Prevalence of breast fibroadenoma in healthy physical examination population in Guangdong province of China: a cross-sectional study by Yingjia Li, Lijun Zhu, Xiaoqi Zeng, Shanshan Jiang, Simin Ruan, Huanrong Ma, Changsheng Ye, Jianyu Dong

“…From 1 June 2019 to 31 December 2019, 342 breast lesions with pathology reports and preoperative ultrasound images were collected for diagnostic fibroadenoma testing (vs histological diagnostic testing).Primary outcome measures Pearson’s χ2 test was performed to compare the prevalence of different lesions between age groups, and descriptive statistics were used to report the clinical characteristics of fibroadenoma. …”
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Dual Functions of Androgen Receptor Overexpression in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Complex Prognostic Marker by Umay Kiraz, Emma Rewcastle, Silja K. Fykse, Ingrid Lundal, Einar G. Gudlaugsson, Ivar Skaland, Håvard Søiland, Jan P. A. Baak, Emiel A. M. Janssen

“…In a population-based TNBC cohort (<i>n</i> = 198) with long follow-up (4–383 months), AR expression was evaluated via subjective scoring (AR-Manual) and automated digital image analysis (AR-DIA). A 10% cut-off value via AR-DIA was the strongest negative prognostic threshold for distant metastases (<i>p</i> = 0.008). …”
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γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Metabolic Bypass Plays a Crucial Role in Stress Tolerance and Biofilm Formation in <i>C. sakazakii</i> ATCC 29544 by Jiangchao Wu, Yigang Yu, Fengsong Liu, Yifang Cao, Jiahao Ren, Yiting Fan, Xinglong Xiao

“…The deletion of <i>gabT</i> resulted in enhanced GABA accumulation under different stress conditions, improving the bacterium’s tolerance to desiccation, osmotic pressure, and acid treatment. SEM images revealed that under identical stress conditions, the <i>gabT</i> knockout strain exhibited less cellular damage compared to the wild-type strain. …”
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Serum CD4 Is Associated with the Infiltration of CD4+T Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment of Gastric Cancer by Qi You, Tianyi Fang, Xin Yin, Yimin Wang, Yongheng Yang, Lei Zhang, Yingwei Xue

“…The areas with specific CD4+T cells, CD8+T cells, and CD19+B cells within the tumor microenvironment were measured in paraffin sections by immunohistochemistry and analyzed by Image-Pro Plus. 94 patients had low CD4, and 124 patients had high CD4 levels. 31 patients had low CD8, and 187 patients had high CD8 levels. 64 patients had low CD19, and 154 patients had high CD19 levels. …”
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Dosimetry and Comparison between Different CT Protocols (Low Dose, Ultralow Dose, and Conventional CT) for Lung Nodules’ Detection in a Phantom by Cleverson Alex Leitão, Gabriel Lucca de Oliveira Salvador, Priscilla Tazoniero, Danny Warszawiak, Cristian Saievicz, Rosangela Requi Jakubiak, Dante Luiz Escuissato

“…Four chest radiologists analyzed a selected image from each protocol and registered in diagrams the nodules they detected. …”
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Diagnosis of Malignant Endometrial Lesions from Ultrasound Radiomics Features and Clinical Variables Using Machine Learning Methods by Shanshan Li, Jiali Wang, Li Zhou, Hui Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Jian Hu, Qingxiu Ai

“…We sketched the region of interest (ROI) of the abnormalities on the ultrasound images. Then, the radiomics features were extracted. …”
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Early Detection of Microvascular Changes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus without and with Diabetic Retinopathy: Comparison between Different Swept-Source OCT-A Instruments by Stela Vujosevic, Caterina Toma, Edoardo Villani, Valentina Gatti, Marco Brambilla, Andrea Muraca, Maria Chantal Ponziani, Gianluca Aimaretti, Alessandro Nuzzo, Paolo Nucci, Stefano De Cilla’

“…All quantitative analyses were performed using ImageJ and included vessel and perfusion density, area and circularity index of the FAZ, and vascular complexity parameters. …”
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Subjective and objective stress during body exposure: a comparison of adolescents with anorexia nervosa versus high body dissatisfaction by Valeska Stonawski, Louisa Kuper, Nicolas Rohleder, Gunther H. Moll, Hannah Fischer, Anne-Christine Plank, Tanja Legenbauer, Oliver Kratz, Stefanie Horndasch

“…As a clinical core symptom and a relevant maintaining factor of AN, body image disturbance and BD are highly relevant target variables for therapeutic interventions. …”
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Improved SED-fitting Assumptions Result in Inside-out Quenching at z ~ 0.5 and Quenching at All Radii Simultaneously at z ~ 1 by Alexander de la Vega, Susan A. Kassin, Camilla Pacifici, Stéphane Charlot, Emma Curtis-Lake, Jacopo Chevallard, Timothy M. Heckman, Anton M. Koekemoer, Weichen Wang

