperm lineages.However,comprehensive phylogenetic studies combining broad sampling of both genomic sequences and taxa within the nettle family(Urticaceae)are still lacking.Here,we reconstructed the phylogeny of Urticaceae(345 species across 89% of accepted genera)using concatenated and coalescent analyses from plastome and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences.Different plastid datasets and tree inference methods yielded a consistent phylogenetic backbone,with 98% of nodes achieving>90% bootstrap support—a significant improvement compared to 54% of nodes in the latest published phylogenetic study of Urticaceae.Plastid and nuclear phylogenetic relationships were largely congruent,with several exceptions that warrant further study.In the context of the updated phylogenetic relationships,we propose dividing the family into seven tribes that correspond to seven major clades or subclades,including a newly established tribe,Sarcochlamydeae stat.nov.Our phylogenetic analysis indicates that Debregeasia and Phenax are non-monophyletic.By combing morphological,molecular and distributional evidence,we describe a new genus Chiajuia gen.nov.Additionally,we propose synonymizing the following genera:Cypholophus(to Boehmeria),Haroldiella(to Pilea),Hemistylus,Neodistemon,Rousselia(all to Pouzolzia),Hesperocnide(to Urtica),and Pellionia(to Elatostema),while recognizing Elatostematoides,Gonostegia,Leptocnide,Margarocarpus,Scepocarpus,and Sceptrocnide as distinct genera.This robust phylogenomic framework and revised classification lays a foundation for future studies on the evolution and ecology of Urticaceae.The approach applied here may also serve as an important reference for other large plant families in angiosperms.
基金Supported by College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program of Jilin University(No.202010183695)。
摘要UAV remote sensing images have the advantages of high spatial resolution,fast speed,strong real-time performance,and convenient operation,etc.,and have become a recently developed,vital means of acquiring surface information.It is an important research task for precision agriculture to make full use of the spectrum,texture,color and other characteristic information of crops,especially the spatial arrangement and structure information of features,to explore effective methods for the classification of multiple varieties of crops.In order to explore the applicability of the object-oriented method to achieve accurate classification of UAV high-resolution images,the paper used the object-oriented classification method in ENVI to classify the UAV high-resolution remote sensing image obtained from the orderly structured 28 species of crops in the test field,which mainly includes image segmentation and object classification.The results showed that the plots obtained after classification were continuous and complete,basically in line with the actual situation,and the overall accuracy of crop classification was 91.73%,with Kappa coefficient of 0.87.Compared with the crop planting area based on remote sensing interpretation and field survey,the area error of 17 species of crops in this study was controlled within 15%,which provides a basis for object-oriented crop classification of UAV remote sensing images.
摘要Accurate skin cancer diagnosis is vital for early treatment and improved patient outcomes.Deep learning models have shown promise in automating skin cancer classification,yet challenges remain due to data scarcity and limited uncertainty awareness.This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of deep learning-based skin lesion classification with transfer learning and UQ on the HAM10000 dataset.We benchmark several pre-trained feature extractors(including Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training(CLIP)variants,ResNet50,DenseNet121,VGG16,EfficientNet-V2-Large,and ConvNeXt Large)combined with traditional classifiers such as SVM,XGBoost,and logistic regression.Multiple PCA settings(64,128,256,512)are explored,with LAION CLIP ViT-H/14 and ViT-L/14 at PCA-256 achieving the strongest baseline results.In the UQ phase,Monte Carlo Dropout(MCD),Ensemble,and Ensemble Monte Carlo Dropout(EMCD)are applied and evaluated using uncertainty-aware metrics(UAcc,USen,USpe,UPre).Ensemble methods with PCA-256 provide the best balance between accuracy and reliability.Further improvements are obtained through feature fusion of top-performing extractors at PCA-256.Finally,we propose a feature-fusion-based model trained with a Predictive Entropy(PE)loss function,which outperforms all prior configurations across both standard and uncertainty-aware evaluations,advancing trustworthy deep learning-based skin cancer diagnosis.
