Untreated Active Tuberculosis in Pregnancy with Intraocular Dissemination: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Shadi Rezai, Stephen LoBue, Daniel Adams, Yewande Oladipo, Ramses Posso, Tiffany Mapp, Crystal Santiago, Manisha Jain, William D. Marino, Cassandra E. Henderson

“…Fortunately, delay in diagnosis was minimized since patient delivered within 24 hours of admission. …”
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Looking outside the box with a pathology aware AI approach for analyzing OCT retinal images in Stargardt disease by Parisa Khateri, Tiana Koottungal, Damon Wong, Rupert W. Strauss, Lucas Janeschitz-Kriegl, Maximilian Pfau, Leopold Schmetterer, Hendrik P. N. Scholl

“…This method targets relatively unaffected regions for sublayer segmentation, ensuring accurate boundary delineation in areas with minimal disruption. In severely affected regions, identified by a box detection model, the total retina is segmented as a single layer to avoid errors. …”
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Improving Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Operational Reliability Through Cabin-Based Fuzzy Control in Costal Standalone Observation Systems in Antarctica by Jin Wang, Yinke Dou, Guangyu Zuo, Bo Fan, Yuru Xing

“…The results indicate that the stack temperature reaches the specified value more rapidly than with PID and ADRC control methods when the current loading and changes in the ambient temperature are considered, and the output voltage oscillation amplitude can be more effectively minimized. This research provides preliminary guidance for a reliable energy supply scheme for PEMFCs, especially in standalone observation systems in coastal locales.…”
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A Simplified Technique for All-Inside Tibial Socket Retrograde Drill Guiding Using a 2- to 3.5-mm Concentric Cannula Without the All-Inside Tibial Guide Ring by Yizhong Peng, M.D., Ph.D., Wenbo Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Wei Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Chunqing Meng, M.D., Ph.D., Hong Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Wei Huang, M.D., Ph.D.

“…The all-inside anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) technique is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that has gained popularity due to its reduced invasiveness and improved patient outcomes. …”
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Latest Advances in Intersphincteric Resection for Low Rectal Cancer by Yifan Xv, Jiajun Fan, Yuan Ding, Yang Hu, Yingjie Hu, Zhengjie Jiang, Qingsong Tao

“…Laparoscopic ISR and robotic ISR have been widely used with the proposal of 2 cm or even 1 cm rule of distal free margin and the development of minimally invasive technology. The aim of this review was to describe the newest advancements of ISR. …”
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A Semi-Supervised Attention Model for Identifying Authentic Sneakers by Yang Yang, Nengjun Zhu, Yifeng Wu, Jian Cao, Dechuan Zhan, Hui Xiong

“…A unique feature of the SSA model is its ability to take advantage of unlabeled data, which can help to further minimize the intra-class variation for more discriminative feature embedding. …”
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Blood-based biomarkers in mild behavioral impairment: an updated overview by Efthalia Angelopoulou, Xenia Androni, Chiara Villa, Alexandros Hatzimanolis, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Sokratis Papageorgiou

“…Identifying individuals at-risk for dementia is one of the critical objectives of current research efforts, highlighting the need for simple, cost-effective, and minimally invasive biomarkers. Mild behavioral impairment (MBI), characterized by the emergence of persistent neuropsychiatric manifestations in older adults, has attracted increasing attention as a potential early indicator of cognitive decline and dementia. …”
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TNF-α Induced the Enhanced Apoptosis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ankylosing Spondylitis by Overexpressing TRAIL-R2 by Zhenhua Liu, Liangbin Gao, Peng Wang, Zhongyu Xie, Shuizhong Cen, Yuxi Li, Xiaohua Wu, Le Wang, Hongjun Su, Wen Deng, Shan Wang, Deng Li, Jinteng Li, Yi Ouyang, Yanfeng Wu, Huiyong Shen

“…Inhibiting TRAIL-R2 expression using shRNA eliminated the apoptosis differences between HDMSCs and ASMSCs by partially reducing ASMSCs apoptosis but minimally affecting that of HDMSCs. Furthermore, the expression of FADD, cleaved caspase-8, cytosolic cytochrome C, and cleaved caspase-3 were comparable between HDMSCs and ASMSCs after TRAIL-R2 inhibition. …”
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Stem/Progenitor Cell Niches Involved in Hepatic and Biliary Regeneration by Guido Carpino, Anastasia Renzi, Antonio Franchitto, Vincenzo Cardinale, Paolo Onori, Lola Reid, Domenico Alvaro, Eugenio Gaudio

“…The niches also contain precursors to hepatic stellate cells and endothelia, macrophages, and have a matrix chemistry rich in hyaluronans, minimally sulfated proteoglycans, fetal collagens, and laminin. …”
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Biocompatibility and drug release kinetics of TiNbZrSn femtosecond laser-induced superhydrophilic structures by Tahir Nawaz, Vinod Paul, Sidrah Younus, Shahbaz Ahmad, Mehmet Egilmez, Wael Abuzaid, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Noor Akbar, Mustafa Khamis, Ghaleb A. Husseini, Ali S. Alnaser

