PolyRes-Net: A Polyhierarchical Residual Network for Decoding Anatomical Complexity in Medical Image Segmentation by Amr Magdy, Khalid N. Ismail, Marghny H. Mohamed, Mahmoud Hassaballah, Haitham Mahmoud, Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

“…Medical image segmentation entails assigning each pixel in an image to its corresponding class label, a challenging task given the considerable anatomical variations in different cases. The encoder-decoder approach, exemplified by architectures such as U-Net, has emerged as the predominant framework for medical imaging segmentation tasks. …”
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Spatial and seasonal distribution of selected nitrogen cycle genes in deep waters of the Baltic Proper by Michał Grabski, Michał Grabski, Ewa Kotlarska, Aneta Łuczkiewicz, Konrad Hryniewicz, Grzegorz Węgrzyn, Beata Szymczycha

“…At all sites, genes encoding nitrogen reduction enzymes were most abundant, while the presence of NOS encoding genes was found in Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria phyla within all sites. …”
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Atypical Omenn Syndrome due to Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency by Avni Y. Joshi, Erin K. Ham, Neel B. Shah, Xiangyang Dong, Shakila P. Khan, Roshini S. Abraham

“…We present here a novel case of an atypical Omenn syndrome (OS) phenotype due to mutations in the ADA gene encoding adenosine deaminase. This case is noteworthy for a significant increase in circulating CD56brightCD16- cytokine-producing NK cells after treatment with steroids for skin rash.…”
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Preliminary analysis of the role of small hepatitis B surface proteins mutations in the pathogenesis of occult hepatitis B infection via the endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced UP... by Huang Chengrong, Zhang Hao, Wang Jing, Li Jianfei, Liu Qian, Zong Qiyin, Zhang Yunyun, Wang Qin, Zhou Qiang

“…Cells transfected with OBI-related SHB mutation-encoding plasmids exhibited lower supernatant HBsAg levels than cells transfected with WT plasmids. …”
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Deep unsupervised clustering for prostate auto-segmentation with and without hydrogel spacer by Hengrui Zhao, Biling Wang, Michael Dohopolski, Ti Bai, Steve Jiang, Dan Nguyen

“…To leverage this clustered data, we propose a text-guided segmentation model, contrastive language and image pre-training (CLIP)-UNet, which encodes the cluster information using a text encoder and combines the encoded text information with image features for segmentation. …”
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Optimizing Ontology Alignment through Linkage Learning on Entity Correspondences by Xingsi Xue, Chaofan Yang, Chao Jiang, Pei-Wei Tsai, Guojun Mao, Hai Zhu

“…In this work, an extended compact genetic algorithm-based ontology entity matching technique (ECGA-OEM) is proposed, which uses both the compact encoding mechanism and linkage learning approach to match the ontologies efficiently. …”
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Noise Robustness of Quantum Relaxation for Combinatorial Optimization by Kentaro Tamura, Yohichi Suzuki, Rudy Raymond, C. Hiroshi Watanabe, Yuki Sato, Ruho Kondo, Michihiko Sugawara, Naoki Yamamoto

“…Quantum random-access optimization (QRAO) is a quantum-relaxation-based optimizer that uses fewer qubits than the number of bits in the original problem by encoding multiple variables per qubit using quantum random-access code (QRAC). …”
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Open-Source Telemedicine Platform for Wireless Medical Video Communication by A. Panayides, I. Eleftheriou, M. Pantziaris

“…The performance of the proposed system is demonstrated using five atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound videos. The videos are encoded at the clinically acquired resolution, in addition to lower, QCIF, and CIF resolutions, at different bitrates, and four different encoding structures. …”
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Disorders in brassinosteroids signal transduction triggers the profound molecular alterations in the crown tissue of barley under drought. by Anetta Kuczyńska, Martyna Michałek, Piotr Ogrodowicz, Michał Kempa, Paweł Krajewski, Vladimiro Cardenia, Maria Teresa Rodriguez-Estrada, Marina Pérez-Llorca, Sergi Munné-Bosch, Krzysztof Mikołajczak

“…On the other hand, a set of genes expressed independently of the genotype was identified, including dehydrin encoding genes. This study also uncovered the candidate genes to be linkers of phytohormones crosstalk. …”
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Lung Cancer Prediction Using Neural Network Ensemble with Histogram of Oriented Gradient Genomic Features by Emmanuel Adetiba, Oludayo O. Olugbara

