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Polyethylene is widely used as mulching plastic film in china cotton area. Collecting plastic film residue using machine is difficult. The cotton mixed with plastic film residue is badly harmful to cotton production, and causes great loss to cotton spinning enterprise. The detection system for cotton plastic covering using ultrasonic is developed in the paper. Sound wave echo method is used to detect plastic film residue mixed in seed cotton. The SCM is used to process echo signal and compensate measurement error caused by temperature variation. Experimental result shows that the system developed in the paper have features of low lost, high detection accuracy, high resolution and it has broad prospect in application.

Osteoporosis is a significant global health concern that can be difficult to detect early due to a lack of symptoms. At present, the examination of osteoporosis depends mainly on methods containing dual-energy X-ray, quantitative CT, etc., which are high costs in terms of equipment and human time. Therefore, a more efficient and economical method is urgently needed for diagnosing osteoporosis. With the development of deep learning, automatic diagnosis models for various diseases have been proposed. However, the establishment of these models generally requires images with only lesion areas, and annotating the lesion areas is time-consuming. To address this challenge, we propose a joint learning framework for osteoporosis diagnosis that combines localization, segmentation, and classification to enhance diagnostic accuracy. Our method includes a boundary heat map regression branch for thinning segmentation and a gated convolution module for adjusting context features in the classification module. We also integrate segmentation and classification features and propose a feature fusion module to adjust the weight of different levels of vertebrae. We trained our model on a self-built dataset and achieved an overall accuracy rate of 93.3% for the three label categories (normal, osteopenia, and osteoporosis) in the testing datasets. The area under the curve for the normal category is 0.973; for the osteopenia category, it is 0.965; and for the osteoporosis category, it is 0.985. Our method provides a promising alternative for the diagnosis of osteoporosis at present.