Enhanced thyroid nodule detection and diagnosis: a mobile-optimized DeepLabV3+ approach for clinical deployments by Changan Yang, Muhammad Awais Ashraf, Mudassar Riaz, Pascal Umwanzavugaye, Kavimbi Chipusu, Hongyuan Huang, Yueqin Xu

“…A high IoU value in medical imaging analysis reflects the model’s ability to accurately delineate object boundaries.ConclusionDeepLabV3+ represents a significant advancement in thyroid nodule segmentation, particularly for thyroid cancer screening and diagnosis. …”
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Prevention of Cardiometabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents Using Machine Learning and Noninvasive Factors: The CASPIAN-V Study by Hamid Reza Marateb, Mahsa Mansourian, Amirhossein Koochekian, Mehdi Shirzadi, Shadi Zamani, Marjan Mansourian, Miquel Angel Mañanas, Roya Kelishadi

“…We applied the XGBoost algorithm to analyze key noninvasive variables, including self-rated health, sunlight exposure, screen time, consanguinity, healthy and unhealthy dietary habits, discretionary salt and sugar consumption, birthweight, and birth order, father and mother education, oral hygiene behavior, and family history of dyslipidemia, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes using five-fold cross-validation. …”
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Health-Related Quality-of-Life Utility Values in Adults With Late-Onset Pompe Disease: Analyses of EQ-5D Data From the PROPEL Clinical Trial by Alison Griffiths, Simon Shohet, Neil Johnson, Alasdair MacCulloch

“…In PROPEL, EQ-5D-5L values were assessed at screening and at weeks 12, 26, 38, and 52. EQ-5D-5L utility values were mapped to EQ-5D-3L values using the van Hout algorithm as recommended by the EuroQoL and the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence position statement at time of analysis. …”
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Retinal Microvascular Characteristics—Novel Risk Stratification in Cardiovascular Diseases by Alexandra Cristina Rusu, Klara Brînzaniuc, Grigore Tinica, Clément Germanese, Simona Irina Damian, Sofia Mihaela David, Raluca Ozana Chistol

“…This study aims to identify the retinal microvascular features associated with CHDs and evaluate their potential use in a CHD screening algorithm in conjunction with traditional risk factors. …”
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Thirty-day mortality risk prediction for geriatric patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery in the surgical intensive care unit by Mengke Ma, Jiatong Liu, Caiyun Li, Yingxue Chen, Huishu Jia, Aijie Hou, Hongzeng Xu

“…The least absolute shrinkage selection operator (LASSO) regularization algorithm and the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) for feature importance evaluation were used to screen important predictors. …”
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End-to-end deep fusion of hyperspectral imaging and computer vision techniques for rapid detection of wheat seed quality by Tingting Zhang, Jing Li, Jinpeng Tong, Yihu Song, Li Wang, Renye Wu, Xuan Wei, Yuanyuan Song, Rensen Zeng

“…Applying this model to seed lot screening increased the proportion of high-quality seeds from 47.7 % to 93.4 %. …”
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Diagnosing facial synkinesis using artificial intelligence to advance facial palsy care by Leonard Knoedler, Christian Festbaum, Jillian Dean, Helena Baecher, Grégoire de Lambertye, Maximilian Maul, Thomas Schaschinger, Tobias Niederegger, Alexandra Scheiflinger, Michael Alfertshofer, Khalil Sherwani, Claudius Steffen, Max Heiland, Steffen Koerdt, Samuel Knoedler, Andreas Kehrer

“…This study aimed to develop a cost-effective, rapid, and accurate artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithm to screen FP patients for facial synkinesis. …”
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Design and optimization of planetary gear train pendulum type sugarcane seeding mechanism based on spatial offset trajectory by Jiaodi Liu, Chaoyuan Luo, Qingli Chen, Jianhao Chen, Jianlong Chen, Yihao Xing

“…Based on the speed requirements of the sugarcane seeds at the critical motion points, a forward kinematics model of this seeding mechanism is established. A multi-objective genetic algorithm combined with the entropy-weight TOPSIS method is used to optimize and screen the installation dimensions of the components of the mechanism so as to keep the motion of the sugarcane seeds stable at the critical positions. …”
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Multimodal ultrasound radiomics containing microflow images for the prediction of central lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma by Jiangyuan Ben, Jiangyuan Ben, Qiying Yv, Pengfei Zhu, Junhao Ren, Pu Zhou, Guifang Chen, Ying He, Ying He

“…The same methods were applied to screen clinical features. Nine ML algorithms were used to construct clinical models, radiomics models and fusion models. …”
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Mapping the EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-LC13 to the SF-6D utility index in patients with lung cancer using machine learning and traditional regression methods by Longlin Jiang, Kexun Li, Simiao Lu, Zhou Hong, Yifang Wang, Qin Xie, Qin He, Sirui Wei, Aoru Zhou, Hong Kang, Xuefeng Leng, Qing Yang, Yan Miao

