Automated Pavement Crack Damage Detection Using Deep Multiscale Convolutional Features by Weidong Song, Guohui Jia, Hong Zhu, Di Jia, Lin Gao

“…However, pavement cracks automated detection has been a challenging task, including strong nonuniformity, complex topology, and strong noise-like problems in the crack images, and so on. To address these challenges, we propose the CrackSeg—an end-to-end trainable deep convolutional neural network for pavement crack detection, which is effective in achieving pixel-level, and automated detection via high-level features. …”
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The Feasibility of Using CT-Guided ROI for Semiquantifying Striatal Dopamine Transporter Availability in a Hybrid SPECT/CT System by Chien-Chin Hsu, Yen-Hsiang Chang, Wei-Che Lin, Shu-Wen Tang, Pei-Wen Wang, Yung-Cheng Huang, Nan-Tsing Chiu

“…A hybrid SPECT/CT system provides accurate coregistration of functional and morphological images. CT-guided region of interest (ROI) for semiquantifying striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) availability may be a feasible method. …”
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Hepatitis B Stigma and Knowledge among Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City and Chicago by Lan Dam, Anita Cheng, Phuong Tran, Shirley S. Wong, Ronald Hershow, Sheldon Cotler, Scott J. Cotler

“…Stigma regarding viral hepatitis and liver disease has psychological and social consequences including causing negative self-image, disrupting relationships, and providing a barrier to prevention, testing, and treatment. …”
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Low Fat Loss Response after Medium-Term Supervised Exercise in Obese Is Associated with Exercise-Induced Increase in Food Reward by Graham Finlayson, Phillipa Caudwell, Catherine Gibbons, Mark Hopkins, Neil King, John Blundell

“…Food reward (ratings of liking and wanting, and relative preference by forced choice pairs) for an array of food images was assessed before and after an acute exercise bout. …”
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Proinflammatory Cytokine Expression in Apical Periodontitis from Diabetic Patients by Estéfano Borgo Sarmento, Rosana Helena Teixeira de Lima Ribeiro Andrade, Cinthya Cristina Gomes, Fábio Ramôa Pires, Maria Isabel Bastos Valente, Adalgiza Mafra Moreno, Marco Orsini, Dennis Carvalho Ferreira, Lucio Souza Gonçalves, Luciana Armada

“…Twenty-six periapical lesions were selected, and the images obtained through immunohistochemistry reactions were analyzed. …”
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Fourier or Wavelet bases as counterpart self-attention in spikformer for efficient visual classification by Qingyu Wang, Qingyu Wang, Duzhen Zhang, Xinyuan Cai, Tielin Zhang, Bo Xu

“…Hence, the Fourier-or-Wavelet-based spikformer (FWformer) is proposed and verified in visual classification tasks, including both static image and event-based video datasets. The FWformer can achieve comparable or even higher accuracies (0.4%–1.5%), higher running speed (9%–51% for training and 19%–70% for inference), reduced theoretical energy consumption (20%–25%), and reduced graphic processing unit (GPU) memory usage (4%–26%), compared to the standard spikformer. …”
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RGB-D salient object detection based on BC2 FNet network by WANG Feng, CHENG Yongmei

“…In the face of complex scene images, the introduction of depth information can greatly improve the performance of salient object detection. …”
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Asphalt Mixture for the First Asphalt Concrete Directly Fastened Track in Korea by Seong-Hyeok Lee, Dae-Wook Park, Hai Viet Vo, Samer Dessouky

“…The stripping percentage of asphalt mixtures was measured using a digital camera and analyzed based on image analysis techniques. Based on the limited research results, the finer aggregate gradation is the most suitable for asphalt mixture for ADFT system with the high TSR value and the low stripping percentage and permeable coefficient. …”
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Na-TiNT Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antibacterial Properties by Enzo V. H. Agressott, Mauro M. Oliveira, Thiago S. Freitas, Raimundo L. S. Pereira, Ana R. P. Silva, Rafael P. Cruz, Antonia T. L. Santos, Alexandre M. R. Teixeira, Tainara G. Oliveira, João H. da Silva, Alexandre R. Paschoal, Bartolomeu C. Viana, Paulo de Tarso C. Freire, Abolghasem Siyadatpanah, Polrat Wilairatana, Henrique D. M. Coutinho

“…The XRD diffractogram confirmed the Raman spectra and evidenced the crystalline structure associated to Na-TiNT, which showed the characteristic peaks of the sodium trititanate crystal. SEM and TEM images showed the morphology of hollow nanotubes and forming semispherical particles. …”
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Computational study of transcatheter aortic valve replacement based on patient-specific models—rapid surgical planning for self-expanding valves by Zhuangyuan Meng, Haishan Zhang, Yunhan Cai, Yuan Gao, Changbin Liang, Jun Wang, Xin Chen, Liang Guo, ShengZhang Wang, ShengZhang Wang

