The existing automatic recognition algorithms for cervical lymph nodes have low efficiency, and the overall false positive removal are unsatisfied, so a cervical lymph node detection algorithm using cascaded Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNs) was proposed. Firstly, combined with the prior knowledge of doctors, the cascaded FCNs were used for preliminary identification, that was, the first FCN was used for extracting the cervical lymph node region from the Computed Tomography (CT) image of head and neck. Then, the second FCN was used to extract the lymph node candidate samples from the region, and merging them at the three-dimensional (3D) level to generate a 3D image block. Finally, the proposed feature block average pooling method was introduced into the 3D classification network, and the 3D input image blocks with different scales were classified into two classes to remove false positives. On the cervical lymph node dataset, the recall of cervical lymph nodes identified by cascaded FCNs is up to 97.23%, the classification accuracy of the 3D classification network with feature block average pooling can achieve 98.7%. After removing false positives, the accuracy of final result reaches 93.26%. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can realize the automatic recognition of cervical lymph nodes with high recall and accuracy, which is better than the current methods reported in the literatures; it is simple and efficient, easy to extend to other tasks of 3D medical images recognition.

Traditional data cleaning approaches usually implement cleaning rules specified by business requirements through hard-coding mechanism, which leads to well-known issues in terms of reusability, scalability and flexibility. In order to address these issues, a new Dynamic Rule-based Data Cleaning Method (DRDCM) was proposed, which supports the complex logic operation between various types of rules and three kinds of dirty data repair behavior. It integrates data detection, error correction and data transformation in one system and contributes several unique characteristics, including domain-independence, reusability and configurability. Besides, the formal concepts and terms regarding data detection and correction were defined, while necessary procedures and algorithms were also introduced. Specially, the supported multiple rule types and rule configurations in DRDCM were presented in detail. At last, the DRDCM approach was implemented. Experimental results show that the implemented system provides a high accuracy on the discarded behavior of dirty data repair with real-life data sets. Especially for the attribute required to comply with the statutory coding rules (such as ID card number), whose accuracy can reach 100%. Moreover, these results also indicate that this reference implementation of DRDCM can successfully support multiple data sources in cross-domain scenarios, and its performance does not sharply decrease with the increase of the number of rules. These results further validate that the proposed DRDCM is practical in real-world scenarios.

Along with the development of intelligent transportation information system, intelligent public transportation system is gradually popularized. Such information system is designed to provide all kinds of real-time information to transit passengers on the conditions of the network, and hence affect passengers’ travel choice behavior and improve passenger travel convenience and flexibility, so as to improve the social benefit and service level of the public transit system. Concerning the particularity of the transit network, with electronic bus stop information of Chengdu as an example, a questionnaire was designed to investigate passengers’ route choice behavior and travel intention. Qualitative and quantitative analysis and random utility theory were adopted，based on Logit model and mixed Logit model, route choice models were established, using characteristic variables of various options and passengers’ personal socio-economic attributes as explanatory variables. The method of Monte Carlo simulation and maximum likelihood were used to estimate parameters. The results indicate that the differences of route choice behavior resulting from individual preferences can be reasonably interpreted by mixed Logit model, which helps us better understand the complexity of transit behavior, so as to guide the application.

Concerning the special nature of the transit network, the generalized path concept that maybe easily describe passenger route choice behavior was put forward. The key cost of each path was considered. Based on the analytical framework of cumulative prospect theory and passengers' perception, a stochastic user equilibrium assignment model was developed. A simple example revealed that the limitations of the traditional method can be effectively improved by this proposed method. The basic assumption of complete rationality in traditional model was improved. It helped us enhance our understanding of the complexity of urban public transportation behavior and the rule of decision-making. The facility layout and planning of the public transportation can be determined with this result, as well as the evaluation of the level of service. In addition, it can also be used as valid data support for traffic guidance.

The control chart is in uncertain abnormal state when the plotted-point is close to the critical value, or the number of points is close to the prescriptive target, or there is concurrence of many abnormities. The traditional methods are hard to complete the pattern recognition. Considering the concurrence of trend pattern and cycle pattern, the original control chart signal was decomposed by wavelets. The different abnormal signals were reconstructed with appropriate wavelet coefficients. By curve fitting, the goodness of fit to the reconstruction wavelets was taken as the characteristic number of abnormal pattern. Then the occurrence degrees of uncertain patterns were calculated by inputting the characteristic numbers into membership function of corresponding patterns. The simulation model of this approach was developed under Matlab/Simulik. Finally, an application example was given and the result shows the feasibility of this approach.