This study explored the application value of iterative decomposition of water and fatwith echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation(IDEAL-IQ)technology in the early diagnosis of ageing osteoporosis(OP).172 participa...This study explored the application value of iterative decomposition of water and fatwith echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation(IDEAL-IQ)technology in the early diagnosis of ageing osteoporosis(OP).172 participants were enrolled and underwentmagnetic resonance imaging(MRI)examinations on a 3.0T scanner.100 cases were included in the normal group(50 males and 50 females;mean age:45 years;age range:20e84 years).33 cases were included in the osteopenia group(17 males and 16 females;mean age:55 years;age range:43e83 years).39 caseswere includedintheOP group(19males and20females;meanage:58years;age range:48 e82 years).Conventional T1WI and T2WI were first obtained,followed by 3D-IDEAL-IQ-acqui-sition.Fat fraction(FF)and apparent transverse relaxation rate(R2*)resultswere automatically calculated from IDEAL-IQ-images on the console.Based on T1Wand T2W-images,300 ROIs for each participantweremanually delineated in L1-L5 vertebral bodies of five middle slices.In each age group of all normal subjects,each parameter was significantly correlated with gender.In male participants from the normal,osteopenia,and OP groups,statistical analysis revealed F values of 11319.292 and 180.130 for comparisons involving FF and R2*values,respectively(all p<0.0001).The sensitivity and specificity of FF values were 0.906 and 0.950,0.994 and 0.997,0.865 and 0.820,respectively.For R2*,they were 0.665 and 0.616,0.563 and 0.519,0.571 and 0.368,respectively.In female participants from the normal,osteopenia,and OP-groups,statis-tical analysis revealed F values of 12461.658 and 548.274 for comparisons involving FF and R2*values,respectively(all p<0.0001).The sensitivity and specificity of FF values were 0.985 and 0.991,0.996 and 0.996,0.581 and 0.678,respectively.For R2*,they were 0.698 and 0.730,0.603 and 0.665,0.622 and 0.525,respectively.Significant differences were indicated in the quanti-tative values among the three groups.FF value had good performance,while R2*value had poor performance indiscriminatingosteopenia andOP-groups.Overall,the IDEAL-IQ techniqueoffers specific reference indices that enable noninvasive and quantitative assessment of lumbar vertebrae bone metabolism,thereby providing diagnostic information for OP.展开更多
This paper addresses the problem of channel estimation in 5G-enabled vehicular-to-vehicular(V2V) channels with high-mobility environments and non-stationary feature. Considering orthogonal frequency division multiplex...This paper addresses the problem of channel estimation in 5G-enabled vehicular-to-vehicular(V2V) channels with high-mobility environments and non-stationary feature. Considering orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) system, we perform extended Kalman filter(EKF) for channel estimation in conjunction with Iterative Detector & Decoder(IDD) at the receiver to improve the estimation accuracy. The EKF is proposed for jointly estimating the channel frequency response and the time-varying time correlation coefficients. And the IDD structure is adopted to reduce the estimation errors in EKF. The simulation results show that, compared with traditional methods, the proposed method effectively promotes the system performance.展开更多
In this letter,we investigate the individual channel estimation for the classical distributed-space-time-coding(DSTC) based one-way relay network(OWRN) under the superimposed training framework.Without resorting to th...In this letter,we investigate the individual channel estimation for the classical distributed-space-time-coding(DSTC) based one-way relay network(OWRN) under the superimposed training framework.Without resorting to the composite channel estimation,as did in traditional work,we directly estimate the individual channels from the maximum likelihood(ML) and the maximum a posteriori(MAP) estimators.We derive the closed-form ML estimators with the orthogonal training designing.Due to the complicated structure of the MAP in-channel estimator,we design an iterative gradient descent estimation process to find the optimal solutions.Numerical results are provided to corroborate our studies.展开更多
Let X be a d-dimensional random vector with unknown density function f(z) = f (z1, ..., z(d)), and let f(n) be teh nearest neighbor estimator of f proposed by Loftsgaarden and Quesenberry (1965). In this paper, we est...Let X be a d-dimensional random vector with unknown density function f(z) = f (z1, ..., z(d)), and let f(n) be teh nearest neighbor estimator of f proposed by Loftsgaarden and Quesenberry (1965). In this paper, we established the law of the iterated logarithm of f(n) for general case of d greater-than-or-equal-to 1, which gives the exact pointwise strong convergence rate of f(n).展开更多
