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Automatic Ship Detection of Remote Sensing Images from Google Earth in Complex Scenes Based on Multi-Scale Rotation Dense Feature Pyramid Networks
Ship detection has been playing a significant role in the field of remote
sensing for a long time but it is still full of challenges. The main
limitations of traditional ship detection methods usually lie in the complexity
of application scenarios, the difficulty of intensive object detection and the
redundancy of detection region. In order to solve such problems above, we
propose a framework called Rotation Dense Feature Pyramid Networks (R-DFPN)
which can effectively detect ship in different scenes including ocean and port.
Specifically, we put forward the Dense Feature Pyramid Network (DFPN), which is
aimed at solving the problem resulted from the narrow width of the ship.
Compared with previous multi-scale detectors such as Feature Pyramid Network
(FPN), DFPN builds the high-level semantic feature-maps for all scales by means
of dense connections, through which enhances the feature propagation and
encourages the feature reuse. Additionally, in the case of ship rotation and
dense arrangement, we design a rotation anchor strategy to predict the minimum
circumscribed rectangle of the object so as to reduce the redundant detection
region and improve the recall. Furthermore, we also propose multi-scale ROI
Align for the purpose of maintaining the completeness of semantic and spatial
information. Experiments based on remote sensing images from Google Earth for
ship detection show that our detection method based on R-DFPN representation
has a state-of-the-art performance.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Rigid vortices in MgB2
Magnetic relaxation of high-pressure synthesized MgB bulks with different
thickness is investigated. It is found that the superconducting dia-magnetic
moment depends on time in a logarithmic way; the flux-creep activation energy
decreases linearly with the current density (as expected by Kim-Anderson
model); and the activation energy increases linearly with the thickness of
sample when it is thinner than about 1 mm. These features suggest that the
vortices in the MgB are rather rigid, and the pinning and creep can be well
described by Kim-Anderson model.Comment: Typo corrected & reference adde
Peripheral Direct Adjacent Lobe Invasion Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Has a Similar Survival to That of Parietal Pleural Invasion T3 Disease
IntroductionThe postoperative prognosis of peripheral adjacent lobe invasion non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the postoperative prognosis of NSCLC with direct adjacent lobe invasion by comparing it with that of visceral pleural invasion (primary lobe) T2 disease, and parietal pleural invasion T3 disease, and hence determine its most appropriate T category.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted to assess the survival of patients with peripheral direct adjacent lobe invasion NSCLC (group A), and it was compared with that of patients with visceral pleural invasion of the primary lobe (group B) and parietal pleural invasion (group C). All patients were node-negative on pathologic examination. Kaplan-Meier method was used to compare the postoperative survival between groups.ResultsA total of 263 patients were analyzed. The overall survival rates in groups A (n = 28), B (n = 167), and C (n = 68) at 5 years were 40.7, 54.6, and 41.9%, respectively; corresponding median survival in three groups were 53, 71, and 40 months, respectively. The survival difference among three groups was statistically significant (p = 0.031). A similar survival was observed between groups A and C, whereas group B had a much better survival than other groups.ConclusionsPeripheral adjacent lobe invasion NSCLC has a similar survival prognosis with that of parietal pleural invasion T3 disease and hence should be classified as T3 rather than T2. However, further studies are warranted
Observation of short-range Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states with threefold symmetry in layered superconductor 2H-NbSeâ‚‚
Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states arise when magnetic impurities interact with superconductivity. The intricacy of coupling and the nature of the superconductivity determine the behavior of the YSR state, whose detailed correlations are not yet fully understood. Here, we study the YSR state of a single Fe adatom on the surface of 2H-NbSeâ‚‚ with combined low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, density functional theory calculations and tight-binding modeling. It is found that the Fe adatom occupies the hollow site of the Se surface layer. A prominent YSR state close to the Fermi level is observed. The YSR state exhibits a threefold symmetry along the diagonal direction of the Se lattice. The spatial decay of the YSR state follows a behavior in three-dimensional superconductivity. This behavior contrasts with a previous study of imbedded Fe impurities, whose YSR state shows a six-fold symmetry and a two-dimensional long-range decay. According to our theoretical modeling, the coupling configurations affect the adatom-substrate hopping and the interlayer coupling of the substrate. Both factors are crucial for the consequent behavior of the YSR state
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