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Coexistence of directed momentum current and ballistic energy diffusion in coupled non-Hermitian kicked rotors
We numerically investigate the quantum transport in a coupled kicked rotors
with the -symmetric potential. We find that the spontaneous
-symmetry breaking of wavefunctions emerges when the amplitude of
the imaginary part of the complex potential is beyond a threshold value, which
can be modulated by the coupling strength effectively. In the regime of the
-symmetry breaking, the particles driven by the periodical kicks
move unidirectionally in momentum space, indicating the emergence of a directed
current. Meanwhile, with increasing the coupling strength, we find a transition
from the ballistic energy diffusion to a kind of the modified ballistic energy
diffusion where the width of the wavepacket also increases with time in a power
law. Our findings suggest that the decoherence effect induced by the interplay
between the inter-particle coupling and the non-Hermitian driving potential is
responsible for these particular transport behaviors.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Retinal Fundus Image Registration via Vascular Structure Graph Matching
Motivated by the observation that a retinal fundus image may contain some unique geometric structures within
its vascular trees which can be utilized for feature matching, in this paper, we proposed a graph-based registration
framework called GM-ICP to align pairwise retinal images. First, the retinal vessels are automatically detected and
represented as vascular structure graphs. A graph matching is then performed to find global correspondences between
vascular bifurcations. Finally, a revised ICP algorithm incorporating with quadratic transformation model is used at
fine level to register vessel shape models. In order to eliminate the incorrect matches from global correspondence
set obtained via graph matching, we proposed a structure-based sample consensus (STRUCT-SAC) algorithm. The
advantages of our approach are threefold: (1) global optimum solution can be achieved with graph matching; (2)
our method is invariant to linear geometric transformations; and (3) heavy local feature descriptors are not required.
The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated by the experiments with 48 pairs retinal images collected from
clinical patients
Role of Body Mass Index, Waist-to-Height and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Prediction of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Objective. To investigate the anthropometric indicators that can effectively predict the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Methods. The height, body weight, waist and hip circumference were measured, and body mass index (BMI), waist-to-height (WHtR) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were calculated. M-H chi square test, logistic regression analysis, and receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve were employed for the analysis of risk factors. Patients or Materials. 490 patients were recruited, of whom 250 were diagnosed as NAFLD and 240 as non-NAFLD (control group). Results. Compared with the control group, the BMI, WHR, and WHtR were significantly higher in patients with NAFLD. Logistic regression analysis showed that BMI and WHR were effective prognostic factors of NAFLD. In addition, WHR plays a more important role in prediction of NAFLD by the area under curve. Conclusion. WHR is closely related to the occurrence of NAFLD. We assume that WHR is beneficial for the diagnosis NAFLD
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