基金supported by the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province,China(Grant No.2024CXGC010905)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42201458 and 52575294).
摘要Field-road classification,a fine-grained form of agricultural machinery operation-mode identification,aims to use Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)trajectory data to assign each trajectory point a semantic label indicating whether the machine is performing field work or travelling on roads.Existing methods struggle with highly imbalanced class distributions,noisy measurements,and intricate spatiotemporal dependencies.This paper presents AgroGeoDB-Net,a unified framework that combines a residual BiLSTM backbone with two tightly coupled innovations:(i)a Density-Aware Local Interpolator(DALI),which balances the minority road class via density-aware interpolation while preserving road-segment structure;and(ii)a geometry-aware training objective that couples a DBSCAN-weighted focal loss with a density-regularised KL divergence,ensuring that both classification and latent representations reflect local trajectory density.The workflow first converts each enriched GNSS point into a 14-dimensional motion-spatial descriptor,projects it into a compact latent space through a variational auto-encoder,and then applies a residual BiLSTM to model bidirectional temporal dependencies before a linear classifier produces point-wise field-road predictions.Experiments on wheat,corn,and paddy datasets show overall accuracies of 98.62%,95.46%,and 93.35%,with consistently stronger road class and overall performance than existing methods.Ablation studies further confirm that both the residual shortcut and DALI contribute positively,with DALI providing the greatest benefit for the minority road class.Tests on the unseen Harvester and Tractor datasets also demonstrate strong generalisation to previously unseen datasets.Taken together,the results show that AgroGeoDB-Net delivers reliable and scalable field-road classification from GNSS trajectories.
摘要Automated classification of seismic events is critical for earthquake monitoring and explosion detection,particularly in tectonically active regions,such as North China,where the waveform features of earthquakes and explosions are highly similar.This study compared feature-based machine learning(ML)and image-based deep learning(DL)methods in event-and stationlevel classification frameworks.The dataset consisted of 1,847 events and more than 43,000 vertical-component waveforms with two input types,40-dimensional feature vectors for ML and spectrogram images for DL.The results showed that the eventlevel models consistently outperformed the station-level models,achieving over 98%accuracy;the station-level models performed well above 94%.On the test set,the ML and DL models exhibited comparable performance;however,the ML models demonstrated better generalization and lower computational demands.In contrast,DL models required fewer manual interventions.The misclassification analysis revealed distinct error patterns across the model types,indicating potential complementarity.These findings highlight the importance of model choice based on the input type,data granularity,and generalization needs.Although DL models are well suited to automated processing,ML approaches provide more robust and efficient solutions for real-world deployment.
基金funded by Fundamental Research Funds of CAF(CAFYBB2023PA003)The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023ZD0406100-03).
