Prostate-specific membrane antigen in circulating tumor cells is a new poor prognostic marker for castration-resistant prostate cancer. by Naoya Nagaya, Masayoshi Nagata, Yan Lu, Mayuko Kanayama, Qi Hou, Zen-U Hotta, Toshiyuki China, Kosuke Kitamura, Kazuhito Matsushita, Shuji Isotani, Satoru Muto, Yoshiro Sakamoto, Shigeo Horie

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Enhancing deep learning methods for brain metastasis detection through cross-technique annotations on SPACE MRI by Tassilo Wald, Benjamin Hamm, Julius C. Holzschuh, Rami El Shafie, Andreas Kudak, Balint Kovacs, Irada Pflüger, Bastian von Nettelbladt, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Anton Baumgartner, Philipp Vollmuth, Jürgen Debus, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Thomas Welzel

“…We hypothesize that this better conspicuity leads to high-quality annotation (HAQ), enhancing deep learning (DL) algorithm detection of BMs on MPRAGE images. Methods Retrospective contrast-enhanced (gadobutrol 0.1 mmol/kg) SPACE and MPRAGE data of 157 patients with BM were used, either annotated on MPRAGE resulting in normal annotation quality (NAQ) or on coregistered SPACE resulting in HAQ. …”
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Novel bacterial cluster “Prevotella, Bacteroides and Suterella” associated with mortality in Mexican patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and clinical utility of sys... by Paula A. Castaño Jiménez, Tonatiuh A. Baltazar-Díaz, Rodrigo Hernández-Basulto, Mayra P. Padilla-Sánchez, Ksenia K. Kravtchenko, Roxana García-Salcido, María T. Tapia-De la paz, Kevin J. Arellano-Arteaga, Luz A. González-Hernández, Miriam R. Bueno-Topete

“…Quality filtering, which includes removal of chimeras and non-biological sequences, was performed using the DADA2 algorithm. Resulting ASVs were taxonomically assigned through a self-trained naïve Bayesian classifier, against the SILVA database. …”
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Uncertainty management in multiobjective electric vehicle integrated optimal power flow based hydrothermal scheduling of renewable power system for environmental sustainability by Susanta Dutta, Siddhartha Ghosh, Tushnik Sarkar, Provas Kumar Roy, Chandan Paul, Ruba Abu Khurma, Mohd Asif Shah, Saurav Mallik

“…Additionally, the suggested method (QOSCA) is applied to a multiobjective function while taking AVD and VSI into account. This resulted in a reduction in AVD by 0.37% and VSI by 0.24%, demonstrating the superiority of the suggested method. …”
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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

“…Preprocessing steps, including noise reduction and contrast optimization, were applied to enhance image clarity. …”
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Sequential Hybrid Beamforming for Radio Stripes by Joumana JOUMANA, Daniel Castanheira, Adao Silva, Rui Dinis, Atilio Gameiro

“…Simulation results have shown that our proposed sequential hybrid algorithm achieves approximately the same performance as the centralized CF counterpart with a significant reduction in the signaling and information exchange requirements.…”
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Identification of Differentially Expressed Drought-Responsive Genes in Guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub] by Aref Alshameri, Fahad Al-Qurainy, Abdel-Rhman Gaafar, Salim Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Saleh Alansi, Hassan O. Shaikhaldein, Abdalrhaman M. Salih

“…Drought remains one of the most serious environmental stresses because of the continuous reduction in soil moisture, which requires the improvement of crops with features such as drought tolerance. …”
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Anti-Tetanus Vaccination Is Associated with Reduced Occurrence and Slower Progression of Parkinson’s Disease—A Retrospective Study by Ariel Israel, Eli Magen, Eytan Ruppin, Eugene Merzon, Shlomo Vinker, Nir Giladi

“…<b>Results:</b> Our analysis revealed a significant reduction in PD occurrence following tetanus–diphtheria (Td) vaccination, with an adjusted odds ratio of 0.17 (95% CI [0.04, 0.70]) for PD onset within 5 years post-vaccination. …”
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Intelligent multi-modeling reveals biological relationships and adaptive phenotypes for dairy cow adaptation to climate change by Robson Mateus Freitas Silveira, Angela Maria de Vasconcelos, Concepta McManus, Luiz Paulo Fávero, Iran José Oliveira da Silva

“…Applying the random forest method to classify predictions of adaptive responses based on climatic variables showed that all thermoregulatory, hormonal, biochemical, and hematological responses are important, except for urea and T₃ concentrations, which had negative importance values. …”
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Locating and quantifying CH₄ sources within a wastewater treatment plant based on mobile measurements by J. Yang, Z. Xu, Z. Xia, Z. Xia, X. Pei, Y. Yang, B. Qiu, B. Qiu, S. Zhao, S. Zhao, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang

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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

“…Conclusions This study developed an optimized mapping algorithm to predict the utility index from the QLQ-C30 QLQ-LC13 to the SF-6D. …”
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A twin CNN-based framework for optimized rice leaf disease classification with feature fusion by Prameetha Pai, S. Amutha, Mustafa Basthikodi, B. M. Ahamed Shafeeq, K. M. Chaitra, Ananth Prabhu Gurpur

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A new neurodynamic model with Adam optimization method for solving generalized eigenvalue problem by Ebrahim Ganjalipour, Khadijeh Nemati, Amir Hosein Refahi Sheikhani, Hashem Saberi Najafi

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A comparative study of bone density in elderly people measured with AI and QCT by Min Guo, Min Guo, Yu Zhang, Yu Zhang, XinXin Gu, XinXin Gu, Xuhui Liu, Xuhui Liu, Fei Peng, Fei Peng, Zongjun Zhang, Zongjun Zhang, Mei Jing, Mei Jing, Yingxia Fu, Yingxia Fu

“…The linear regression fit between the R2 values of QCT and Bone Density AI for measuring lumbar spine BMD with different equipment ranged from 0.88 to 0.96, indicating a high degree of consistency between the two measurement methods across devices.ConclusionThis multicenter study pioneers a dual-validation framework to establish the clinical validity of deep learning-based BMD prediction algorithms using routine thoracic/abdominal CT scans. …”
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Inhibition of transcription by dactinomycin reveals a new characteristic of immunogenic cell stress by Juliette Humeau, Allan Sauvat, Giulia Cerrato, Wei Xie, Friedemann Loos, Francesca Iannantuoni, Lucillia Bezu, Sarah Lévesque, Juliette Paillet, Jonathan Pol, Marion Leduc, Laurence Zitvogel, Hugues de Thé, Oliver Kepp, Guido Kroemer

“…Certain chemotherapeutics from the oncological armamentarium are able to trigger pre‐mortem stress signals that lead to immunogenic cell death (ICD), thus inducing an antitumor immune response and mediating long‐term tumor growth reduction. Here, we used an established model, built on artificial intelligence to identify, among a library of 50,000 compounds, anticancer agents that, based on their molecular descriptors, were predicted to induce ICD. …”
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Deepfake Face Detection and Adversarial Attack Defense Method Based on Multi-Feature Decision Fusion by Shanzhong Lei, Junfang Song, Feiyang Feng, Zhuyang Yan, Aixin Wang

“…Ultimately, the model’s robustness was validated by generating adversarial samples using the I-FGSM algorithm and optimizing model performance through adversarial training. …”
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Towards Secure IoT Authentication System Based on Fog Computing and Blockchain Technologies to Resist 51% and Hijacking Cyber-Attacks by Muwafaq Jawad, Ali A. Yassin, Hamid Ali Abed Al-asadi, Zaid Ameen Abduljabbar, Vincent Omollo Nyangares, Zaid Alaa Hussien, Husam A. Neamah

“…Our scheme integrates chaotic-based public key cryptosystems, a Light Encryption Device (LED) with a 3-D Lorenz chaotic map algorithm, and blockchain-based fog computing technologies to enhance both efficiency and scalability. …”
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Anthropometric changes and risk of diabetes: are there sex differences? A longitudinal study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project by Ming Ye, Paula J Robson, Dean T Eurich, Jennifer E Vena, Jian-Yi Xu, Jeffrey A Johnson

“…Diabetes cases were identified using the Canadian National Diabetes Surveillance System algorithm with administrative healthcare data (2000–2015) linked to the ATP cohort. …”
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Hybrid geometry optimization to mitigate maximum temperature gradient in solid oxide fuel cells without lowering the net output performance by Hongkun Li, Tongyu Dai, Tiantian Hu, Weiqun Liu, Qiao Zhu, Dawei Dong

“…., output power density) is also substantially suppressed due to the temperature reduction. Thus, maintaining the output power in SOFCs when optimizing the temperature distribution has been deemed as a challenging task. …”
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Drought Amplifies the Suppressive Effect of Afforestation on Net Primary Productivity in Semi-Arid Ecosystems: A Case Study of the Yellow River Basin by Futao Wang, Ziqi Zhang, Mingxuan Du, Jianzhong Lu, Xiaoling Chen

“…Among drought events identified using a three-dimensional clustering algorithm, high-intensity droughts caused an average NPP loss of 23.2 gC·m⁻² across the basin. …”
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