Solitary fibular metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma with gene mutation: a case report by Jiechen Chen, Ahmad Alkhatatbeh, Yinbing Lin, Xiaolin Lu, Bin Chen, Hongjiang Chen, Xiaohui Lu, Hansheng Wu, Jun Hu

“…This report presents a 40-year-old non-smoking Asian male who initially presented with painful swelling in the right knee. Imaging revealed bony destruction of the right fibular head, and further investigations with chest CT, PET/C, pathologic biopsy and genetic testing identified a primary lung adenocarcinoma with EGFR exon 19 deletion mutation. …”
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Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: a Review by Bhanu Prakash Sharma, Ravindra Kumar Purwar

“…In recent studies, deep learning models outperformed the handcrafted feature extraction and classification task and the semantic segmentation of ROI images achieved good results. An accuracy of up to 99.8% has been obtained using these techniques. …”
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Information Accessibility in the Form of Braille by Samuel Dolphin, Maren Downing, Mia Cirrincione, Adam Samuta, Kevin Leite, Kimberly Noble, Brian Walsh

“…As part of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Tech program and its goal to make home tests accessible to people with disabilities, a series of interviews with industry experts was conducted to better understand braille technologies and the braille user space. …”
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Automatic Tracking Method of Basketball Flight Trajectory Based on Data Fusion and Sparse Representation Model by Cuiping Cao, Hai Yu, Yun Liu

“…The specific implementation steps of this method are as follows: the features of flying basketball images were extracted by the target feature extraction algorithm, and the appearance model of flying basketball was built based on sparse representation. …”
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Comprehensive case report and literature review on perioperative management of multiple pheochromocytoma in a pediatric patient by Shenghua Yu, Tianxiao Zou, Sisi Wei, Yani Yu, Guili Ding

“…This case report presents a 12-year-old boy with a three-year history of fatigue and a one-year history of blurred vision, who was admitted with severe hypertension (230/200 mmHg). Abdominal CT imaging revealed bilateral adrenal masses measuring 40 mm on the left and 12 mm on the right. …”
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Human Herpesvirus 6 is Associated with Status Epilepticus and Hyponatremia after Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation by Fernanda Leite de Souza Franceschi, Jaime Green, Zuzan Cayci, Evan Mariash, Mustapha Ezzeddine, Veronika Bachanova, Celalettin Ustun

“…Cerebrospinal fluid and serum were positive for human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6). Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed symmetric T2 hyper-intensity bilaterally in the mesial temporal lobes, and T2 hyperintensi-ties and restricted diffusion of bilateral putamina. …”
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The Role of Laparoscopy in the Management of a Diagnostic Dilemma: Jejunal Ectopic Pancreas Developing into Jejunojejunal Intussusception by Alessio Giordano, Giovanni Alemanno, Carlo Bergamini, Paolo Prosperi, Alessandro Bruscino, Andrea Valeri

“…We decided to perform an emergency diagnostic exploratory laparoscopy in a 29-year-old man with an acute abdomen and nonspecific radiological images for intestinal occlusion. A jejunojejunal intussusception was found, caused by a mass. …”
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Development of Automatic 3D Blood Vessel Search and Automatic Blood Sampling System by Using Hybrid Stereo-Autofocus Method by Eiji Nakamachi, Yusuke Morita, Yoshifumi Mizuno

“…The 3D BVS system uses near-infrared (NIR) light imaging and the stereo and autofocus hybrid method to determine blood vessel locations accurately in three dimensions. …”
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Autoinfarction of Giant Parathyroid Adenoma after Preoperative Withdrawal of Anticoagulants by Raoul Verzijl, Pim J. Bongers, Geetha Mukerji, Ozgur Mete, Karen M. Devon, Jesse D. Pasternak

“…His physical examination demonstrated the presence of a palpable right neck mass. Subsequent imaging studies revealed a large parathyroid mass as well as multiple bone lesions, raising the suspicion of parathyroid carcinoma. …”
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Quantifying crowding perception at large events using beacons and surveys by Sakurako Tanida, Hyerin Kim, Claudio Feliciani, Xiaolu Jia, Akira Takahashi, Tetsuya Aikoh, Katsuhiro Nishinari

“…However, when asked to select images that closely reflect crowding density conditions within the facility, the association was mostly relative (i.e., context-depending) and lacked absolute accuracy. …”
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Forensic examinations in the investigations of crimes involving animals: a review by Cristiano Mougenot Mores, Márcio Botelho de Castro, Cristiano Barros de Melo