摘要Accurate individual tree species classification is essential for forest inventory,management,and conservation.However,existing methods relying primarily on single-source remote sensing data(e.g.,spectral,LiDAR,or RGB)often suffer from insufficient feature representation and noise interference,particularly in subtropical forests with high species diversity,leading to increased classification errors.To address these challenges,we proposed the Multi-source Tree Species Classification Fusion Network(MTSCFNet),a novel deep learning framework that integrates RGB imagery,LiDAR-derived feature maps,and GF-2 satellite data through a modified UNet backbone,which incorporates a three-branch encoder and a Triple Branch Feature Fusion(TBFF)module within a middle fusion strategy.We evaluated the MTSCFNet in Chinese-fir mixed forests located in the Shanxia Forest Farm,Jiangxi Province,China.The results showed that:(1)MTSCFNet outperformed four baseline models,achieving Macro F1(0.78±0.01),Micro F1(0.93±0.01),Weighted F1(0.93±0.01),a Matthews correlation coefficient(MCC)(0.89±0.01),Cohen’sĸ(0.89±0.01),and mIoU(0.69±0.01),with respective improvements of 4.05%in Macro F1,1.89%in Micro F1,0.09%in Weighted F1,1.67%in MCC,1.64%in Cohen’sĸ,and 5.92%in Mean IoU over the second best model,SwinUNet;(2)Compared to the best two-source combinations(R+S,R+L),MTSCFNet achieved up to 1.50%,3.28%,3.42%,6.72%,6.76%,and 3.51%higher Macro F1,Micro F1,Weighted F1,MCC,Cohen’sĸ,and mIoU,and up to 8.11%,2.63%,2.88%,5.01%,4.99%,and 11.48%improvements over single-source inputs,while also exhibiting the lowest variability,indicating strong robustness;(3)Under different fusion strategies,MTSCFNet with middle fusion surpassed early and late fusion by up to 15.31%,3.74%,3.99%,7.66%,7.76%,22.33%and 24.13%,5.76%,6.20%,11.48%,11.57%,32.96%in Macro F1,Micro F1,Weighted F1,MCC,Cohen’sĸ,and mIoU,respectively,validating the effectiveness of feature-level multi-modal integration;(4)In cross-region transfer experiments,MTSCFNet demonstrated strong spatial generalizability,achieving average scores of 0.78(Macro F1),0.87(Micro F1),0.86(Weighted F1),0.59(MCC),0.59(Cohen’sĸ),and 0.68(mIoU),and outperformed SwinUNet by up to 38.80%,9.40%,18.58%,22.48%,26.17%,and 33.00%in Macro F1,Micro F1,Weighted F1,MCC,Cohen’sĸ,and mIoU across varying forest densities.Overall,MTSCFNet offers a robust,accurate,and transferable solution for tree species classification in complex subtropical forest environments.
基金funded by the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University under grant No.(DGSSR-2025-02-01296).
摘要Skin diseases affect millions worldwide.Early detection is key to preventing disfigurement,lifelong disability,or death.Dermoscopic images acquired in primary-care settings show high intra-class visual similarity and severe class imbalance,and occasional imaging artifacts can create ambiguity for state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks(CNNs).We frame skin lesion recognition as graph-based reasoning and,to ensure fair evaluation and avoid data leakage,adopt a strict lesion-level partitioning strategy.Each image is first over-segmented using SLIC(Simple Linear Iterative Clustering)to produce perceptually homogeneous superpixels.These superpixels form the nodes of a region-adjacency graph whose edges encode spatial continuity.Node attributes are 1280-dimensional embeddings extracted with a lightweight yet expressive EfficientNet-B0 backbone,providing strong representational power at modest computational cost.The resulting graphs are processed by a five-layer Graph Attention Network(GAT)that learns to weight inter-node relationships dynamically and aggregates multi-hop context before classifying lesions into seven classes with a log-softmax output.Extensive experiments on the DermaMNIST benchmark show the proposed pipeline achieves 88.35%accuracy and 98.04%AUC,outperforming contemporary CNNs,AutoML approaches,and alternative graph neural networks.An ablation study indicates EfficientNet-B0 produces superior node descriptors compared with ResNet-18 and DenseNet,and that roughly five GAT layers strike a good balance between being too shallow and over-deep while avoiding oversmoothing.The method requires no data augmentation or external metadata,making it a drop-in upgrade for clinical computer-aided diagnosis systems.
基金supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of Chinaunder(Grant 2021YFB3101100)in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaunder(Grant 42461057),(Grant 62272123),and(Grant 42371470)+1 种基金in part by the Fundamental Research Program of Shanxi Province under(Grant 202303021212164)in part by the Postgraduate Education Innovation Program of Shanxi Province under(Grant 2024KY474).
