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To address such a small-sample problem, the sample set size can be expanded by using virtual samples. In this study, an ultrasound evaluation method for the primary \u03b1 phase grain size based on the generation of virtual samples by a generative adversarial network (GAN) was developed. TC25 titanium alloy forgings were treated as the research object. Virtual samples were generated by the GAN with a fully connected network of different sizes used as the generator and discriminator. A virtual sample screening mechanism was constructed to obtain the virtual sample set, taking the optimization rate as the validity criterion. Moreover, an ultrasound evaluation optimization problem was constructed with accuracy as the target. It was solved by using support vector machine regression to obtain the final ultrasound evaluation model. A benchmark function was adopted to verify the effectiveness of the method, and a series of experiments and comparison experiments were performed on the ultrasound evaluation model using test samples. The results show that the learning accuracy of the original small samples can be increased by effective virtual samples. The ultrasound evaluation model built based on the proposed method has a higher accuracy and better stability than other models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22093274","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,26]],"date-time":"2022-04-26T02:14:39Z","timestamp":1650939279000},"page":"3274","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Ultrasound Evaluation of the Primary \u03b1 Phase Grain Size Based on Generative Adversarial Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Siqin","family":"Peng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test of Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"},{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xi","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test of Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guanhua","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test of Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test of Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"},{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4542-8804","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test of Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"},{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"623301","article-title":"Effect of ultrasonic vibration direction on milling characteristics of TC4 titanium alloy","volume":"41","author":"Zhao","year":"2020","journal-title":"Acta Aeronaut. 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