Advancements in Medical Radiology Through Multimodal Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Overview by Imran Ul Haq, Mustafa Mhamed, Mohammed Al-Harbi, Hamid Osman, Zuhal Y. Hamd, Zhe Liu

“…This review may help clinicians and researchers comprehend the spatial distribution of the field, outline the current level of advancement, and identify areas of research that need to be explored regarding MMML in radiology.…”
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Effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Organic Carbon Stock in Jira Watershed, Mid-Lands of Northern Ethiopia. by Guesh Assefa, Gebeyehu Taye, Kassa Teka

“…The highest SOC was gained due to the conversion of grazing land in to forest land (2007-2017) which has offered a total of 635.53 ton of SOC. A model was created to predict SOC of similar environments by using the observed SOC and NDVI values of the 2017 LULC types. …”
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Mitofilin–mtDNA Axis Mediates Chronic Lead Exposure-Induced Synaptic Plasticity Impairment of Hippocampal and Cognitive Deficits by Lihong Su, Jinchao Hou, Boxuan Wang, Yuqi Li, Xiaodong Huo, Tao Wang, Yuankang Zou, Gang Zheng

“…To elucidate the role and mechanism of the Mitofilin–mtDNA axis in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and learning and memory impairment induced by lead exposure, in this study, both in vivo and in vitro models were subjected to chronic lead exposure. The results showed that the spatial learning and memory abilities of lead-exposed mice were significantly reduced. …”
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Quantitative 3D reconstruction of viral vector distribution in rodent and ovine brain following local delivery by Roberta Poceviciute, Kenneth Mitchell, Angeliki Maria Nikolakopoulou, Suehyun K. Cho, Xiaobo Ma, Phillip Chen, Samantha Figueroa, Ethan J. Sarmiento, Aryan Singh, Oren Hartstein, William G. Loudon, Florent Cros, Alexander S. Kiselyov

“…This pipeline, which combined existing and newly developed machine-learning and other computational tools, effectively removed false positive artifacts abundant in large-scale images of uncleared tissue sections, and subsampling adequately predicted the dispersion of model viral vectors from the point of local drug delivery. …”
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A lightweight semantic segmentation method for concrete bridge surface diseases based on improved DeeplabV3+ by Zhiyuan Yu, Chunquan Dai, Xiaoming Zeng, Yunlong Lv, Haisheng Li

“…Firstly, the lightweight improved MobileNetV3 was used as the backbone network to reduce the computational complexity of the model. Secondly, the CSF-ASPP (cross scale fusion atrous spatial pyramid pooling) module was designed to expand the receptive field, enable the model to capture more contextual information at different scales and improve its anti-interference ability. …”
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Statistics and behavior of clinically significant extra-pulmonary vein atrial fibrillation sources: machine-learning-enhanced electrographic flow mapping in persistent atrial fibri... by Peter Ruppersberg, Steven Castellano, Philip Haeusser, Kostiantyn Ahapov, Melissa H. Kong, Stefan G. Spitzer, Stefan G. Spitzer, Georg Nölker, Andreas Rillig, Tamas Szili-Torok

“…Notably, the majority of significant sources were not continuously active; however, when these sources switched “ON,” the spatial variability of AF cycle lengths in the respective atrium decreased by more than 50%, suggesting an entraining effect.ConclusionsBy systematically optimizing the EGF Model's hyperparameters based on clinical outcomes, we reliably detect and target key AF sources that, when ablated, improve procedural success. …”
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A planning framework for intra-city electric bus road transportation systems by Yogesh Pandey, Praveen Kumar Agrawal, Nikhil Gupta, K.R. Niazi, Anil Swarnkar

“…The proposed framework envisages a bus fleet charging model and financial model within the spatial, technical, and financial constraints yet preserves the interests of electric utilities and investors by providing tentative solutions with all information necessary from the investor’s perspective. …”
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FECI-RTDETR a Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Infrared Small Target Detector Algorithm Based on RT-DETR by Renzheng Xue, Shijie Hua, Haiqiang Xu

“…The mAP50 and mAP50:95 metrics improved by 4.2% and 2.9%, respectively, with the mAP50 reaching 84.2%. This algorithmic model achieves a balance between resource reduction and accuracy enhancement while maintaining lightweight characteristics.…”
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The green potential of the digital economy in balancing economic growth and carbon emissions by Conghui Bai, Xuyang Du, Soo Yean Chua

“…This study aims to investigate the impact of digital economy on carbon efficiency across 287 Chinese cities from 2000 to 2021, based on benchmarks regression, threshold effect model, spatial effect regression, mechanism analysis, heterogeneity analysis, and difference-in-difference analysis. …”
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An efficient surface electromyography-based gesture recognition algorithm based on multiscale fusion convolution and channel attention by Bin Jiang, Hao Wu, Qingling Xia, Hanguang Xiao, Bo Peng, Li Wang, Yun Zhao