[ Objective] The research aimed to study application of the attenuation correction technology in C-band radar precipitation estimation. [ Method~ Based on CINRAD-CB radar data in Shaanxi, we conducted the attenuation ...[ Objective] The research aimed to study application of the attenuation correction technology in C-band radar precipitation estimation. [ Method~ Based on CINRAD-CB radar data in Shaanxi, we conducted the attenuation correction experiment by using iteration method and Kufa method respectively. Moreover, we conducted application expedment of the Kufa attenuation correction method in the quantitative precipitation esti- mation. [ Result~ Attenuation correction technology could compensate for attenuation problem of the echo at the distant range. Calculation result of the iteration method finally tended to that of the Kufa method. Moreover, iteration method spent more time. Therefore, Kufa attenuation correction technology was more suitable for business operation. When strong echo was near radar, generated attenuation was more obvious, and application value of the attenuation correction was bigger. Attenuation correction technology was used for quantitative precipitation estimation, which was favor- able for improving accuracy of the precipitation estimation. But we should conduct detailed planning on calculation scheme of the precipitation esti- mation because that different calculation schemes had great influences on accuracy of the quantitative precipitation estimation. [ Cendusien] This research provided a basis for improving accuracy of the quantitative precipitation estimation in Shaanxi. Key words Attenuation correction展开更多
Filter bank multicarrier(FBMC)systems with offset quadrature amplitude modulation(OQAM)need long data blocks to achieve high spectral efficiency.However,the transmission of long data blocks in underwater acoustic(UWA)...Filter bank multicarrier(FBMC)systems with offset quadrature amplitude modulation(OQAM)need long data blocks to achieve high spectral efficiency.However,the transmission of long data blocks in underwater acoustic(UWA)communication systems often encounters the challenge of time-varying channels.This paper proposes a time-varying channel tracking method for short-range high-rate UWA FBMC-OQAM communication applications.First,a known preamble is used to initialize the channel estimation at the initial time of the signal block.Next,the estimated channel is applied to detect data symbols at several symbol periods.The detected data symbols are then reused as new pilots to estimate the next time channel.In the above steps,the unified transmission matrix model is extended to describe the time-varying channel input-output model in this paper and is used for symbol detection.Simulation results show that the channel tracking error can be reduced to less than−20 dB when the channel temporal coherence coefficient exceeds 0.75 within one block period of FBMC-OQAM signals.Compared with conventional known-pilot-based methods,the proposed method needs lower system overhead while exhibiting similar time-varying channel tracking performance.The sea trial results further proved the practicability of the proposed method.展开更多
To break through the limitations of traditional discriminators used in vector tracking loops, this paper presents an iterative maximum likelihood estimation(IMLE) method for extracting navigation state errors from mul...To break through the limitations of traditional discriminators used in vector tracking loops, this paper presents an iterative maximum likelihood estimation(IMLE) method for extracting navigation state errors from multi-satellite signals. The IMLE method takes into account both computational cost and estimation accuracy. The associated gradient vector and Hessian matrix of the MLE cost function are derived. The characteristics of the proposed joint discriminator are analyzed based on the properties of the MLE cost function,gradient vector, and Hessian matrix. The effectiveness of IMLE is verified by Monte Carlo simulation.展开更多
Reasonable bit error rate performance requires perfect channel state information （CSI） in traditional turbo equalization （TE）, which is hard to obtain in practice. Soft and hard iterative algorithms have been deve...Reasonable bit error rate performance requires perfect channel state information （CSI） in traditional turbo equalization （TE）, which is hard to obtain in practice. Soft and hard iterative algorithms have been developed to address the channel estimation problem with the performance of the soft iteratwe channel estimate based on the recursive least square algorithm. This paper presents an analysis of the performance of hard iterative channel estimation （HICE） based on the least mean square algorithm. The analysis uses a cost function with the hard decision on the TE output. An iterative channel correction （ICC） algorithm based on the gradient descent algorithm is used to iteratively minimize the cost function. The simulation results agree with the theoretical lower bound for the mean square error （MSE） of the estimated channels. Simulations show that, given an imperfect CSI with an MSE below the upper bound, the linear minimum mean squared error TE （LMMSE-TE） using the ICC has only small performance degradation compared to that with a perfect CSI, while the traditional LMMSE-TE suffers from severe error floor effect even with more iterations.展开更多
