Advancing Healthcare: Intelligent Speech Technology for Transcription, Disease Diagnosis, and Interactive Control of Medical Equipment in Smart Hospitals by Ahmed Elhadad, Safwat Hamad, Noha Elfiky, Fulayjan Alanazi, Ahmed I. Taloba, Rasha M. Abd El-Aziz

“…The federated learning framework enabled collaborative model training across multiple hospital sites, preserving patient privacy by avoiding raw data exchange. This distributed approach allowed the model to learn from diverse, real-world data while ensuring compliance with strict data protection standards. …”
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Developing an artificial intelligence-based progressive growing GAN for high-quality facial profile generation and evaluation through turing test and aesthetic analysis by Shahab Kavousinejad, Kazem Dalaie, Mohammad Behnaz, Soodeh Tahmasbi, Asghar Ebadifar, Hoori Mirmohammadsadeghi

“…This approach offers valuable applications in orthodontic education, treatment simulation, and data augmentation, particularly where patient privacy and dataset balance are critical. …”
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Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network-Based Intrusion Detection System for Secure IoT Networks by Sami Qawasmeh, Ahmad Habboush, Bassam Elzaghmouri, Qasem Kharma, Da'ad Albalawneh

“…The training model defines the convolutional layer's structure, sliding window size, neuron connection weights, and outputs using the improved data. The training period is used for attack detection, and the weights are calculated from trained and real-time data. …”
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Gestión y evaluación del rendimiento en baloncesto: una revisión sistemática del software (Management and performance analysis in basketball: a systematic review of software) by Álvaro Bustamante, Pablo Burillo

“…Future studies will tackle data privacy and the improvement of the use of expert systems. …”
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Comparative effectiveness of missed dose protocols of opioid agonist treatment in British Columbia, Canada: protocol for a population-based target trial emulation by Paul Gustafson, Robert W Platt, Bohdan Nosyk, Jeong Eun Min, Md Belal Hossain, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Shaun Seaman, Paxton Bach, Megan Kurz, Maria Eugenia Socías, Momenul Haque Mondol, Michelle Zanette

“…A range of sensitivity analyses will assess the robustness of our results, including cohort and timeline restriction, alternative definitions of exposure and outcome and alternative estimation strategies.Ethics and dissemination The protocol, cohort creation and analysis plan have been classified and approved as a quality improvement initiative by Providence Health Care Research Institute and the Simon Fraser University Office of Research Ethics. All data are deidentified, securely stored and accessed in accordance with provincial privacy regulations. …”
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Reproductive health problem among youths and associated factors in Dilla town, southern Ethiopia by Seblewongel Gebretsadik Sertsewold, Getachew Assefa Zenebe, Amanuel Yosef Gebrekidan

“…A survey of houses with young people was followed by the use of a systematic sampling technique. Data was gathered using pretested and structured questionnaires. …”
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The reliability and validity of a non-wearable indoor positioning system to assess mobility in older adults: A cross-sectional study. by Isabel B Rodrigues, Patricia Hewston, Jonathan Adachi, Sayem Borhan, George Ioannidis, Alexa Kouroukis, Carolyn Leckie, Andrea Lee, Alexander Rabinovich, Parthipan Siva, Rachel Swance, Suleman Tariq, Lehana Thabane, Alexandra Papaioannou

“…Currently, there is a lack of consensus on which assessments to use to assess walking speed and how to continuously monitor walking speed outside of the clinic. …”
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Integrating digital health into pediatric obesity management: Current practices and future perspectives by Vittoria Frattolillo, Alessia Massa, Dalila Capone, Noemi Monaco, Gianmario Forcina, Pierluigi Di Filippo, Pierluigi Marzuillo, Emanuele Miraglia del Giudice, Anna Di Sessa

“…Despite these advancements, DHIs still face major challenges, including unequal access, data privacy concerns, and a lack of long-term outcome evaluations. …”
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Experiences and Views of Older Adults of South Asian, Black African, and Caribbean Backgrounds About the Digitalization of Primary Care Services Since the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualit... by Nisar Ahmed, Alex Hall, Brenda Poku, Jane McDermott, Jayne Astbury, Chris Todd

“…Patient and public involvement and engagement were sought through collaboration with community organizations for focus group recruitment and feedback on the topic guide. Data were analyzed using framework analysis. …”
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The Applications of Large Language Models in Mental Health: Scoping Review by Yu Jin, Jiayi Liu, Pan Li, Baosen Wang, Yangxinyu Yan, Huilin Zhang, Chenhao Ni, Jing Wang, Yi Li, Yajun Bu, Yuanyuan Wang