“…It uses fast dimensionality reduction, asymmetric convolution decomposition, and pooling to suppress the accumulation of parameters, then reducing the algorithmic complexity; The ECA is adopted to reweight the output features of Inception in different channels, enabling the RIE model to focus on information that is more relevant to gestures. 52-, 49-, and 52-class gesture recognition experiments are conducted on NinaPro DB1, DB3, and DB4 datasets, which contain 14,040, 3234, and 3120 gesture samples, respectively. …”
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Ecosystem services thresholds and interconnected feedback loops in the vulnerable Tarim River Basin: Confronting climate and vegetation transformations by Chun Luo, Xiaofei Ma, Yonghui Wang, Wei Yan, Yonglong Han, Wei Yu, Binbin Fan

“…Ecological thresholds play a key role in understanding ecosystem stability and vulnerability, and in predicting the impacts of future environmental changes. …”
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Lightweight Pepper Disease Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8n by Yuzhu Wu, Junjie Huang, Siji Wang, Yujian Bao, Yizhe Wang, Jia Song, Wenwu Liu

“…However, during its production process, chili peppers are affected by pests and diseases, resulting in significant yield reduction due to the temperature and environment. In this study, a lightweight pepper disease identification method, DD-YOLO, based on the YOLOv8n model, is proposed. …”
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Hand gestures classification of sEMG signals based on BiLSTM-metaheuristic optimization and hybrid U-Net-MobileNetV2 encoder architecture by Khosro Rezaee, Safoura Farsi Khavari, Mojtaba Ansari, Fatemeh Zare, Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh Roknabadi

“…Six standard databases were utilized, achieving an average accuracy of 90.23% with our proposed model, showcasing a 3–4% average accuracy improvement and a 10% variance reduction. …”
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Patterns and drivers of water-land resources nexus in arid inland river basins of northwestern China by Lingge Wang, Wei Liu, Qi Feng, Zhenliang Yin, Rui Zhu, Meng Zhu, Jutao Zhang, Yuanyuan Xue, Zexia Chen, Xuejiao Li

“…In this study, we evaluated and predicted water and land resource dynamics by combining the soil quality index function with MCE-CA-Markov and SWAT models. …”
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Design and Development of a Side Spray Device for UAVs to Improve Spray Coverage in Obstacle Neighborhoods by Fanrui Kong, Baijing Qiu, Xiaoya Dong, Kechuan Yi, Qingqing Wang, Chunxia Jiang, Xinwei Zhang, Xin Huang

“…The error between the predicted values of the relational model and the field experiment results was less than 15%. …”
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Multinomial logistic regression algorithm for the classification of patients with parkinsonisms by Eva Štokelj, Tomaž Rus, Jan Jamšek, Maja Trošt, Urban Simončič

“…This process involves spatial normalization of the images and dimensionality reduction via PCA. …”
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A Novel High-Precision Workpiece Self-Positioning Method for Improving the Convergence Ratio of Optical Components in Magnetorheological Finishing by Yiang Zhang, Pengxiang Wang, Chaoliang Guan, Meng Liu, Xiaoqiang Peng, Hao Hu

“…Although iterative processing can improve the surface accuracy, repeated tool paths tend to deteriorate mid-spatial frequency textures, and for complex surfaces such as aspheres, traditional manual alignment is time-consuming and lacks repeatability, significantly restricting the processing efficiency. …”
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Synergistic Enhancement of Carbon Sinks and Connectivity: Restoration and Renewal of Ecological Networks in Nanjing, China by Renfei Zhang, Hongye Li, Zhicheng Liu

“…This study used Nanjing, China, as a case to construct an ecological network by applying Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) and the Linkage Mapper (LM) tool based on circuit theory. …”
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Land Rental Transactions in Ethiopian Peri-Urban Areas: Sex and Other Factors for Land Rent Transactions by Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, Reinfried Mansberger, Moges Wubet Shita, Derjew Fentie Nurie, Ayelech Kidie Mengesha

“…The continuous reduction in peri-urban agricultural land due to spatial urban expansion forces subsistence farmers to seek arable land through different land access strategies. …”
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Seismic Attribute Extraction and Application Based on the Gabor Wavelet Transform by Ran Xiong, Xuri Huang, Liang Guo, Xuan Zou, Haonan Tian

“…This can be captured by machine learning and deep learning methods to stratigraphic segmentation as many people investigated in industry. However, the spatial variability and instability of the peaks and troughs of seismic signals increases the difficulty of applying this technology. …”
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