“…We then perform radial SED fits to multiband flux profiles measured from Hubble Space Telescope images for 1440 galaxies at 0.4 <  z  < 1.5 of stellar masses 10 ^10 –10 ^11.5 M _⊙ using both the traditional and the more physically motivated assumptions. …”
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Artificial intelligence-based spatial analysis of tertiary lymphoid structures and clinical significance for endometrial cancer by Haruka Suzuki, Kohei Hamada, Junzo Hamanishi, Akihiko Ueda, Ryusuke Murakami, Mana Taki, Rin Mizuno, Koichi Watanabe, Hanako Sato, Yuko Hosoe, Hiroaki Ito, Koji Yamanoi, Hiroyuki Yoshitomi, Nobuyuki Kakiuchi, Ken Yamaguchi, Noriomi Matsumura, Seishi Ogawa, Hideki Ueno, Masaki Mandai

“…To comprehensively investigate the distribution of TLSs, we developed an artificial intelligence model to detect TLSs and determine their spatial locations in whole-slide images. Our model effectively quantified TLSs, and TLSs were detected in 69% of the patients with EC. …”
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Stent-graft implantation for late postpancreatectomy hemorrhage after pancreatoduodenectomy by Xiaoye Li, Shibo Xia, Liangxi Yuan, Lei Zhang, Chao Song, Xiaolong Wei, Qingsheng Lu

“…Patients' medical and radiologic images were retrospectively reviewed. Technical and clinical success, complications, and stent-graft patency were evaluated. …”
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Trends to shorter diagnostic delay in spondyloarthritis patients during the last decades and association with clinical presentation: data from ASAS-COMOSPA study by Robert Landewé, Désirée van der Heijde, Filip van den Bosch, Maxime Dougados, Anna Molto, Stefan Siebert, Juergen Braun, Yuko Kaneko, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Martin Soubrier, Atsuo Taniguchi, Masato Okada, Alain Cantagrel, Shigeto Kobayashi, Jon Packham, Philippe Goupille, Rene-Marc Flipo, Alain Saraux, Philippe Gaudin, Roberto Caporali, Raj Sengupta, James Cheng-Chung Wei, Tetsuya Tomita, Fernando Pimentel-Santos, Alberto Ortiz, Gaëlle Varkas, Alejandro Martínez, Shigeyoshi Tsuji, Alejandro Alvarellos, José Maldonado-Cocco, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Fadoua Allali, Raquel Almodovar González, Elena Alonso Blanco-Morales, Maria Aparicio Espinar, Pamir Atagunduz, Pauline Bakker, Leila Benbrahim, Bahia Benchekroun, Alberto Berman, Pedro Carvalho, Gustavo Casado, Francisco Colombres, Eugenio del Miguel Mendieta, Vanesa Duarte, Cristina Fernandez Carballido, Manuel Fernandez-Prada, Pilar Font Ugalde, Dolors Grados Cánovas, Jordi Gratacós Masmitjá, Vittorio Grosso, Naomi Ichikawa, Hisashi Inoue, Taku Kawasaki, Manjari Lahiri, Hernán Maldonado-Ficco, Kazuo Matsui, Ramón Mazzuchelli Esteban, Corinne Micelli, Chisun Min, Mitsuhiro Morita, Juan Mulero Mendoza, Gisela Pendón, Dora Pereira, Hanan Rkain, Oscar Rillo, Carlos Rodriguez Lozano, Adrián Salas, Carlos Salinas-Ramos, Amelia Santosa, Caroline Spiegel, Carmen Stolwijk, Kurisu Tada, Naoho Takizawa, Chung Tei Chou, Lay-Keng Teoh, Wen-Chan Tsai, Olga Tsyplenkova, Kiana Vakil-Gilani, Rafael Valle-Oñate, Virginia Villaverde, Ai Yap, Pedro Zarco Montejo, Juan C Barreira, Juan D Diaz-Garcia, Michel De Bandt, Astrid van Tubergen, Rodolfo Pérez-Alamino, T Marhadour, Christian Waimann, Mari CruzFernandez Espartero, Jose Raul NogueraPons, José A PereiradaSilva