“…The histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) and local binary pattern (LBP) state-of-the-art feature extraction schemes were applied to extract representative genomic features from the encoded sequences of nucleotides. The ANN ensemble and HOG best fit the training dataset of this study with an accuracy of 95.90% and mean square error of 0.0159. …”
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Intensional profiles and different kinds of human minds. “Case studies” about Hungarian imperative-like sentence types by Gábor Alberti, Judit Kleiber, Zsuzsanna Schnell, Veronika Szabó

“… The paper offers such description of some imperative-like sentence types in potential well-formed Hungarian utterances which includes a parallel representation of the linguistically encoded intensional profiles of the sentence types and actual information states in potential interlocutors’ minds. …”
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Predicted Cold Shock Proteins from the Extremophilic Bacterium Deinococcus maricopensis and Related Deinococcus Species by Michael J. LaGier

“…The primary aim of this study was to test whether a representative, desert-dwelling Deinococcus, Deinococcus maricopensis, encodes Csps as part of its genome. Bioinformatic approaches were used to identify a Csp from D. maricopensis LB-34. …”
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Construction and characteristic analysis of the cultural genes map of Grand Canal bridge facilities: a case study in Hangzhou section, China by Wenting Wu, Shuming Jin, Shanfeng Zhang, Yi Mei, Kai Zhou

“…Based on this, various types of cultural genes are encoded according to the principle of cultural gene classification, in order to clarify the four major types of cultural genes: main genes, accessory genes, hybrid genes, and variant genes, forming a cultural gene encoding sequence map and analyzing their basic characteristics. …”
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Modelling Hysteresis in Shape Memory Alloys Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Network by Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh, Seyedkeivan Naseri, Payam Naseri

“…In the online configuration where the model uses encoder data as angular inputs, the root mean square error (RMSE) of predictions for various input voltages is significantly low at about 0.1 degrees where the maximum rotational angle of pulley is 8 degrees. …”
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Discrimination of Radiologists' Experience Level Using Eye-Tracking Technology and Machine Learning: Case Study by Stanford Martinez, Carolina Ramirez-Tamayo, Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Kal Clark, Adel Alaeddini, Nicholas Czarnek, Aarushi Aggarwal, Sahra Emamzadeh, Jeffrey R Mock, Edward J Golob

“…The encoded features of the eye-fixation data are used by machine learning classifiers to discriminate between faculty and trainee radiologists. …”
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General and Specific Genetic Polymorphism of Cytokines-Related Gene in AITD by Chen Xiaoheng, Mei Yizhou, He Bei, Li Huilong, Wang Xin, Hu Rui, Li Lu, Ding Zhiguo

“…Various cytokines and related genes encoding them play important roles in the development and progression of AITD. …”
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Nuclear-Targeting Delivery of CRISPRa System for Upregulation of β-Defensin against Virus Infection by Dexamethasone and Phenylalanine Dual-Modified Dendrimer by Mingxiang Zuo, Xiaoxia Li, Shuang Liu, Bin Chen, Du Cheng

“…The dual-modified dendrimer containing dexamethasone (DET) and phenylalanine (Phe) was prepared to deliver plasmid DNA encoding dCas9 and single-guide RNA (sgRNA) for specific upregulation of β-defensin. …”
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DYNAMICS OF IL12 CYTOKINE EXPRESSION IN HUMAN MACROPHAGES AFTER TREATMENT WITH DIOXIN by D. Y. Oshchepkov, E. V. Kashina, E. V. Antontseva, E. A. Oshchepkova, V. A. Mordvinov, D. P. Furman

“…Thus, the well-known dioxin influence on the immune system can be associated with the difference in the dioxin effect on the expression dynamics of the genes encoding IL-12 subunits.…”
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Capsular polysaccarides of probiotics and their immunomodulatory roles by Jing Li, Saisai Feng, Leilei Yu, Jianxin Zhao, Fengwei Tian, Wei Chen, Qixiao Zhai

“…The genes known to be associated with these two pathways are mainly those associated with priming glycosyltransferase (pGT); a variable number of genes encoding for different glycosyl transferases (GTs); Wzx/Wzy-encoding enzymes related to flippases and polymerases; and ABC-transporter genes. …”
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FFUNet: A novel feature fusion makes strong decoder for medical image segmentation by Junsong Xie, Renju Zhu, Zezhi Wu, Jinling Ouyang

“…On the other hand, the feature gap between an encoder and decoder is also challenging for a U‐shaped network, which adopts a plain skip connection. …”
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