“…The review covers key aspects of forensic examinations conducted by criminal experts, including forensic entomology, forensic toxicology, imaging techniques, taxonomic identifications, bird rings, investigations of mistreatment, forensic veterinary pathology, forensic genetics, and isotope ratio analysis. …”
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Bacterial Spinal Epidural and Psoas Abscess in Pregnancy Associated with Intravenous Drug Use by Tirtza N. Spiegel Strauss, Sarah L. Pachtman, Burton Rochelson

“…Despite antibiotic therapy, pain worsened and she developed lower extremity weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an SEA, and cesarean delivery was performed secondary to increasing weakness, followed by laminectomy (T9-12) and decompression of epidural abscess. …”
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Extramedullary Plasmacytoma of the Larynx Treated by a Surgical Endoscopic Approach and Radiotherapy by Massimiliano Pino, Filippo Farri, Pietro Garofalo, Fausto Taranto, Andrea Toso, Paolo Aluffi

“…Diagnosis of solitary EMP can be made only if studies for disseminated disease and X-ray and/or magnetic resonance imaging of the spine, pelvis, femurs, and humerus and bone marrow biopsy are negative. …”
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Automatic Task Planning and Its On-Orbit Verification of Agile Remote Sensing Satellite by Zhang Yahang, Yang Haiyue, Yang Mengfei, Yang Ruochu, Leng Shuhang

“…No more than 128 ordered points describe the curve area task or irregular polygon area task, and the complex task is decomposed into several strips according to the satellite imaging width. Then, the task’s orbit, attitude, mobility, energy, and time constraints are calculated through the modules of on-board orbit prediction, agile attitude calculation, track planning, energy prediction, and visible arc calculation. …”
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An Over-Actuated Hexacopter Tilt-Rotor UAV Prototype for Agriculture of Precision: Modeling and Control by Gabriel Oliveira Pimentel, Murillo Ferreira dos Santos, José Lima, Paolo Mercorelli, Fernanda Mara Fernandes

“…The enhanced maneuverability allows for precise navigation in complex vineyard environments, enabling the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform tasks such as aerial imaging and crop health monitoring. The employed control architecture consists of cascaded proportional (P)-proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controllers using the successive loop closure (SLC) method on the five controlled degrees of freedom (DoFs). …”
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All-Trans Retinoic Acid-Induced Pseudotumor Cerebri during Induction Therapy for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Case Report and Literature Review by Dylan Holmes, Prakash Vishnu, Russell K. Dorer, David M. Aboulafia

“…PC is a rare disorder characterized by neurologic and ocular signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, but with normal cerebrospinal fluid composition and normal brain imaging. Most of the previous studies suggest that PC, as a complication of ATRA therapy, occurs predominantly in the pediatric age group. …”
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A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling by Xiaogeng Chu, Yuning Chen, Lining Xing

“…The agile earth observing satellite scheduling (AEOSS) problem consists of scheduling a subset of images among a set of candidates that satisfy imperative constraints and maximize a gain function. …”
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Deep Learning Based on Residual Networks for Automatic Sorting of Bananas by Abdulkader Helwan, Mohammad Khaleel Sallam Ma’aitah, Rahib H. Abiyev, Selin Uzelaltinbulat, Bengi Sonyel

“…The simulation results of the designed system have shown a great generalization capability when tested on test (unseen) banana images and obtained high accuracy of 99%. The simulation results of the designed residual learning-based system are compared with the results of other systems used for grading the bananas. …”
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Focal Nodular Hyperplasia and Hepatocellular Adenoma around the World Viewed through the Scope of the Immunopathological Classification by Charles Balabaud, Wesal R. Al-Rabih, Pei-Jer Chen, Kimberley Evason, Linda Ferrell, Juan C. Hernandez-Prera, Shiu-Feng Huang, Thomas Longerich, Young Nyun Park, Alberto Quaglia, Peter Schirmacher, Christine Sempoux, Swan N. Thung, Michael Torbenson, Aileen Wee, Matthew M. Yeh, Shiou-Hwei Yeh, Brigitte Le Bail, Jessica Zucman-Rossi, Paulette Bioulac-Sage

“…In the coming decade the management of HCA will be more dependent on the identification of HCA subtypes, particularly for smaller nodules (<5 cm) in terms of imaging, follow-up, and resection.…”
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Mechanisms Underlying Improvement in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome by Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty by Takahisa Yamamoto, Naoko Fujii, Yoichi Nishimura, Noboru Iwata, Seiichi Nakata

“…Anatomically accurate upper airway computational models were reconstructed from computed tomographic imaging data. In addition, computed fluid dynamics analysis was performed to reveal inhalation flow characteristics before and after UPPP and clearly assess the effect of UPPP on airflow patterns in the patient’s upper airway. …”
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