In many fields, we need to deal with hierarchically structured data.For this kind of data, hierarchical mixed effects model can show the correlationof variables in the same level by establishing a model for regression...In many fields, we need to deal with hierarchically structured data.For this kind of data, hierarchical mixed effects model can show the correlationof variables in the same level by establishing a model for regression coefficients.Due to the complexity of the random part in this model, seeking an effectivemethod to estimate the covariance matrix is an appealing issue. Iterative generalizedleast squares estimation method was proposed by Goldstein in 1986 and wasapplied in special case of hierarchical model. In this paper, we extend themethod to the general hierarchical mixed effects model, derive its expressions indetail and apply it to economic examples.展开更多
<div style="text-align:justify;"> As a generalized sensor, the RPC model with its accuracy equally matches the physical sensor model. Moreover, the accurate positioning combining with the flexibility i...<div style="text-align:justify;"> As a generalized sensor, the RPC model with its accuracy equally matches the physical sensor model. Moreover, the accurate positioning combining with the flexibility in application leads the RPC model to be the priority in photogrammetry processing. Generally, the RPC model is calculated through a control grid. Different RPC parameters solving methods and the operation efficiency all serve as variables in the accuracy of the model. In this paper, the ridge estimation iterative method, spectrum correction iteration, and conjugate gradient method are employed to solve RPC parameters;the accuracy and efficiency of three solving methods are analyzed and compared. The results show that ridge estimation iterative method and spectrum correction iteration have obvious advantages in accuracy. The ridge estimation iterative method has fewer iteration times and time con-sumption, and spectrum correction iteration has more stable precision. </div>展开更多
Since the paper of Box and Meyer who first considered the identification and estimation of dispersion effects from unreplicated factorial experiments,various different methods（both iterative and non-iterative） have ...Since the paper of Box and Meyer who first considered the identification and estimation of dispersion effects from unreplicated factorial experiments,various different methods（both iterative and non-iterative） have been proposed for estimating dispersion effects.An overview of various methods was given by Brenneman and Nair and they showed that the modified Harvey（MH） method is better than other methods.For a log-linear or multiplicative model,a non-iterative estimation method of dispersion effects based on residuals averaging from multiple location effect models is proposed in model selection stage,which has been shown smaller Mean Square Errors（MSE） than the MH method in majority of simulated models.And it can apply to the situations with zero or small absolute residuals,but the MH method will be failure.The properties of this estimator are also considered.A real example is used to illustrate the results.展开更多
基金supported by the Planned Project Grant(Grant No.3502Z20199064)from the Science and Technology Bureau of Xiamen(CN)the training project(Grant No.2020GGB067)of the youth and middle-aged talents of Fujian Provincial Health Commission(CN).
文摘This study explored the application value of iterative decomposition of water and fatwith echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation(IDEAL-IQ)technology in the early diagnosis of ageing osteoporosis(OP).172 participants were enrolled and underwentmagnetic resonance imaging(MRI)examinations on a 3.0T scanner.100 cases were included in the normal group(50 males and 50 females;mean age:45 years;age range:20e84 years).33 cases were included in the osteopenia group(17 males and 16 females;mean age:55 years;age range:43e83 years).39 caseswere includedintheOP group(19males and20females;meanage:58years;age range:48 e82 years).Conventional T1WI and T2WI were first obtained,followed by 3D-IDEAL-IQ-acqui-sition.Fat fraction(FF)and apparent transverse relaxation rate(R2*)resultswere automatically calculated from IDEAL-IQ-images on the console.Based on T1Wand T2W-images,300 ROIs for each participantweremanually delineated in L1-L5 vertebral bodies of five middle slices.In each age group of all normal subjects,each parameter was significantly correlated with gender.In male participants from the normal,osteopenia,and OP groups,statistical analysis revealed F values of 11319.292 and 180.130 for comparisons involving FF and R2*values,respectively(all p<0.0001).The