In robotic radiosurgery, a photon beam source, moved by a robot arm, is used to ablate tumors. The accuracy of the treatment can be improved by predicting respiratory motion to compensate for system delay. We consider a wavelet-based multiscale autoregressive prediction method. The algorithm is extended by introducing a new exponential averaging parameter and the use of the Moore-Penrose pseudo...

We investigate two modifications of the well-known irregularity strength of graphs, namely, a total edge irregularity strength and a total vertex irregularity strength. Recently the bounds and precise values for some families of graphs concerning these parameters have been determined. In this paper, we determine the exact value of the total edge (vertex) irregularity strength for the disjoint u...

Focusing on problems existing in track irregularity time series data quality, this paper first presents abnormal data identification, data offset correction algorithm, local outlier data identification, and noise cancellation algorithms. And then proposes track irregularity time series decomposition and reconstruction through the wavelet decomposition and reconstruction approach. Finally, the p...

The goal of this study was to test whether the "loss of the complexity" hypothesis can be applied to compare the metabolic patterns of mouse models with known differences in metabolic and endocrine function as well as life span. Here, we compare the complexity of locomotor activity and metabolic patterns (energy expenditure, VO₂, and respiratory quotient) of the long-lived growth hormone recept...

Judgment and early danger warning of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is meaningful to the diagnosis of sleep illness. This paper proposed a novel method based on wavelet information entropy spectrum to make an apnea judgment of the OSA respiratory signal detected by bio-radar in wavelet domain. It makes full use of the features of strong irregularity and disorder of respiratory signal resulting f...

The problem of attempting to construct radar signals whose ambiguity functions are sharply peaked in both time and frequency gives rise to a quantitative concept of the irregularity of a distribution of points. The problem of maximizing the irregularity of N points distributed on a bounded closed interval is here examined. A discrete mathematical tool for studying the irregularity function is d...

In this note a new measure of irregularity of a simple undirected graph G is introduced. It is named the total irregularity of a graph and is defined as irrt(G) = 1 2 ∑ u,v∈V (G) |dG(u)− dG(v)| , where dG(u) denotes the degree of a vertex u ∈ V (G). The graphs with maximal total irregularity are determined. It is also shown that among all trees of same order the star graph has the maximal total...

BACKGROUND An altered breathing pattern in sleep, over two to three weeks, reported by the parents of a child on Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy for refractory epilepsy, prompted a sleep study in him. His polysomnography (PSG) revealed respiratory irregularity concordant with VNS activation. Dyspnoea is a well recognised and reported side effect of the VNS. However there are only a few st...

Irregularity of firing in spike trains has been associated with coding processes and information transfer or alternatively treated as noise. Previous studies of irregularity have mainly used the coefficient of variation (CV) of the interspike interval distribution. Proper estimation of CV requires a constant underlying firing rate, a condition that most experimental situations do not fulfill ei...

Cutaneous melanocytic lesions, commonly known as moles, are mostly benign; however, some of them are malignant melanomas, the most fatal form of skin cancer. Because the survival rate of melanoma is inversely proportional to the thickness of the tumor, early detection is vital to the treatment process. Many dermatologists have advocated the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems for ea...