Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has developed rapidly over the last several years and now enables physicians to examine the gastrointestinal tract without surgical operation. However, a large number of images must be analyzed to obtain a diagnosis. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance in different computer vision tasks. Thus, in this work, we aim to explore the feasibility of deep learning for ulcer recognition and optimize a CNN-based ulcer recognition architecture for WCE images. By analyzing the ulcer recognition task and characteristics of classic deep learning networks, we propose a HAnet architecture that uses ResNet-34 as the base network and fuses hyper features from the shallow layer with deep features in deeper layers to provide final diagnostic decisions. 1,416 independent WCE videos are collected for this study. The overall test accuracy of our HAnet is 92.05%, and its sensitivity and specificity are 91.64% and 92.42%, respectively. According to our comparisons of F1, F2, and ROC-AUC, the proposed method performs better than several off-the-shelf CNN models, including VGG, DenseNet, and Inception-ResNet-v2, and classical machine learning methods with handcrafted features for WCE image classification. Overall, this study demonstrates that recognizing ulcers in WCE images via the deep CNN method is feasible and could help reduce the tedious image reading work of physicians. Moreover, our HAnet architecture tailored for this problem gives a fine choice for the design of network structure.

Nowadays, more and more enterprises and organizations are hosting their data into the cloud, in order to reduce the IT maintenance cost and enhance the data reliability. However, facing the numerous cloud vendors as well as their heterogenous pricing policies, customers may well be perplexed with which cloud(s) are suitable for storing their data and what hosting strategy is cheaper.The general status quo is that customers usually put their data into a single cloud (which is subject to the vendor lock-in risk) and then simply trust to luck. Based on comprehensive analysis of various state-of-the-art cloud vendors, this paper proposes a novel data hosting scheme (named CHARM) which integrates two key functions desired. The first is selecting several suitable clouds and an appropriate redundancy strategy to store data with minimized monetary cost and guaranteed availability. The second is triggering a transition process to re-distribute data according to the variations of data access pattern and pricing of clouds. We evaluate the performance of CHARM using both trace-driven simulations and prototype experiments. The results show that compared with the major existing schemes, CHARM not only saves around 20 percent of monetary cost but also exhibits sound adaptability to data and price adjustments.

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This proposed SegMECT imaging approach has great potential for practical applications. It can be readily realized on a conventional CT system.

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