“…The performance metrics used to evaluate the models including R 2 , root mean square error (RMSE),mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) were used to screen the optimal model. …”
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Hyperspectral estimation of chlorophyll density in winter wheat using fractional-order derivative combined with machine learning by Chenbo Yang, Chenbo Yang, Meichen Feng, Juan Bai, Hui Sun, Rutian Bi, Lifang Song, Chao Wang, Yu Zhao, Wude Yang, Lujie Xiao, Meijun Zhang, Xiaoyan Song

“…In conclusion, based on the winter wheat ChD data set and the corresponding canopy hyperspectral data set, combined with 3 FOD calculation methods, 1 band screening method, and 8 modeling algorithms, this study constructed hyperspectral monitoring models for winter wheat ChD. …”
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Analyzing adjustment and verification errors in electric metering devices for smart power systems considering multiple environmental factors by Chuanliang He, Xin Xia, Bo Zhang, Wei Kang, Jinxia Zhang, Haipeng Chen

“…Then, an error adjustment model based on gated recurrent unit-attention is constructed, and the particle swarm optimization algorithm is adopted for the purpose of optimizing hyperparameters. …”
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Data-Driven Battery Remaining Life Prediction Based on ResNet with GA Optimization by Jixiang Zhou, Weijian Huang, Haiyan Dai, Chuang Wang, Yuhua Zhong

“…To this end, this paper proposes a data-driven lithium-ion battery life prediction method based on residual network (ResNet) and genetic algorithm (GA) optimization, which is designed to screen the features of the lithium-ion battery training data in order to effectively reduce the redundant features and improve the prediction performance of the model. …”
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Prediction of Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay of Some Drugs from their Theoretically Calculated Molecular Descriptors by E. Konoz, Amir H. M. Sarrafi, S. Ardalani

“…In the present work, the permeation of miscellaneous drugs measured as flux by PAMPA (logF) of 94 drugs, are predicted by quantitative structure property relationships modeling based on a variety of calculated theoretical descriptors, which screened and selected by genetic algorithm (GA) variable subset selection procedure. …”
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Predicting cardiotoxicity in drug development: A deep learning approach by Kaifeng Liu, Huizi Cui, Xiangyu Yu, Wannan Li, Weiwei Han

“…We used four types of molecular fingerprints and descriptors combined with machine learning and deep learning algorithms, including Gaussian naive Bayes (NB), random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and Transformer models, to build predictive models. …”
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FDTooth: Intraoral Photographs and CBCT Images for Fenestration and Dehiscence Detection by Keyuan Liu, Marawan Elbatel, Guang Chu, Zhiyi Shan, Fung Hou Kumoi Mineaki Howard Sum, Kuo Feng Hung, Chengfei Zhang, Xiaomeng Li, Yanqi Yang

“…The developed dataset and model can serve as valuable resources for research on interdisciplinary dental diagnostics, offering clinicians a non-invasive, efficient method for early FD screening without invasive procedures.…”
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An interpretable disruption predictor on EAST using improved XGBoost and SHAP by D.M. Liu, X.L. Zhu, Y.S. Jiang, S. Wang, S.B. Shu, B. Shen, B.H. Guo, L.C. Liu

“…Based on the physical characteristics of the disruption, 2094 disruption shots and 4858 non-disruption shots from 2022 to 2024 were screened as training shots, and then the disruption prediction model was trained using the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm from training samples consisting of 16 diagnostic signals, such as plasma current, density, and radiation. …”
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Exploration of the Prognostic Markers of Multiple Myeloma Based on Cuproptosis‐Related Genes by Xiao‐Han Gao, Jun Yuan, Xiao‐Xia Zhang, Rui‐Cang Wang, Jie Yang, Yan Li, Jie Li

“…Additionally, key module genes were identified through weighted gene co‐expression network analysis. A univariate Cox algorithm and multivariate Cox analysis were employed to obtain biomarkers of MM and build a prognostic model before conducting independent prognostic analysis. …”
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Role of arachidonic acid metabolism in osteosarcoma prognosis by integrating WGCNA and bioinformatics analysis by Yaling Wang, Peichun HSU, Haiyan Hu, Feng Lin, Xiaokang Wei

“…An AA metabolism predictive model of the five AAMRGs were established by Cox regression and the LASSO algorithm. …”
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ATP6AP1 drives pyroptosis-mediated immune evasion in hepatocellular carcinoma: a machine learning-guided therapeutic target by Lei Tang, Xiyue Wang, Zhengzheng Xia, Jiayu Yan, Shanshan Lin

“…Results Through a rigorous multi-algorithm screening process, ATP6AP1 was found to be a highly reliable biomarker with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.979. …”
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