摘要Recently,large-scale deep learning models have been increasingly adopted for point cloud classification.However,thesemethods typically require collecting extensive datasets frommultiple clients,which may lead to privacy leaks.Federated learning provides an effective solution to data leakage by eliminating the need for data transmission,relying instead on the exchange of model parameters.However,the uneven distribution of client data can still affect the model’s ability to generalize effectively.To address these challenges,we propose a new framework for point cloud classification called Federated Dynamic Aggregation Selection Strategy-based Multi-Receptive Field Fusion Classification Framework(FDASS-MRFCF).Specifically,we tackle these challenges with two key innovations:(1)During the client local training phase,we propose a Multi-Receptive Field Fusion Classification Model(MRFCM),which captures local and global structures in point cloud data through dynamic convolution and multi-scale feature fusion,enhancing the robustness of point cloud classification.(2)In the server aggregation phase,we introduce a Federated Dynamic Aggregation Selection Strategy(FDASS),which employs a hybrid strategy to average client model parameters,skip aggregation,or reallocate local models to different clients,thereby balancing global consistency and local diversity.We evaluate our framework using the ModelNet40 and ShapeNetPart benchmarks,demonstrating its effectiveness.The proposed method is expected to significantly advance the field of point cloud classification in a secure environment.
基金financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52225904,52039007,and 42377144)the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(2023NSFSC0377)supported by the New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE。
摘要Automatic identification of microseismic(MS)signals is crucial for early disaster warning in deep underground engineering.However,three major challenges remain for practical deployment,namely limited resources,severe noise interference,and data scarcity.To address these issues,this study proposes the lightweight and robust entropy-regularized unsupervised domain adaptation framework(LRE-UDAF)for cross-domain MS signal classification.The framework comprises a lightweight and robust feature extractor and an unsupervised domain adaptation(UDA)module utilizing a bi-classifier disparity metric and entropy regularization.The feature extractor derives high-level representations from the preprocessed signals,which are subsequently fed into two classifiers to predict class probability.Through three-stage adversarial learning,the feature extractor and classifiers progressively align the distributions of the source and target domains,facilitating knowledge transfer from the labeled source to the unlabeled target domain.Source-domain experiments reveal that the feature extractor achieves high effectiveness,with a classification accuracy of up to 97.7%.Moreover,LRE-UDAF outperforms prevalent industry networks in terms of its lightweight design and robustness.Cross-domain experiments indicate that the proposed UDA method effectively mitigates domain shift with minimal unlabeled signals.Ablation and comparative experiments further validate the design effectiveness of the feature extractor and UDA modules.This framework presents an efficient solution for resource-constrained,noise-prone,and data-scarce environments in deep underground engineering,offering significant promise for practical implementations in early disaster warning.
基金Projects(52504155,52374147,52274099)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2023YFC3804204)supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China+1 种基金Project(2024M753531)supported by the China Postdoctoral Science FoundationProject(2024ZB853)supported by the Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent,China。
摘要Accurate identification of crack types in rock masses is critical for understanding damage mechanisms and ensuring the structural safety of rock engineering.This study presents a novel unsupervised classification framework based on Gaussian mixture modeling(GMM)for distinguishing acoustic emission(AE)signatures associated with different fracture modes in sandstone samples that contain prefabricated fissures at varying inclination angles.The frequency-domain characteristics of the AE signals were extracted using fast Fourier transform(FFT),while the RA-AF ratio(rise time/amplitude versus average frequency)parameter space was employed to characterize the crack mechanisms.To increase classification accuracy and model robustness,the Bayesian information criterion(BIC)was introduced to determine the optimal number of Gaussian components.Experimental results from uniaxial compression tests reveal that fissure inclination significantly affects crack evolution behavior:low-angle fissures favor shear and hybrid cracks,whereas high-angle fissures cause tensile failure.The proposed GMM-based method effectively identifies tensile,shear,and hybrid cracks with increased objectivity and accuracy,outperforming traditional empirical RA-AF thresholding techniques.This research provides a reliable and generalizable approach for AE signal classification,which presents theoretical insights and practical support for real-time monitoring,early warning,and structural health assessment in fractured rock masses.