sensitivity and specificity of FF values were 0.906 and 0.950,0.994 and 0.997,0.865 and 0.820,respectively.For R2*,they were 0.665 and 0.616,0.563 and 0.519,0.571 and 0.368,respectively.In female participants from the normal,osteopenia,and OP-groups,statis-tical analysis revealed F values of 12461.658 and 548.274 for comparisons involving FF and R2*values,respectively(all p<0.0001).The sensitivity and specificity of FF values were 0.985 and 0.991,0.996 and 0.996,0.581 and 0.678,respectively.For R2*,they were 0.698 and 0.730,0.603 and 0.665,0.622 and 0.525,respectively.Significant differences were indicated in the quanti-tative values among the three groups.FF value had good performance,while R2*value had poor performance indiscriminatingosteopenia andOP-groups.Overall,the IDEAL-IQ techniqueoffers specific reference indices that enable noninvasive and quantitative assessment of lumbar vertebrae bone metabolism,thereby providing diagnostic information for OP.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61501066,No.61572088,No.61701063)Chongqing Frontier and Applied Basic Research Project (No.cstc2015jcyjA40003,No.cstc2017jcyjAX0026,No.cstc2016jcyjA0209)+1 种基金the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks (No.ISN16-03)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.106112017CDJXY 500001)
文摘This paper addresses the problem of channel estimation in 5G-enabled vehicular-to-vehicular(V2V) channels with high-mobility environments and non-stationary feature. Considering orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) system, we perform extended Kalman filter(EKF) for channel estimation in conjunction with Iterative Detector & Decoder(IDD) at the receiver to improve the estimation accuracy. The EKF is proposed for jointly estimating the channel frequency response and the time-varying time correlation coefficients. And the IDD structure is adopted to reduce the estimation errors in EKF. The simulation results show that, compared with traditional methods, the proposed method effectively promotes the system performance.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant(61072067,61372076,61401332)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2014M552415)+1 种基金the Postdoctoral Science Special Foundation of China(2015T81006)the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities,China(Grant No. B08038)
文摘In this letter,we investigate the individual channel estimation for the classical distributed-space-time-coding(DSTC) based one-way relay network(OWRN) under the superimposed training framework.Without resorting to the composite channel estimation,as did in traditional work,we directly estimate the individual channels from the maximum likelihood(ML) and the maximum a posteriori(MAP) estimators.We derive the closed-form ML estimators with the orthogonal training designing.Due to the complicated structure of the MAP in-channel estimator,we design an iterative gradient descent estimation process to find the optimal solutions.Numerical results are provided to corroborate our studies.
基金Research supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘Let X be a d-dimensional random vector with unknown density function f(z) = f (z1, ..., z(d)), and let f(n) be teh nearest neighbor estimator of f proposed by Loftsgaarden and Quesenberry (1965). In this paper, we established the law of the iterated logarithm of f(n) for general case of d greater-than-or-equal-to 1, which gives the exact pointwise strong convergence rate of f(n).
文摘[ Objective] The research aimed to study application of the attenuation correction technology in C-band radar precipitation estimation. [ Method~ Based on CINRAD-CB radar data in Shaanxi, we conducted the attenuation correction experiment by using iteration method and Kufa method respectively. Moreover, we conducted application expedment of the Kufa attenuation correction method in the quantitative precipitation esti- mation. [ Result~ Attenuation correction technology could compensate for attenuation problem of the echo at the distant range. Calculation result of the iteration method finally tended to that of the Kufa method. Moreover, iteration method spent more time. Therefore, Kufa attenuation correction technology was more suitable for business operation. When strong echo was near radar, generated attenuation was more obvious, and application value of the attenuation correction was bigger. Attenuation correction technology was used for quantitative precipitation estimation, which was favor- able for improving accuracy of the precipitation estimation. But we should conduct detailed planning on calculation scheme of the precipitation esti- mation because that different calculation schemes had great influences on accuracy of the quantitative precipitation estimation. [ Cendusien] This research provided a basis for improving accuracy of the quantitative precipitation estimation in Shaanxi. Key words Attenuation correction
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62171405,62225114 and 62101489.