“…In addition, the laser structured surfaces showed cell viability above 80 % and minimal cytotoxicity towards human keratinocytes. …”
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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVMs) and Pregnancy: A Rare Case of Hemothorax and Review of the Literature by Federica Di Guardo, Viviana Lo Presti, Giuliana Costanzo, Elisa Zambrotta, Luisa Maria Di Gregorio, Antonio Basile, Marco Palumbo

“…Recent studies reported the safeness of the TCE during pregnancy if performed by an experienced radiologist, at second or third trimesters when radiation exposure is believed to have minimal effect on the foetus. However, although the TCE during pregnancy represents an option, the treatment prior to pregnancy has to be considered the auspicial solution. …”
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Autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning system: a key to enhancing image analysis reproducibility and observer consistency in ultrasound imaging by Xin-Xin Lin, Ming-De Li, Si-Min Ruan, Wei-Ping Ke, Hao-Ruo Zhang, Hui Huang, Shao-Hong Wu, Mei-Qing Cheng, Wen-Juan Tong, Hang-Tong Hu, Dan-Ni He, Rui-Fang Lu, Ya-Dan Lin, Ming Kuang, Ming Kuang, Ming-De Lu, Ming-De Lu, Li-Da Chen, Qing-Hua Huang, Qing-Hua Huang, Wei Wang

“…Through comprehensive human-machine comparison experiments, the auto-RUSS was shown to effectively improve the reproducibility of ultrasound images and minimize human-induced variability.…”
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Context-Aware Fine-Grained Product Recognition on Grocery Shelves by Lovre Antonio Budimir, Zoran Kalafatic, Marko Subasic, Sven Loncaric

“…Product recognition is a fine-grained image retrieval problem because grocery stores can contain several thousand products on their shelves, some of which have minimal visual differences. Given that the products on the store’s shelves change frequently, it would be practical to build a system using a single reference image or a few per product. …”
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Taguchi Robust Design for Optimizing Surface Roughness of Turned AISI 1045 Steel Considering the Tool Nose Radius and Coolant as Noise Factors by Adel T. Abbas, Adham E. Ragab, Faycal Benyahia, Mahmoud S. Soliman

“…In this paper, Taguchi robust design is used to select the optimum combination of the cutting speed, depth of cut, and feed rate to enhance the surface roughness of turned AISI 1045 steel bars while minimizing the effects of the two noise factors. The optimum parameters predicted by the developed model showed good agreement with the experimental results.…”
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Transoral Laser-Assisted Total Laryngectomy: Expanding the TLM’s World by Aslan Ahmadi, Saleh Mohebbi, Masoud Kazemi, Ayda Sanaei

“…Conclusions. TLM-TL is a minimally invasive and cost-benefit endoscopic surgical procedure feasible in advanced laryngeal cancer with good long-term oncological and functional outcome. …”
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Localized COUP‐TFII pDNA Delivery Modulates Stem/Progenitor Cell Differentiation to Enhance Endothelialization and Inhibit Calcification of Decellularized Allografts by Mengmeng Xing, Fei Wang, Ruowen Chu, He Wang, Yuyao Sun, Meng Qian, Huan Jiang, Adam C. Midgley, Guohao Dai, Qiang Zhao

“…Abstract Decellularized allografts have emerged as promising candidates for vascular bypass grafting, owing to their inherent bioactivity and minimal immunogenicity. However, graft failure that results from suboptimal regeneration and pathological remodeling has hindered their clinical adoption. …”
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Hydrogel-Based Innovations in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Bridging Pathophysiological Complexities and Translational Therapeutic Gaps by Venera Cristina Dinescu, Liviu Martin, Marius Bica, Ramona Constantina Vasile, Andrei Gresita, Marius Bunescu, Mihai Andrei Ruscu, Madalina Aldea, Alexandra Daniela Rotaru-Zavaleanu

“…Addressing these gaps could unlock the full potential of hydrogel-based interventions, which offer minimally invasive, customizable solutions that could improve long-term outcomes and reduce recurrence rates. …”
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Immunoglobulin M response in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) following ranavirus infection by Zhenyu Huang, Naicheng Liu, Mingyang Xue, Chen Xu, Yuding Fan, Yan Meng, Nan Jiang, Yiqun Li, Wenzhi Liu, Yang He, Yong Zhou

“…Interestingly, fish that survived an initial viral infection exhibited minimal mortality and low viral loads in the gill and head kidney tissues when exposed to a higher viral concentration. …”
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DeLoCo: Decoupled location context-guided framework for wildlife species classification using camera trap images by Lifeng Wang, Shun Wang, Chenxun Deng, Haowei Zhu, Ye Tian, Junguo Zhang

“…Moreover, the weighted loss strategy based on correlation strength is proposed to prioritize image samples from locations with fewer classes and minimize the impact of samples from locations with diverse classes. …”
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Rare Case of an Epithelial Cyst in an Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Treated by Robot-Assisted Spleen Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy by Willemijn P. M. van Dijck, Vincent P. Groot, Lodewijk A. A. Brosens, Jeroen Hagendoorn, Inne H. M. Borel Rinkes, Maarten S. van Leeuwen, I. Quintus Molenaar

“…When pancreatectomy is inevitable due to symptoms or patient preference, minimally invasive laparoscopic or robot-assisted spleen preserving distal pancreatectomy should be considered.…”
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