KEYWORDS: Lung, Computed tomography, 3D modeling, 3D image processing, Feature extraction, Education and training, Matrices, Data modeling, Convolution, Performance modeling
As the population ages, early diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases become increasingly important. Accurate assessment of aging-related changes in lung CT images is crucial for the prevention and treatment of related diseases. Traditional methods for lung aging assessment from CT images are time-consuming, subjective, and heavily reliant on the clinical experience of doctors. To address these issues, this paper proposes a lung aging assessment method with 3D-CA Net. The feature extraction part of the proposed network consists of four main 3D Convolutional and Composite Multidimensional Attention Modules. By introducing the Composite Multidimensional Attention Module, the advantages of spatial attention and self-attention are both utilized. Additionally, an improved E-cross-entropy loss function is employed to reduce overfitting and enhance generalization. Experimental results demonstrate that the 3D-CA Net significantly outperforms existing methods in terms of accuracy, macro-averaged precision, macro-averaged recall and macro-averaged F1 score. This work provides a comprehensive solution for lung CT image aging assessment and offers insights for future advancements in medical imaging analysis.
The PETSc (Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation) library is one of the fundamental general-purpose numerical libraries in high-performance computing environments. It is widely employed for solving problems related to partial differential equations, sparse linear algebra, and other related issues. PETSc plays a crucial role in assisting developers in rapidly creating parallel programs, thereby enhancing the computational efficiency of high-performance computing. This paper initially ports the PETSc program onto the SW26010-pro processor. Following that, we choose a representative solver from the KSP module of PETSc. Addressing four hotspot functions invoked by this solver, we implement many-core optimization for its execution under the Sunway heterogeneous architecture. The experimental results show that the maximum speedup on a single node can reach 62.3 after many-core optimizations of core hotspot functions. This indicates that the many-core optimization of hotspot functions for PETSc linear solvers demonstrates excellent parallel efficiency on the Sunway supercomputer.
Gastric cancer is a serious health threat and pathological images are an important criterion in its diagnosis. These images can help doctors accurately identify cancerous regions and provide important evidence for clinical decision-making. Thanks to the remarkable achievements of deep learning technology in the field of image processing, an increasing number of superior image segmentation models have emerged. The Swin-Unet model has achieved great success in the field of image segmentation. However, when applied to the image segmentation of gastric cancer pathological section data, the segmentation boundary appears jagged. We have put forth two potential solutions. Initially, we devised an attention connection module to supplant the skip connections within the model, thereby enhancing the model’s predictive precision. Subsequently, we engineered a prognostic processing unit that inputs the model’s predictive outcomes and employs a Conditional Random Field (CRF) for further predictive computations. The enhanced model increases the DSC by 2% and decreases the HD by 17%. Additionally, the issue of jagged boundaries in prediction results has been better optimized. We conducted comparative and ablation experiments, and the results showed that our improved method increased the accuracy of the model’s predictions and reduced the jaggedness of the results at the boundary.
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