“…Relevant information on application details and performance metrics was extracted during the data charting of eligible articles. ResultsA total of 95 articles were drawn from 4859 studies using LLMs for mental health tasks. …”
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Pragmatic, double-blind, randomised trial evaluating the impact of red blood cell donor sex on recipient mortality in an academic hospital population: the innovative Trial Assessin... by Dean A Fergusson, Alan J Forster, Alan Tinmouth, Kednapa Thavorn, Steven Hawken, Kumanan Wilson, Michaël Chasse, Shane English, Nadine Shehata, Jason P Acker, Angie Tuttle, Iris Perelman, Nancy Cober, Heather Maddison, Melanie Tokessy

“…An intent-to-treat analysis will be applied using all randomised and transfused patients. The principal analysis will be a survival analysis comparing the time from randomisation to death between patients allocated to male donor red blood cells (RBCs) and female donor RBCs.Ethics and dissemination Approval has been obtained from research ethics boards of all involved institutions, as well as from privacy offices of Canadian Blood Services, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science and The Ottawa Hospital Data Warehouse. …”
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Exploring Respectful Maternity Care and its determinants: a mixed methods cross-sectional study from a rural area in central India by Chullithala Athira, Anindo Majumdar, Roshan F. Sutar, Bharti Singh, Parvathy Thampy, Ashlesh Rupani, Deepti Dabar

“…Descriptive data is presented in frequency tables. Quantitative data were analyzed using logistic regression and qualitative data through thematic analysis. …”
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A Blockchain-Based E-Participation Framework Utilizing Zero-Knowledge Proofs With Guaranteed Sampling and Differential Reward Mechanisms by Jungwon Seo, Juhui Lee, Yunjae Joo, Kangho Lee, Vijayan Sugumaran, Sooyong Park

“…Blockchain-based E-participation systems significantly enhance transparency, data integrity, and security compared to traditional E-participation methods. …”
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Lightweight Encryption Technique to Enhance Medical Image Security on Internet of Medical Things Applications by Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Rossilawati Sulaiman, Sheroz Khan, Aisha-Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Shabana Habib, Mohammad Islam, Saleh Alyahya, Musse Mohamed Ahmed, Samar Kamil, Md Arif Hassan

“…Therefore, patients may lose the privacy of data contents since images are different from the text because of their two particular factors of loss of data and confidentiality. …”
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Digital assistants for education and support of patients with endocrine disorders by Milić Marko Kimi, Sinanović Šćepan, Prodović Tanja, Subotić Slobodan, Kilibarda Tatjana

“…However, challenges such as data privacy concerns, trust in technology, and acce-ssibility issues remain barriers to broader adoption. …”
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Iman di Era Digital: Praktik Konseling Pastoral Berbasis Teknologi Digital by Andreas Fredriko Simatupang, Gunawan Yuli Agung Suprabowo

“…However, there are also shortcomings such as a lack of mastery of digital technology among companions, data privacy and security issues, formal legitimacy from church authorities, as well as a potential reduction in the depth of interpersonal relationships. …”
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Enhancing heart disease classification with M2MASC and CNN-BiLSTM integration for improved accuracy by Vivek Pandey, Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Ranjan Walia, Roobaea Alroobaea, Majed Alsafyani, Abdullah M. Baqasah, Sultan Algarni

“…Blockchain integration ensures stored health data’s security, transparency, and immutability, addresses privacy concerns, and promotes trust in the predictive system. …”
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Implementing community-based interventions for the management of chronic conditions in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of qualitative evidence. by Syreen Hassan, Nancy Kagwanja, Brahima Diallo, Robinson Oyando, Pablo Perel, Anthony Etyang, Benjamin Tsofa, Ellen Nolte, IHCoR-Africa Collaborators

“…Eligible studies were those with a qualitative design that explored implementation challenges and facilitators of community-based interventions. Data were thematically analysed and interpreted using the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) to capture multi-level influences on implementation. …”
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HELA-CMM: capability maturity model for adoption of learning analytics in higher education by Diana Šimić, Nina Begičević Ređep, Sabina Rako, Nikola Kadoić, Wim Van Petegem, Bart Rienties, Nati Cabrera Lanzo, Michael Eichhorn, Lourdes Guàrdia, Sandra Kučina Softić, Alexander Tillmann

“…The proposed maturity model comprises 28 capabilities grouped into eight categories: (1) Teaching / Learning / Assessment, (2) Data Management and Analytics, (3) Ethics, Privacy, Legal Issues, (4) People Competences, (5) Management / Leadership, (6) Culture, (7) Infrastructure, and (8) Quality Assurance. …”
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A Deep Learning-Based Ensemble Framework for Robust Android Malware Detection by Sainag Nethala, Pronoy Chopra, Khaja Kamaluddin, Shahid Alam, Soltan Alharbi, Mohammad Alsaffar

“…The exponential growth of Android applications has resulted in a surge of malware threats, posing severe risks to user privacy and data security. To address these challenges, this study introduces a novel malware detection approach utilizing an ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for enhanced classification accuracy. …”
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