Detectability of Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis with Transient Elastography and Controlled Attenuation Parameter in Residents of St. Petersburg by V. P. Kovyazina, K. L. Raikhelson, M. K. Prashnova, E. V. Pazenko, L. K. Palgova, E. A. Kondrashina

“…Petersburg warrants improved diagnostic algorithms and routine preventive measures. Transient elastography with the controlled attenuation parameter estimation provides a convenient non-invasive screening for hepatic fibrosis and steatosis.…”
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Identification of novel cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors from marine natural products. by Abhijit Debnath, Rupa Mazumder, Anil Kumar Singh, Rajesh Kumar Singh

“…These 25 candidates underwent consensus molecular docking using seven distinct algorithms: AutoDockTools 4.2, idock, LeDock, Qvina 2, Smina, AutoDock Vina 1.2.0, PLANTS, and rDock. …”
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The Clinical Significance of the Dense Fine Speckled Immunofluorescence Pattern on HEp-2 Cells for the Diagnosis of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases by Michael Mahler, Marvin J. Fritzler

“…The indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) assay on HEp-2 cells is a commonly used test for the detection of ANA and has been recently recommended as the screening test of choice by a task force of the American College of Rheumatology. …”
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Determining optimal strategies for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a synopsis of an evidence synthesis study by Olalekan A Uthman, Lena Al-Khudairy, Chidozie Nduka, Rachel Court, Jodie Enderby, Seun Anjorin, Hema Mistry, G J Melendez-Torres, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Aileen Clarke

“…A machine learning study developed a parallel Convolutional Neural Network algorithm with 96.4% recall and 99.1% precision for study screening. …”
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Neutrophil- and Endothelial Cell-Derived Extracellular Microvesicles Are Promising Putative Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Diagnosis by Thayse Batista Moreira, Marina Malheiros Araújo Silvestrini, Ana Luiza de Freitas Magalhães Gomes, Kerstin Kapp Rangel, Álvaro Percínio Costa, Matheus Souza Gomes, Laurence Rodrigues do Amaral, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Paulo Guilherme de Oliveira Salles, Letícia Conceição Braga, Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho

“…Machine learning approaches were employed to determine the performance of MVs to identify BC and to propose BC classifier algorithms. <b>Results:</b> Patients with BC had more neutrophil- and endothelial cell-derived MVs than controls before treatment. …”
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RRBM-YOLO: Research on Efficient and Lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks for Underground Coal Gangue Identification by Yutong Wang, Ziming Kou, Cong Han, Yuchen Qin

“…Coal gangue identification is the primary step in coal flow initial screening, which mainly faces problems such as low identification efficiency, complex algorithms, and high hardware requirements. …”
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Comparative performance of deep learning architectures for diabetic peripheral neuropathy detection using corneal confocal microscopy: a retrospective single-centre study by Yuyang Deng, Wenqu Chen, Weihuang Xu, Jianzhang Hu

“…For single-image predictions in the three-class classification task of CCM images, the InceptionV3 model achieved a precision of 0.8385, a recall of 0.9083, an F1 score of 0.8720 and an AUC of 0.8769 for predicting DPN+.Conclusions The InceptionV3-based DLA model achieved superior performance compared with traditional convolutional neural network architectures like ResNet and DenseNet, and the Swin transformer model, highlighting its potential for effective DPN screening.…”
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A Fuzzy Supplier Selection Application Using Large Survey Datasets of Delivery Performance by Jonathan Davis, Margaret F. Shipley, Gary Stading

“…A model is developed using fuzzy probability to screen survey data across relevant criteria for selecting suppliers based on fuzzy expected values. …”
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Research and application of image recognition-based identification for flesh browning of loquat fruits by CHEN Yujia, DENG Chaojun, ZHANG Tingting, WANG Xiuping, CHEN Xiuping, ZHAO Jianing, MA Cuilan, JIANG Jimou

“…The Euclidean distance algorithm indicated that the percentage of browning area in the white flesh type was significantly higher than that in the red flesh type. …”
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Construction of mitochondrial signature (MS) for the prognosis of ovarian cancer by Miao Ao, You Wu, Kunyu Wang, Haixia Luo, Wei Mao, Anqi Zhao, Xiaomeng Su, Yan Song, Bin Li

“…After univariate Cox analysis, prognostic genes were carried out for modeling mitochondria signature (MS) based on 101 combinations of 10 machine learning algorithms. …”
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Canadian Thoracic Society Recommendations for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – 2008 Update – Highlights for Primary Care by Denis E O’Donnell, Paul Hernandez, Alan Kaplan, Shawn Aaron, Jean Bourbeau, Darcy Marciniuk, Meyer Balter, Gordon Ford, Andre Gervais, Yves Lacasse, Francois Maltais, Jeremy Road, Graeme Rocker, Don Sin, Tasmin Sinuff, Nha Voduc

