The early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can allow patients to take preventive measures before irreversible brain damage occurs. It can be seen from cross-sectional imaging studies of AD that the features of the lesion areas in AD patients, as observed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), show significant variation, and these features are distributed throughout the image space. Since the convolutional layer of the general convolutional neural network (CNN) cannot satisfactorily extract long-distance correlation in the feature space, a deep residual network (ResNet) model, based on spatial transformer networks (STN) and the non-local attention mechanism, is proposed in this study for the early diagnosis of AD. In this ResNet model, a new Mish activation function is selected in the ResNet-50 backbone to replace the Relu function, STN is introduced between the input layer and the improved ResNet-50 backbone, and a non-local attention mechanism is introduced between the fourth and the fifth stages of the improved ResNet-50 backbone. This ResNet model can extract more information from the layers by deepening the network structure through deep ResNet. The introduced STN can transform the spatial information in MRI images of Alzheimer’s patients into another space and retain the key information. The introduced non-local attention mechanism can find the relationship between the lesion areas and normal areas in the feature space. This model can solve the problem of local information loss in traditional CNN and can extract the long-distance correlation in feature space. The proposed method was validated using the ADNI (Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging initiative) experimental dataset, and compared with several models. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of the algorithm proposed in this study can reach 97.1%, the macro precision can reach 95.5%, the macro recall can reach 95.3%, and the macro F1 value can reach 95.4%. The proposed model is more effective than other algorithms.

Most current research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is based on transverse measurements. Given the nature of neurodegeneration in AD progression, observing longitudinal changes in the structural features of brain networks over time may improve the accuracy of the predicted transformation and provide a good measure of the progression of AD. Currently, there is no cure for patients with existing AD dementia, but patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the prodromal stage of AD dementia may be diagnosed. The study of the early diagnosis of MCI and the prediction of MCI to AD transformation is of great significance for the monitoring of the MCI to AD transformation process. Despite the high rate of MCI conversion to AD, the neuropathological cause of MCI is heterogeneous. However, many people with MCI remain stable. Treatment options are different for patients with stable MCI and those with underlying dementia. Therefore, it is of great significance for clinical practice to predict whether patients with MCI will develop AD dementia. This paper proposes an improved algorithm that is based on a convolution neural network (CNN) with residuals combined with multi-layer long short-term memory (LSTM) to diagnose AD and predict MCI. Firstly, multi-time resting-state fMRI images were obtained from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database for preprocessing, and then an AAL brain partition template was used to construct a 90 × 90 functional connectivity (FC) network matrix of a whole-brain region of interest (ROI). Secondly, the diversity of training samples was increased by generating an adversarial network (GAN). Finally, a CNN with residuals and a multi-layer LSTM model were constructed to automatically classify and predict the functional adjacency matrix. This method can not only distinguish Alzheimer’s disease from normal health conditions at multiple time points, but can also predict progressive MCI (pMCI) and stable MCI (sMCI) at multiple time points. The classification accuracies in AD vs. NC and sMCI vs.pMCI reached 93.5% and 75.5%, respectively.

Due to the atmospheric scattering and absorption, hazy weather often occurs in our everyday life, thus reducing the visibility of scenes. Single image dehazing is considered as an ill-posed and challenging problem in computer vision. To restore visibility in inclement weather, we propose an attention-to-attention generative adversarial network (AAGAN) whose motivation is the human visual perceptual mechanism. More specifically, a dense channel attention model is embedded into the encoder. Moreover, its output is projected forward to the corresponding multiscale spatial attention model in the decoder. Both attention models form an attention-to-attention mechanism to implement attention projection, thus capturing global feature dependencies of the whole network. Besides, we analyze the dehazing mechanism based on the atmospheric scattering model, and then utilize an improved RaLSGAN to recover more realistic texture information and enhance visual contrast for different hazy scenes. Finally, in order to improve the visual performance of image restoration, we remove all the instance normalization layers to avoid unnecessary artifacts, and then introduce spectral normalization for all the convolution layers to stabilize the entire training process. Qualitative assessments and analyses demonstrate that our proposed approach can achieve remarkable dehazing performance on both synthetic and real-world scenes against previous state-of-the-art methods.

The increasing complexity of energy internet integrated with multiple energy systems requires a more flexible energy management system. To exploit the potential of energy complementarity, maximize the consumption of renewable energy sources (RES) and minimize the operating costs, a cooperative operation model for integrated multi-energy systems (IMES) with transmission losses is proposed in this paper. On this basis, a novel multi-energy management strategy is developed to improve the energy utilization efficiency of the systems for regional operation by integrating the alternative decomposition-based decoupling method for multi-energy flow and the dynamic wolf pack algorithm (DWPA). Furthermore, the operating costs are formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem based on the Pareto efficiency to obtain more diverse solutions. Finally, case studies considered perform sensitivity analysis and demonstrate that the proposed cooperative operation model and strategy can effectively improve the economy and the flexibility of a regional energy system.

High-quality and complete human motion 4D reconstruction is of great significance for immersive VR and even human operation. However, it has inevitable self-scanning constraints, and tracking under monocular settings also has strict restrictions. In this paper, we propose a human motion capture system combined with human priors and performance capture that only uses a single RGB-D sensor. To break the self-scanning constraint, we generated a complete mesh only using the front view input to initialize the geometric capture. In order to construct a correct warping field, most previous methods initialize their systems in a strict way. To maintain high fidelity while increasing the easiness of the system, we updated the model while capturing motion. Additionally, we blended in human priors in order to improve the reliability of model warping. Extensive experiments demonstrated that our method can be used more comfortably while maintaining credible geometric warping and remaining free of self-scanning constraints.

In this paper, a repetitive control scheme of a 2‐DOF robotic manipulator based on the improved cubic B‐spline curve is proposed. Firstly, a repetitive controller for robotic manipulator is designed, which is composed of an iterative controller and disturbance observer. Then, an improved B‐spline optimization scheme is introduced to divide the task of the robotic manipulator into three intervals. A correction function is added to each interval of cubic spline interpolation. Finally, a variety of cases are designed and simulated by MATLAB. The experimental results show that, compared with the conventional B‐spline, the improved B‐spline has better performance in tracking accuracy and smoothness of motion trajectory. By changing the mechanism of the manipulator, the cases of different weights and lengths are designed. The experimental results in these cases show that the proposed scheme can be applied to most of the 2‐DOF robotic manipulator control systems.