基金The Science and Technology Basic Investigation Program of China,No.2022FY202404。
摘要Climate change and anthropogenic activities have profoundly affected coastal systems,making geomorphological research a critical focus for coastal protection and sustainable development.In this study,a comprehensive classification of beach states around Hainan Island is conducted for the first time by utilizing theΩ-RTR model and geological control modes.Six distinct classic beach states ranging from dissipative to reflective are identified:barred dissipative beaches or no-barred dissipative beaches(BD or NBD),barred beaches(B),low-tide terrace or low-tide bar with rip(LTTR or LTBR),and reflective state(R).Among these,the BD and B types are predominant on Hainan Island.Notably,the beach states are subject to multiple factors,such as hydrodynamic forcings,geomorphic features and underlying substrates,and exhibit remarkable spatiotemporal variability.During extreme events,hydrodynamic forcings impact beach states more substantially than geological and geomorphic features do,leading to a more homogeneous distribution of beach states.Under normal circumstance,beach states are predominantly controlled by geological and geomorphic features.Coastal geological and geomorphic features have a pronounced influence on beach morphology and stability.For example,hard substrates underpin wide and stable dissipative beaches,whereas softer substrates lead to narrower,erosion-prone beaches.Three geological control modes are identified,namely,gently sloping hard substrates with dissipative beaches,moderately sloping hard substrates with seasonally variable reflective beaches,and steeply sloping soft substrates with dynamic sandbar-dominated beaches.These findings highlight the necessity of integrating geological settings in tandem with hydrodynamic forcings into coastal management practices.A dual-mode strategy is proposed:maintaining geomorphic self-organization on hard-substrate coasts under normal conditions and implementing hybrid engineering–ecological measures(e.g.,artificial sand replenishment and vegetation restoration)on erosion-prone soft substrates.
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42571210,42201181)Jilin Provincial Department of Education Science and Technology Research Project(No.JJKH20231307KJ)。
摘要Border areas are important spaces for national security and opening up to the outside world,and the level of population security in these areas is related to border stability and regional sustainable development.Northeast China is a typical area of population shrinkage,and the problem of population shrinkage in border areas is even more prominent.Against the backdrop of population shrinkage,this paper takes 45 border counties(cities,districts)in Northeast China as an example,and uses the entropy method and multiple linear regression to assess the population security level in border areas and explore its influencing factors.The study found that:1)from 2010 to 2020,the population of the northeast border area continuously declined and entered a stage of overall population shrinkage,with a total decrease of approximately 1.34 million over the decade.In particular,the border areas of Jilin Province experienced the widest and most severe population shrinkage.2)The population security level in the northeast border area generally declined and exhibited significant spatial differentiation.Areas with relatively high population security were mainly concentrated in the northeast border areas of Heilongjiang Province,where openness and industrial development were relatively strong,whereas areas with low population security were concentrated in parts of the border areas of Jilin Province and Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture,where population loss was severe and the level of openness was relatively low.3)Population security types can be classified into three categories:security stability,security improvement,and security decline,with the security decline type accounting for nearly one-third of the study area.4)Population security is not solely determined by population size,but rather by the coordinated relationship among population quantity,structure,and regional development capacity.Economic development is the key factor affecting population security.Economic indicators such as nighttime light index and the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries have significant positive effects on population security,while natural and administrative factors also play certain roles.Finally,this study proposes differentiated governance strategies for different types of areas,with the aim of improving the population security level and maintaining border stability in the northeast border area.
基金Future Artificial Intelligence Research(FAIR)project(PE0000013-CUP B53C22003630006),Spoke 3-Resilient AI,within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan(PNRR)of the Italian Ministry of University and Research(MUR).
