Application of 2D and 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) in Predicting Soil Erodibility in Oredide Village, Auchi in Etsako West LGA of Edo State, Southern Nigeria by D.A. Babaiwa, M.O. Ikponmwen

“…Resistivity values vary from 358 – 217741 Ωm and a 3D depth of 15.4 m was imaged; correlating with the 2D results. …”
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Altered shear stress of blood flow causes plasma membrane damage in endothelial cells by Nikita Raj, Chang Pan, Ann Marleen Starke, Anna L. L. Matos, Oliver Soehnlein, Volker Gerke

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Relationship between Abdominal Pressure, Pulmonary Compliance, and Cardiac Preload in a Porcine Model by Joost Wauters, Piet Claus, Nathalie Brosens, Myles McLaughlin, Greet Hermans, Manu Malbrain, Alexander Wilmer

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Hysterosalpingography Findings and Jimah Ratio of the Uterine Cavity in Women with Infertility in Central Region, Ghana by Bashiru Babatunde Jimah, Philip Gorleku, Anthony Baffour Appiah

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When is synthetic sufficient? Ethical considerations and alternatives in simulation-based ultrasound education by Andrea J. Doyle, Claire M. Condron

“…Abstract Simulation-based education (SBE) has become an integral part of training in health professions education, offering a safe environment for learners to acquire and refine clinical skills. As a non-ionising imaging modality, ultrasound is a domain of health professions education that is particularly supported by SBE. …”
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Oriented R-CNN With Disentangled Representations for Product Packaging Detection by Jiangyi Pan, Jianjun Yang, Yinhao Liu, Yijie Lv

“…To fill the shortage of wrapper datasets, we established a Carton Packing Tape (CPT) Dataset with a large scale of images only containing cartons. Specifically, we first collect a large number of images of packaged cartons from the real packaging production line and provide detection boxes for them by manual labeling. …”
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Host Mesh Fitting of a Generic Musculoskeletal Model of the Lower Limbs to Subject-Specific Body Surface Data: A Validation Study by Katja Oberhofer, Silvio Lorenzetti, Kumar Mithraratne

“…The fitted lengths and volumes of six muscle-tendon structures were compared against measures from Magnetic Resonance (MR) images for validation purposes. The HMF technique resulted in accurate approximations of the lower limb shapes of all subjects in both study groups. …”
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A novel ViT-BILSTM model for physical activity intensity classification in adults using gravity-based acceleration by Lin Wang, Zizhang Luo, Tianle Zhang

“…Gravity-based acceleration was utilised to generate images encoding various PAIs. These images were subsequently analysed using the ViT-BiLSTM model, with results presented in confusion matrices and compared with baseline models. …”
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Classification of white blood cells (leucocytes) from blood smear imagery using machine and deep learning models: A global scoping review. by Rabia Asghar, Sanjay Kumar, Arslan Shaukat, Paul Hynds

“…To date however, no review of these techniques and their application(s) within the domain of white blood cell (WBC) classification in blood smear images has been undertaken, representing a notable knowledge gap with respect to model selection and comparison. …”
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Biological age model using explainable automated CT-based cardiometabolic biomarkers for phenotypic prediction of longevity by Perry J. Pickhardt, Michael W. Kattan, Matthew H. Lee, B. Dustin Pooler, Ayis Pyrros, Daniel Liu, Ryan Zea, Ronald M. Summers, John W. Garrett

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Prostate Cancer Detection from MRI Using Efficient Feature Extraction with Transfer Learning by Rafiqul Islam, Al Imran, Md. Fazle Rabbi

“…The study begins by doing a thorough comparison examination of the deep learning architectures outlined above to evaluate their effectiveness in extracting significant characteristics from prostate cancer imaging data. Key metrics such as sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy are used to assess the models’ efficacy. …”
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Emotional Intervention and Education System Construction for Rural Children Based on Semantic Analysis by Xiaobo Zhang

“…In this paper, a platform for acquiring emotional semantic data of scene images in an open behavioral experimental environment is designed, which breaks the limitations of time and place, and thus acquires a large amount of emotional semantic data of scene images and then uses principal component analysis to evaluate the validity of the data analysis. …”
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Antitumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-α) Infliximab-Induced Pleural Effusion and Pericarditis in Crohn’s Disease by Ashley Fonseca, Julee Sunny, Lina M. Felipez

“…Initial laboratory workup was remarkable for leukocytosis and increased inflammatory markers. Imaging and cardiovascular studies were consistent with pericarditis and pleural effusions. …”
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Identifying novel heterozygous PI4KA variants in fetal abnormalities by Chen Cheng, Fan Yang, Xinlin Chen, Sheng Zhao

“…Subsequently, both wild-type and mutant PI4KA protein fragments were purified, and their enzymatic activities were quantitatively assessed. Results Ultrasound imaging, MRI scans revealed a dilated small intestine with an obstruction. …”
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Prospective Study of Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Cervical Radiculopathy in Absenceof Myelopathy by Umesh D. Jain, Amol Gowaikar, Pradip Patil, Uday Ghate, Rishabh Nair

“…The hospital records, images, operation notes, and follow-up records were reviewed and analyzed. …”
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Brain Activity during Lower-Limb Movement with Manual Facilitation: An fMRI Study by Patrícia Maria Duarte de Almeida, Ana Isabel Correia Matos de Ferreira Vieira, Nádia Isabel Silva Canário, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Alexandre Lemos de Castro Caldas

“…For a better understanding of these processes, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to collect data of 10 healthy subjects performing lower-limb multijoint functional movement under three stimuli: verbal stimulus, manual facilitation, and verbal + manual facilitation. …”
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Abnormal alterations in structure-function coupling at the modular level in patients with postherpetic neuralgia by Zihan Li, Jian Jiang, Xiaofeng Jiang, Yangyang Xie, Jing Lu, Lili Gu, Shunda Hong

“…We collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data and diffusion tensor imaging data from 82 healthy controls (HCs) and 71 PHN patients, generated structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) networks, and assessed the corresponding clinical information assessment. …”
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Application of the new ‘XU-line’ in the dynamic ultrasonographic evaluation of the spatial displacement of anterior cervical tissues for airway management: protocol for a prospecti... by Mao Xu, Yang Zhou, Yujie Wang, Mingfeng Mao, Wanrui Shi

“…Traditional predictors and imaging data may suggest a difficult airway, but these data have limited predictive value, with low sensitivity and specificity. …”
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Transtibial Pullout Repair of Lateral Meniscus Posterior Root Tear with Tissue Loss: A Case with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Medial Meniscus Tear by Masanori Tamura, Takayuki Furumatsu, Takaaki Hiranaka, Keisuke Kintaka, Naohiro Higashihara, Yusuke Kamatsuki, Eiji Nakata, Toshifumi Ozaki

“…However, magnetic resonance imaging and second-look arthroscopy at 1 year postoperatively revealed meniscal healing, gap filling with some regeneration tissue, of the LM posterior root. …”
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Outcome measures for assessing the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions on equinus foot deformity in post-stroke patients with triceps surae spasticity: A scoping review. by Isabella Campanini, Maria Chiara Bò, Maria Chiara Bassi, Benedetta Damiano, Sara Scaltriti, Mirco Lusuardi, Andrea Merlo

“…TS spasticity was assessed by manual maneuvers performed by clinicians (mainly using the Ashworth Scale), functional tests, mechanical evaluation through robotic devices, or instrumental analysis and imaging (such as the torque-angle ratio, the H-reflex, and ultrasound images). …”
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