“…It also aimed to calculate the risks of postoperative paravalvular leak and atrioventricular conduction block, comparing these risks to clinical outcomes to verify the method’s effectiveness and accuracy. Based on medical images, six cases were established, including the aortic wall, native valve and calcification; one with a bicuspid aortic valve and five with tricuspid aortic valves. …”
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Impact of Pore-Scale Characteristics on Immiscible Fluid Displacement by Nariman Mahabadi, Leon van Paassen, Ilenia Battiato, Tae Sup Yun, Hyunwook Choo, Jaewon Jang

“…In this study, a three-dimensional (3D) tube network model was extracted from 3D X-ray computed tomography images of natural sand. The extracted network model was used to quantitatively outline the phase boundary of the displacement pattern and to examine the displacement efficiency for wide ranges of viscosity ratios and capillary numbers. …”
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Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation by Yinbing Jiang, Linfeng Shi, Xinyu Fan

“…Most existing remote sensing image segmentation models prioritize lightweight design, which often leads to difficulties in identifying small objects and edge information, as well as insufficient multi-scale capabilities. …”
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In vivo MRI visualization of growth and morphology in the orthotopic xenotrasplantation U87 glioblastoma mouse SCID model by E. L. Zavjalov, I. A. Razumov, L. A. Gerlinskaya, A. V. Romashchenko

“…The study of glioblastoma growth with T2-weighed images showed that a significant tumor development began not earlier than 3 weeks after cell culture intracranial injection and then the tumor grew exponentially. …”
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A Stereomicroscopic Evaluation of Dentinal Cracks at Different Instrumentation Lengths by Using Different Rotary Files (ProTaper Universal, ProTaper Next, and HyFlex CM): An Ex Viv... by Fauzia Ashraf, Pushpa Shankarappa, Abhinav Misra, Asheesh Sawhney, Nandamuri Sridevi, Anu Singh

“…The root apex was stained with 1% methylene blue dye and digital images of apical surface of every tooth were taken and development of dentinal defects was determined by using stereomicroscope. …”
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A knowledge graph for crop diseases and pests in China by Rongen Yan, Ping An, Xianghao Meng, Yakun Li, Dongmei Li, Fu Xu, Depeng Dang

“…In this paper, we propose CropDP-KG, a knowledge graph for crop diseases and pests in China, which leverages natural language processing techniques to analyze data from the Chinese crop diseases and pests image-text database. CropDP-KG covers relevant information on crop diseases and pests in China, featuring 8 primary entities such as diseases, symptoms, and crops, and is organized into 7 relationships such as primary occurrence locations, affected parts and suitable temperature. …”
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Brief Report: Precision Language and Deletion of the “S” Word by Ciara Lockstadt, MD, Mary M. Pasquinelli, DNP, Jill Feldman, MD, Jamie L. Studts, PhD, Jamie S. Ostroff, PhD, Li Liu, PhD, Ella A. Kazerooni, MD, Robert A. Smith, PhD, Lisa Carter-Bawa, PhD, Lawrence E. Feldman, MD

“…We searched each presentation, including images, for discussion of tobacco use and the use of the term “smoker,” which is an indicator of stigmatizing language. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Property and Pore Distribution of Limestone Specimens after Heat Treatment under Different Heating Conditions by Yujie Feng, Haijian Su, Qian Yin, Liyuan Yu, Yingchao Wang

“…Combining the NMR results and the microstructure images from scanning electron microscope (SEM) technology, the evolution of pore distribution was revealed. …”
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Combining of the H/A/Alpha and Freeman–Durden Polarization Decomposition Methods for Soil Moisture Retrieval from Full-Polarization Radarsat-2 Data by Qiuxia Xie, Qingyan Meng, Linlin Zhang, Chunmei Wang, Qiao Wang, Shaohua Zhao

“…Our algorithm thus improves the accuracy of SM data retrieval from synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images.…”
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Diagnostic accuracy of CCTA-derived versus angiography-derived quantitative flow ratio (CAREER) study: a prospective study protocol by Liang Zhang, Yang Chen, Cheng Li, Ming Li, Shaofeng Guan, Xinkai Qu, Tingwen Weng, Qian Gan, Zehang Li, Wenzheng Han, Xinrong Zhai, Lin Qi, Xifeng Chang, Shengxian Tu

“…Introduction Coronary CT angiography (CCTA)-derived quantitative flow ratio (CT-QFR) is a novel non-invasive technology to assess the physiological significance of coronary stenoses, which enables fast and on-site computation of fractional flow reserve (FFR) from CCTA images. The objective of this investigator-initiated, prospective, single-centre clinical trial is to evaluate the diagnostic performance of CT-QFR with respect to angiography-derived QFR, using FFR as the reference standard.Methods and analysis A total of 216 patients who have at least one lesion with a diameter stenosis of 30%–90% in an artery with ≥2.0 mm reference diameter will be enrolled in the study. …”
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The Detection Rate of Associated Mg ii Absorption Lines in Quasars Depends on Their Radio Emission by Zhi-Fu Chen, Luis C. Ho

“…By combining observations from the Very Large Array Sky Survey, the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm, the LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we assembled a sample of 3141 radio-loud quasars, among which 418 exhibit Mg ii -associated absorption lines in their SDSS spectra. …”
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