摘要Fruit diseases significantly impact agricultural productivity,yet automated detection systems often fail to provide interpretable predictions and are sensitive to background variations in images,particularly in orange fruit disease datasets.Current deep learning approaches are prone to background bias,which reduces explainability and generalization.To address this,we propose a deep learning framework that explicitly reduces background noise and bias in orange fruit disease image classification while providing interpretable,pixel-level predictions.The framework integrates existing architectural components,including grouped convolutions with channel shuffling,Leaky ReLU and clipped ReLU activations,and attention-based feature extraction,within a bias-aware design motivated by explainability analysis.The contribution lies in the problem-driven integration of these components and a background standardization preprocessing step to improve explanation reliability.A Grid Search algorithm is used to optimize the hyperparameters.Data augmentation is applied to enhance generalization.We used perceptual hashing to ensure no duplicate images existed between training and testing sets,thereby preventing data leakage and maintaining dataset integrity.For interpretability,we employ Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations(LIME);however,initial explanations highlighted irrelevant background regions.To address this,we introduce a novel preprocessing step using the GrabCut algorithm and morphological operations to standardize image backgrounds,ensuring explanations focus solely on diseased regions.Unlike existing methods,our background standardization technique,based on GrabCut and white background standardization,improves the relevance of LIME explanations by reducing background-focused attributions from 62.2%to 7.7%of cases,while yielding modest,consistent improvements in classification accuracy(0.15%–0.24%).We further evaluate DeepOrangeNet’s feature extraction by classifying its learned representations using six classifiers,including linear discriminant analysis,fine decision tree,Gaussian Naive Bayes,fine k-nearest neighbors,linear support vector machine,and logistic regression,demonstrating its superior adaptability.DeepOrangeNet has been compared with the state-of-the-art methods,proving not only its accuracy but also its explainable and lightweight architecture for real-world agricultural implementation.
基金the Key Laboratory of Higher Education of Sichuan Province for Enterprise Informationalization and Internet of Things(No.2022WZJ02)the Nature Science Foundation of Sichuan University of Science&Engineering(No.2020RC32)+1 种基金the Graduate Course Construction Project of Sichuan University of Science&Engineering,Supported by the Opening Fund of Ar-tificial Intelligence Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province(No.2023RYY02)the Graduate Course Construc-tion Project of Sichuan University of Science&Engi-neering(Nos.AL202213 and SZ202310)。
摘要Remote sensing image classification using deep learning methods faces challenges such as high complexity,significant computational demands,and inefficiency on resource-constrained devices,while also being affected by issues like class similarity and spatial distribution.Current convolutional neural networks rely on stacking small convolutional kernels for feature learning,which results in relatively low classification accuracy,while their dependence on centralized learning architectures with high-performance GPUs/CPUs incurs substantial training costs.Therefore,this paper proposes a distributed rapid classification method for high-similarity natural scene remote sensing images using an improved VGG19 model(RS-VGG19)that combines residual connections and attention mechanisms.By introducing residual connections,the method improves training convergence speed and high-level feature learning ability,effectively preventing gradient vanishing during training.Embedding the SENet visual attention module in the tenth convolution layer allows the model to more specifically extract similar and significant features in remote sensing images.By employing a combination of cross-entropy and center loss functions,the model is able to learn features with reduced intra-class variance and increased inter-class variance,further enhancing classification accuracy.The distributed inference framework Spark is employed for decentralized model training,storing large-scale remote sensing images in the distributed file system HDFS,and accessing the pre-trained RS-VGG19 model in Docker containers on cluster nodes for distributed inference and classification using PySpark.Experimental results show that on two commonly used high-similarity remote sensing image datasets,NWPU-RESISC45 and UCMerced Land-Use,the RS-VGG19 model improves classification accuracy by 6.57%and 8.76%respectively compared to the original VGG19 model,and significantly enhances accuracy compared to other related classification models.This demonstrates the superior performance of the proposed structure and loss function fusion strategy in remote sensing image classification tasks.On the large-scale remote sensing image inference dataset NWPU-RESISC45,while maintaining classification accuracy,the distributed inference framework achieved a speedup of 11.9 when using six nodes,an improvement of 98.33%over theoretical linear speedup(6.00),reducing dependency on high-end hardware resources and significantly improving the classification speed of high-similarity natural scene remote sensing images.