文摘Filter bank multicarrier(FBMC)systems with offset quadrature amplitude modulation(OQAM)need long data blocks to achieve high spectral efficiency.However,the transmission of long data blocks in underwater acoustic(UWA)communication systems often encounters the challenge of time-varying channels.This paper proposes a time-varying channel tracking method for short-range high-rate UWA FBMC-OQAM communication applications.First,a known preamble is used to initialize the channel estimation at the initial time of the signal block.Next,the estimated channel is applied to detect data symbols at several symbol periods.The detected data symbols are then reused as new pilots to estimate the next time channel.In the above steps,the unified transmission matrix model is extended to describe the time-varying channel input-output model in this paper and is used for symbol detection.Simulation results show that the channel tracking error can be reduced to less than−20 dB when the channel temporal coherence coefficient exceeds 0.75 within one block period of FBMC-OQAM signals.Compared with conventional known-pilot-based methods,the proposed method needs lower system overhead while exhibiting similar time-varying channel tracking performance.The sea trial results further proved the practicability of the proposed method.
基金supported by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863)(Grant No.2013AA1548)
文摘To break through the limitations of traditional discriminators used in vector tracking loops, this paper presents an iterative maximum likelihood estimation(IMLE) method for extracting navigation state errors from multi-satellite signals. The IMLE method takes into account both computational cost and estimation accuracy. The associated gradient vector and Hessian matrix of the MLE cost function are derived. The characteristics of the proposed joint discriminator are analyzed based on the properties of the MLE cost function,gradient vector, and Hessian matrix. The effectiveness of IMLE is verified by Monte Carlo simulation.
基金Supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development (863) Program of China
文摘Reasonable bit error rate performance requires perfect channel state information （CSI） in traditional turbo equalization （TE）, which is hard to obtain in practice. Soft and hard iterative algorithms have been developed to address the channel estimation problem with the performance of the soft iteratwe channel estimate based on the recursive least square algorithm. This paper presents an analysis of the performance of hard iterative channel estimation （HICE） based on the least mean square algorithm. The analysis uses a cost function with the hard decision on the TE output. An iterative channel correction （ICC） algorithm based on the gradient descent algorithm is used to iteratively minimize the cost function. The simulation results agree with the theoretical lower bound for the mean square error （MSE） of the estimated channels. Simulations show that, given an imperfect CSI with an MSE below the upper bound, the linear minimum mean squared error TE （LMMSE-TE） using the ICC has only small performance degradation compared to that with a perfect CSI, while the traditional LMMSE-TE suffers from severe error floor effect even with more iterations.
文摘In many fields, we need to deal with hierarchically structured data.For this kind of data, hierarchical mixed effects model can show the correlationof variables in the same level by establishing a model for regression coefficients.Due to the complexity of the random part in this model, seeking an effectivemethod to estimate the covariance matrix is an appealing issue. Iterative generalizedleast squares estimation method was proposed by Goldstein in 1986 and wasapplied in special case of hierarchical model. In this paper, we extend themethod to the general hierarchical mixed effects model, derive its expressions indetail and apply it to economic examples.
文摘<div style="text-align:justify;"> As a generalized sensor, the RPC model with its accuracy equally matches the physical sensor model. Moreover, the accurate positioning combining with the flexibility in application leads the RPC model to be the priority in photogrammetry processing. Generally, the RPC model is calculated through a control grid. Different RPC parameters solving methods and the operation efficiency all serve as variables in the accuracy of the model. In this paper, the ridge estimation iterative method, spectrum correction iteration, and conjugate gradient method are employed to solve RPC parameters;the accuracy and efficiency of three solving methods are analyzed and compared. The results show that ridge estimation iterative method and spectrum correction iteration have obvious advantages in accuracy. The ridge estimation iterative method has fewer iteration times and time con-sumption, and spectrum correction iteration has more stable precision. </div>
文摘Since the paper of Box and Meyer who first considered the identification and estimation of dispersion effects from unreplicated factorial experiments,various different methods（both iterative and non-iterative） have been proposed for estimating dispersion effects.An overview of various methods was given by Brenneman and Nair and they showed that the modified Harvey（MH） method is better than other methods.For a log-linear or multiplicative model,a non-iterative estimation method of dispersion effects based on residuals averaging from multiple location effect models is proposed in model selection stage,which has been shown smaller Mean Square Errors（MSE） than the MH method in majority of simulated models.And it can apply to the situations with zero or small absolute residuals,but the MH method will be failure.The properties of this estimator are also considered.A real example is used to illustrate the results.
