Evaluating CNN Architectures and Hyperparameter Tuning for Enhanced Lung Cancer Detection Using Transfer Learning by Mohd Munazzer Ansari, Shailendra Kumar, Umair Tariq, Md Belal Bin Heyat, Faijan Akhtar, Mohd Ammar Bin Hayat, Eram Sayeed, Saba Parveen, Dustin Pomary

“…The dataset consisted of 460 × 460 × 3 pixel images categorized into squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), normal benign, large cell carcinoma (LCC), and adenocarcinoma (ADC). …”
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Predictors of Medical Students’ Adoption of Emergency Medicine Virtual Simulation Platforms by Lingjiao Tang, Yu Ning, Hui Lv, Xuebin Li, Aihe Tang

“…The results revealed that image, relevance, and result demonstrability significantly affected perceived usefulness, whereas computer self-efficacy, perceptions of external control, anxiety, perceived enjoyment, and playfulness shaped perceived ease of use. …”
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UPL-SLAM: Unconstrained RGB-D SLAM With Accurate Point-Line Features for Visual Perception by Xianshuai Sun, Yuming Zhao, Yabiao Wang, Zhigang Li, Zhen He, Xiaohui Wang

“…In mainstream simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms, feature points are commonly utilized to represent image features. However, the quantity and quality of these feature points are contingent upon the environmental texture, lighting conditions, and motion speed. …”
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Carotid Artery Stenosis: Comparison of 3D Time-of-Flight MR Angiography and Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography at 3T by Ivan Platzek, Dominik Sieron, Philipp Wiggermann, Michael Laniado

“…The MR examination included both 3D TOF MRA and CEMRA of the carotid arteries. MR images were evaluated independently by two board-certified radiologists. …”
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Impact of high pressure impregnation and air drying on the quality of Dosidicus gigas slices by Liliana Zura-Bravo, Roberto Lemus-Mondaca, Jaime Ortiz, Marcos Flores, Gipsy Tabilo-Munizaga, Mario Pérez-Won, Klaudia Masztalerz

“…Also, scanning electron microscope (SEM) images showed a compacted structure of HPI-dried squid samples. …”
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Effects of R-Phase on Mechanical Responses of a Nickel-Titanium Endodontic Instrument: Structural Characterization and Finite Element Analysis by Leandro de Arruda Santos, Pedro Damas Resende, Maria Guiomar de Azevedo Bahia, Vicente Tadeu Lopes Buono

“…A commercially available endodontic instrument was scanned using microcomputed tomography, and the resulting images were used to build the geometrical model. The numerical analyses were performed in ABAQUS using load and boundary conditions based on the ISO 3630-1 specification for the bending and torsion of endodontic instruments. …”
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Risedronate Attenuates Podocyte Injury in Phosphate Transporter-Overexpressing Rats by Yohei Asada, Takeshi Takayanagi, Tsukasa Kawakami, Eisuke Tomatsu, Atsushi Masuda, Yasumasa Yoshino, Sahoko Sekiguchi-Ueda, Megumi Shibata, Tomihiko Ide, Hajime Niimi, Eishin Yaoita, Yusuke Seino, Yoshihisa Sugimura, Atsushi Suzuki

“…However, electron microscopy images showed that thickening of the glomerular basement membrane was improved in the risedronate treatment group. …”
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Gis tools and numeric model to forecast the floods extend along the Rhouireg river, city of Taza, Morocco by Layan Badr, Zemzami Mahmoud, Benaabidate Lahcen, Ben Abbou Mohamed

“…In this study, we used a 1D hydrodynamic model to predict the extent of future floods and eventually present the floodable areas on a satellite image covering a densely populated section of the Rhouireg river, located in the eastern part of Taza city. …”
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Effects of a New Nano-Silver Fluoride-Containing Dentifrice on Demineralization of Enamel and Streptococcus mutans Adhesion and Acidogenicity by Joás Araújo Teixeira, Amitis Vieira Costa e Silva, Valdeci Elias dos Santos Júnior, Paulo Correia de Melo Júnior, Manuela Arnaud, Maria Goretti Lima, Miguel Angel Pelagio Flores, Thayza Christina Montenegro Stamford, José Ricardo Dias Pereira, Andréa Gadelha Ribeiro Targino, André Galembeck, Aronita Rosenblatt