“…Three key messages contained in the update are: use targeted screening spirometry to establish a diagnosis and initiate prompt management (including smoking cessation) of mild COPD; improve dyspnea and activity limitation in stable COPD using new evidence-based treatment algorithms; and understand the importance of preventing and managing acute exacerbations, particularly in moderate to severe disease.…”
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Neurological post-COVID syndrome is associated with substantial impairment of verbal short-term and working memory by Jeyanthan Charles James, Hannah Schulze, Nadine Siems, Christian Prehn, Daniel R. Quast, Nadine Trampe, Ralf Gold, Simon Faissner

“…Neurologic PCS patients had more complaints with significantly higher fatigue scores as well as higher levels of depressive and anxiety symptoms compared to Non-PCS and HC. …”
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Prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV and respiratory symptoms in two Zambian communities: implications for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV. by Helen Ayles, Albertus Schaap, Amos Nota, Charalambos Sismanidis, Ruth Tembwe, Petra De Haas, Monde Muyoyeta, Nulda Beyers, Peter Godfrey-Faussett for the ZAMSTAR Study Team

“…Epidemiological studies can inform screening algorithms for both detection and prevention of active tuberculosis.…”
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The application of compressed sensing on tumor mutation burden calculation from overlapped pooling sequencing data by Yue Cui, Yi Qiao, Rongming An, Xuan Pan, Jing Tu

“…Additionally, we performed an assessment of the reconstruction efficiency of both the BP model and the OMP model.…”
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Neutrophil extracellular traps-related genes contribute to sepsis-associated acute kidney injury by Tang Shaoqun, Yu Xi, Wang Wei, Luo Yaru, Lei Shaoqing, Qiu Zhen, Yang Yanlin, Sun Qian, Xia Zhongyuan

“…Differentially expressed genes were screened by “limma” package in R. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator algorithm was applied to identify the hub genes. …”
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Perceived age estimation from facial image and demographic data in young and middle-aged South Korean adults by Ilkoo Ahn, Younghwa Baek, Bok-Nam Seo, Su Eun Lim, Kyoungsik Jung, Ho Seok Kim, Jeongkyun Kim, Sukyung Lee, Siwoo Lee

“…The averaging models of Lasso, XGBoost, and CatBoost showed a mean absolute error of 2.2944, indicating that this algorithm can be used as a screening method for general health status in the population.…”
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Robustness evaluation of commercial liveness detection platform by Pengcheng WANG, Haibin ZHENG, Jianfei ZOU, Ling PANG, Hu LI, Jinyin CHEN

“…Liveness detection technology has become an important application in daily life, and it is used in scenarios including mobile phone face unlock, face payment, and remote authentication.However, if attackers use fake video generation technology to generate realistic face-swapping videos to attack the living body detection system in the above scenarios, it will pose a huge threat to the security of these scenarios.Aiming at this problem, four state-of-the-art Deepfake technologies were used to generate a large number of face-changing pictures and videos as test samples, and use these samples to test the online API interfaces of commercial live detection platforms such as Baidu and Tencent.The test results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images is generally very low by the major commercial live detection platforms currently used, and they are more sensitive to the quality of images, and the false detection rate of real images is also high.The main reason for the analysis may be that these platforms were mainly designed for traditional living detection attack methods such as printing photo attacks, screen remake attacks, and silicone mask attacks, and did not integrate advanced face-changing detection technology into their liveness detection.In the algorithm, these platforms cannot effectively deal with Deepfake attacks.Therefore, an integrated live detection method Integranet was proposed, which was obtained by integrating four detection algorithms for different image features.It could effectively detect traditional attack methods such as printed photos and screen remakes.It could also effectively detect against advanced Deepfake attacks.The detection effect of Integranet was verified on the test data set.The results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images by proposed Integranet detection method is at least 35% higher than that of major commercial live detection platforms.…”
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A clinical scoring system to prioritise investigation for tuberculosis among adults attending HIV clinics in South Africa. by Yasmeen Hanifa, Katherine L Fielding, Violet N Chihota, Lungiswa Adonis, Salome Charalambous, Nicola Foster, Alan Karstaedt, Kerrigan McCarthy, Mark P Nicol, Nontobeko T Ndlovu, Edina Sinanovic, Faieza Sahid, Wendy Stevens, Anna Vassall, Gavin J Churchyard, Alison D Grant

“…<h4>Participants</h4>Representative sample of adult HIV clinic attendees; data from participants reporting ≥1 symptom on the WHO screening tool were split 50:50 to derive, then internally validate, a prediction model.…”
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Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…We also wanted to know whether adding phone calls from a physiotherapist made the website more effective. Finally, we explored whether these options would represent ‘good value for money’ for the National Health Service. …”
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Sweetener identification using transfer learning and attention mechanism by Fanchao Lin, Yuan Ji, Shoujiang Xu

“…Accurate identification of the taste of compounds has helped in the screening and development of new sweeteners. This study proposes a deep learning model for sweetener identification based on transfer learning and attention mechanism. …”
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