Multimodal Model for Automated Pain Assessment: Leveraging Video and fNIRS by Jo Vianto, Anjitha Divakaran, Hyungjeong Yang, Soonja Yeom, Seungwon Kim, Soohyung Kim, Jieun Shin

“…Pain assessment is a challenging task for clinicians due to its subjective nature, particularly in individuals with communication difficulties, cognitive impairments, or severe disabilities. Traditional methods such as the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), and Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) rely heavily on patient feedback, which can be inconsistent and subjective. …”
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Mechanism investigation and models evaluation of gas transport in dual-porosity coal seam by Wei LIU, Dongyang HAN, Hao XU, Yujun ZHOU, Tiannan LI

“…To elucidate the mechanism of gas migration and visualize the dynamic migration process of gas, two dual-porosity borehole gas seepage models were established. …”
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Development and multicenter validation of an AI driven model for quantitative meibomian gland evaluation by Li Li, Kunhong Xiao, Taichen Lai, Kunfeng Lai, Jiawen Lin, Zongyuan Ge, Lingyi Liang, Hao Huang, Xiaoshan Zhang, Li Liu, Yujie Wang, Xianwen Shang, Mingguang He, Ying Xue, Zhuoting Zhu

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Efficiency Enhancement of a Cone–Column Combined Microchannel Heat Sink Featuring Graphene–Water Nanofluid by Eid S. Alatawi, Barna Sannyashi, Rehena Nasrin, Most. Zannatul Ferdoushi, Zhi-Gang Feng

“…The Galerkin weighted finite element method solves the nanofluid’s governing partial differential equations. …”
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Albumin Levels before Therapy and Clinicopathological Parameters of Lung Cancer Patients by Erna Kusumawardhani, Nor Fiayanti Hadiani

“…Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between albumin levels and lung cancer. Material and Method: This study included 130 lung cancer patients who underwent albumin testing. …”
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Optimal Dimensional Synthesis of Ackermann and Watt-I Six-Bar Steering Mechanisms for Two-Axle Four-Wheeled Vehicles by Yaw-Hong Kang, Da-Chen Pang, Dong-Han Zheng

“…Kinematic simulations were conducted in ADAMS v2015 to visualize and validate the synthesized mechanisms. …”
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Real-Time Forest Fire Detection with Lightweight CNN Using Hierarchical Multi-Task Knowledge Distillation by Ismail El-Madafri, Marta Peña, Noelia Olmedo-Torre

“…To address the challenge of false positives caused by visually similar non-fire elements, we introduced the Confounding Element Specificity (CES) metric. …”
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Radiological Cardiovascular Imaging—A Systematic Review by Matteo Haupt, Martin H. Maurer, Rohit Philip Thomas

“…Grad-CAM was the most frequently employed XAI method, followed by SHAP. Most studies used saliency-based techniques to generate visual explanations of model predictions. …”
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Correction of Ametropia in Patients with Posterior Elevation of the Cornea by E. N. Eskina, V. A. Parshina, M. Kh. Movsesyan, A. V. Malakhova

“…Purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of ametropia correction in patients with posterior corneal elevation but without signs of subclinical keratoconus, based on postoperative results of transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy (Trans PRK).Patients and methods. A retrospective comparative study was conducted to analyze the results of surface ablation, which was performed using transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy in 18 patients with posterior corneal elevation (36 eyes). …”
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FP-Deeplab: A Novel Face Parsing Network for Fine-Grained Boundary Detection and Semantic Understanding by Borui Zeng, Can Shu, Ziqi Liao, Jingru Yu, Zhiyu Liu, Xiaoyan Chen

“…Facial semantic segmentation, as a critical technology in high-level visual understanding, plays an important role in applications such as facial editing, augmented reality, and identity recognition. …”
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Prediction of Pharmacokinetics for CYP3A4-Metabolized Drugs in Pediatrics and Geriatrics Using Dynamic Age-Dependent Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models by Jing Han, Zexin Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Hanyu Yang, Li Liu