“…NSF and NaF dentifrices showed the same ability to avoid enamel demineralization corroborated by the OCT images. The NSF formulation had a better antibacterial effect compared to NaF dentifrices and similar action on the demineralization of enamel indicating their potential effectiveness to prevent caries.…”
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Effect of Iota-Carrageenan and Its Hydrolysates on the Stability of Milk Ice Cream Mixes by Anna Kot, Ewa Jakubczyk, Magdalena Buniowska-Olejnik, Anna Kamińska-Dwórznicka

“…The sedimentation, coalescence and flocculation were observed based on the backscattering profile and CLSM images. The addition of stabilisers contributed to an increase in D50 of ice cream mix from 17.56 to 37.05–45.50 µm before maturation and from 34.73 to 46.73 µm after maturation. …”
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Ionospheric Response to the Extreme 2024 Mother's Day Geomagnetic Storm Over the Latin American Sector by C. S. Carmo, L. Dai, C. M. Wrasse, D. Barros, H. Takahashi, C. A. O. B. Figueiredo, C. Wang, H. Li, Z. Liu

“…CHPI also features a Fabry‐Pérot interferometer (FPI) and an All‐Sky Imager (ASI). Super EPB was observed in the American sector. …”
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Retracted: Construction of visual evaluation system for building block night scene lighting based on multi‐target recognition and data processing by Xiaojian Wang, Xiaoye Sun, Zixuan Wang

“…Achieving good night lighting visual effects of building blocks can not only meet the needs of residents for entertainment and consumption at night, but also beautify the image of blocks and promote the economic development of building blocks. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Temperature and Time of the Process of Producing Graphene Quantum Dots by Carbonization on Structural, Microstructural, and Optical Properties by M. Nazari, H. R. Baharvandi, N. Ehsani

“…The microstructure was examined by field emission escanning electron microscopy images. Also, the morphology of the surface and the distance between the planes were investigated by high resolution transmission electron microscopy. …”
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Expert-analytical Support of Foreign Policy Activities by A. A. Varfolomeev, O. P. Ivanov, I. V. Surma, Y. A. Trefilova

“…The article contains the officials’ assessment of the main challenges when interacting with the scientific and expert community, as well as a "desired image" of such interaction.The study was held in two stages (stage I in February-October 2020, stage II-in January-August 2021) in the form of a survey with a set of follow-up interviews for a more detailed interpretation of the data obtained. …”
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Monitoring land changes at an open mine site using remote sensing and multi-spectral indices by Ikram Loukili, Ahmed Laamrani, Mustapha El Ghorfi, Saida El Moutak, Abdessamad ghafiri

“…The study examines spatio-temporal changes in land use and land cover (LULC) within this phosphate mining city to analyze the impacts of mining on agricultural areas, built-up lands, and water bodies over time. A series of images from 1984 to 2021 were processed in to assess patterns of change within the city. …”
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The Fractal Dimension of Nuclear Chromatin as a Prognostic Factor in Acute Precursor B Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Randall L. Adam, Rosana C. Silva, Fernanda G. Pereira, Neucimar J. Leite, Irene Lorand-Metze, Konradin Metze

“…In 28 patients, gray scale transformed pseudo-3D images of 100 nuclei (May–Grünwald–Giemsa stained bone marrow smears) were analyzed. …”
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Multiview Machine Vision Research of Fruits Boxes Handling Robot Based on the Improved 2D Kernel Principal Component Analysis Network by Xinning Li, Hu Wu, Xianhai Yang, Peng Xue, Shuai Tan

“…For the sake of the structure of the original image, the model of binary multiview 2D kernel principal component analysis network (BM2DKPCANet) was established to reduce the data redundancy and increase the correlation between the views. …”
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MD-Unet for tobacco leaf disease spot segmentation based on multi-scale residual dilated convolutions by Zili Chen, Yilong Peng, Jiadong Jiao, Aiguo Wang, Laigang Wang, Wei Lin, Yan Guo

“…Furthermore, the model parameters, floating-point operations, and inference time per single image for MD-Unet were 4.65 × 107, 2.3392 × 1011, and 65.096 ms, respectively. …”
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Halal or Not: Knowledge Graph Completion for Predicting Cultural Appropriateness of Daily Products by Van Thuy Hoang, Tien-Bach-Thanh do, Jinho Seo, Seung Charlie Kim, Luong Vuong Nguyen, Duong Nguyen Minh Huy, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, O-Joun Lee

“…Recently, various machine learning-based strategies, e.g., image-based methods, have shown remarkable success in predicting the halal status of cosmetics. …”
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A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents by Omar Tayan, Muhammad N. Kabir, Yasser M. Alginahi

“…Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing the challenge of sensitive plain-text media under known constraints. …”
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