“…Better disease knowledge and more accessibility to new image technology could have a positive impact on time to diagnosis.Objectives The objectives are (1) to evaluate trends in time to diagnosis in SpA patients during the last decades and (2) to determine the association between clinical presentation and diagnostic delay.Methods Cross-sectional, retrospective international study, including 3984 patients with SpA diagnosis.Statistical analysis Delay in diagnosis was calculated and patients were stratified according to decade of disease onset and initial clinical presentation. …”
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Leveraging Comprehensive Echo Data to Power Artificial Intelligence Models for Handheld Cardiac Ultrasound by D.M. Anisuzzaman, PhD, Jeffrey G. Malins, PhD, John I. Jackson, PhD, Eunjung Lee, PhD, Jwan A. Naser, MBBS, Behrouz Rostami, PhD, Grace Greason, BA, Jared G. Bird, MD, Paul A. Friedman, MD, Jae K. Oh, MD, Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, Jeremy J. Thaden, MD, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, MD, MSc, MBA, Zachi I. Attia, PhD, Sorin V. Pislaru, MD, PhD, Garvan C. Kane, MD, PhD

“…Conclusion: Robust TTE datasets can be used to effectively power HCU deep learning models, which in turn demonstrates focused diagnostic images can be obtained with handheld devices.…”
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Severe pneumonia due to concurrent Legionella pneumophila and Acinetobacter baumannii infections: a case report by Xiaoming Yang, Zhongda Liu, Xiaojing Liu, Quan Li, Hui Huang, Yibo Wei, Tao Sun

“…His clinical symptoms gradually subsided. The repeat chest CT image showed no infiltration or pleural effusion. …”
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Large Language Models in Dental Licensing Examinations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mingxin Liu, Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Wenbo Huang, Atsushi Ogihara, Hikari Sophia Nagao, Hiroko Okada, Takahiro Kiuchi

“…The lack of sufficient training data in dentistry has affected LLMs’ accuracy. The reliance on image-based diagnostics also presents challenges. …”
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Anti-NMDAR-Positive Small-Cell Lung Cancer Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Raman Sohal, Steven H. Adams, Vishal Phogat, Abha Harish, Carlos Ynigo D. Lopez, Michael P. A. Williams, Kamal K. Khurana, Basel Abuzuaiter, Nia Jagroop, Bhavya Narapureddy

“…MRI showed equivocal increased FLAIR on T2-weighted images in the bilateral temporal lobes, left greater than right. …”
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The Sunburst Arc with JWST. III. An Abundance of Direct Chemical Abundances by Brian Welch, T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, Jane R. Rigby, Taylor A. Hutchison, Grace M. Olivier, Danielle A. Berg, Keren Sharon, Håkon Dahle, M. Riley Owens, Matthew B. Bayliss, Gourav Khullar, John Chisholm, Matthew Hayes, Keunho J. Kim

“…We detect the temperature-sensitive auroral lines [S ii ] λλ 4070, 4076, [O iii ] λ 4363, [S iii ] λ 6314, [O ii ] λλ 7320, 7330, and [Ne iii ] λ 3343 in a stacked spectrum of five multiple images of the Lyman-continuum emitter (LCE), from which we directly measure the electron temperature in the low-, intermediate-, and high-ionization zones. …”
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Ultrasound-guided vs. fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous leverage reduction for severely displaced radial neck fractures in children: a comparative analysis of clinical and radiologic... by Xing Wu, Jingdong Xia, Xiongtao Li, Xiaoliang Chen, Si Wang, Xiantao Shen

“…Additionally, the US group had a significantly lower number of FL images and radiation dose (3.59 ± 1.57 times, 9.56 ± 6.08 mGy) than the FL group (22.26 ± 8.07 times, 69.68 ± 34.70 mGy; P < 0.001). …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Land Cover Mapping in Franciacorta Wine Growing Area by Girma Tariku, Isabella Ghiglieno, Andres Sanchez Morchio, Luca Facciano, Celine Birolleau, Anna Simonetto, Ivan Serina, Gianni Gilioli

“…This study addresses these gaps by presenting a methodology for semantic segmentation of land covers in agricultural areas using satellite images and deep learning models with pre-trained backbones. …”
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Impact of quality of life on overall work productivity impairment and activity impairment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: the PEONY study by Yoshiya Tanaka, Shintaro Hirata, Shingo Nakayamada, Yusuke Miyazaki, Kazuyoshi Saito, Kunihiro Yamaoka, Shigeru Iwata, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Keisuke Nakatsuka, Shunpei Kosaka, Katsuhide Kusaka, Toshiki Yabe-Wada, Masakazu Fujiwara, Yoshifumi Arita, Mitsuru Hoshino, Naoko Ozaki

“…Among patients in LLDAS, overall work productivity impairment was significantly associated with the LupusPRO domains Desires-Goals, Body Image and Pain Vitality, and activity impairment was significantly associated with the LupusPRO domains Pain Vitality, Physical Health and Lupus Symptoms.Conclusions Patients with SLE in LLDAS still experience symptoms associated with activity impairment. …”
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