“…The aim of the study was to develop a dynamic age-dependent physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model to predict the pharmacokinetics of drugs in humans at different ages. <b>Method</b>: The PBPK models characterizing dynamic age-dependence were developed in adults (20–59 years old) and 1000 virtual individuals were constructed. …”
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An Omni-Dimensional Dynamic Convolutional Network for Single-Image Super-Resolution Tasks by Xi Chen, Ziang Wu, Weiping Zhang, Tingting Bi, Chunwei Tian

“…Extensive experiments conducted on widely used benchmark datasets, including DIV2K, Set5, Set14, B100, and Urban100, demonstrate that, compared with existing deep learning-based SR methods, our ODConvNet method improves Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), and the visual quality of SR images is also improved. …”
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Aquifer vulnerability assessment in data-scarce areas: a spatially explicit assessment by Changhyun Jun, Dongkyun Kim, Sayed M. Bateni, Meghdad Biyari, Ely Salwana, Farzaneh Sajedi Hosseini, Amir Mosavi, Hao-Ting Pai, Bahram Choubin

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The Performance of Venturi Microbubble Generator Type with a 60° Twisted Baffles by Fatma Roshanti, Sigit Deddy Purnomo Sidhi, Samsul Kamal, Deendarlianto, Indarto

“…The data were analyzed by MATLAB R2022b with the technique image processing method. The results showed that majority bubbles 100–300 µm were generated. …”
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Acupotomy versus acupuncture for cervical spondylotic radiculopathy: protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jing Liu, Bin Chen, Cai Zhang, Ren-Pan Zhang, An-Yang Lin, Zhong-Biao Xiu, Hong-Jia Zhao

“…The Review Manager 5.3 will be used for meta-analysis and the evidence level will be assessed by using the method for Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation. …”
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ARBOALVO: A Bayesian spatiotemporal learning and predictive model for dengue cases in the endemic Northeast city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. by Mariane Branco Alves, Rafael Santos Erbisti, Aline Araújo Nobre, Taynãna César Simões, Alessandre de Medeiros Tavares, Márcia Cristina Melo, Rodrigo Moreira Pedreira, Jan Pierre Martins de Araújo, Marilia Sá Carvalho, Nildimar Alves Honório

“…Temporal conditional autoregressive models were fitted using the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation method. The predictors included a set of entomological, climatic and sociosanitary indicators with temporal lags, along with structures of temporal and spatial dependence. …”
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Mineralized collagen combined with concentrated growth factor to stimulate bone regeneration in cyst of the jaw: A retrospective study by SUN Hao, LIN Chao, MA Xutong, ZHONG Ruokai, FAN Xin

“…[Objective:] To evaluate the clinical effects of a new mineralized collagen (MC) bone filling material combined with concentrated growth factor (CGF) in repairing bone defects of jaw cysts. [Methods:] The sample population consisted of 120 patients after jaw cysts surgery. …”
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Use of Eye Care Services among Type 2 Diabetic Patients in Laguna by Glenn Carandang, MD, MPH, Maria Victoria Rondaris, MD, MPH, Genejane Adarlo, MD, MEMME, PhD Candidate

“…Specific objectives were to describe the prevalence and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a group of diabetic patients referred for retinal evaluation from different internists in Laguna by screening using digital retinal photography. Methods: The study was a hospital-based mixed method study involving two portions: quantitative (cross-sectional) and qualitative. …”
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Research on Landscape Perception of Urban Parks Based on User-Generated Data by Wei Ren, Kaiyuan Zhan, Zhu Chen, Xin-Chen Hong

“…The analysis methods of FCN, LDA, and LSTM were incorporated into the workflow. …”
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Exploring dental and medicine health expenditures in Iran: financial protection and inequality analysis by Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Gharehghani, Sina Ahmadi

“…The concentration curve (CC) and concentration index (CI) were employed to visualize and quantify the extent of economic inequality in CDHE and CME. …”
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