Microcomputed Tomography in the Adriamycin Rat Model of Malformations—Preliminary Results by Jan Scherberich, Leopold Bauer, Nana Huber-Liu, Gabriele Anja Krombach, Roman Metzger, Dietrich Kluth, Marco Ginzel

“…Recently, we examined early tracheal development in healthy rat embryos using microcomputed tomography, which is useful for visualizing the morphology during embryonic development. …”
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Clinical Applicability and Cross-Dataset Validation of Machine Learning Models for Binary Glaucoma Detection by David Remyes, Daniel Nasef, Sarah Remyes, Joseph Tawfellos, Michael Sher, Demarcus Nasef, Milan Toma

“…Early and accurate detection is critical to prevent vision loss, yet traditional diagnostic methods such as optical coherence tomography and visual field tests face challenges in accessibility, cost, and consistency, especially in under-resourced areas. …”
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Improving Fire and Smoke Detection with You Only Look Once 11 and Multi-Scale Convolutional Attention by Yuxuan Li, Lisha Nie, Fangrong Zhou, Yun Liu, Haoyu Fu, Nan Chen, Qinling Dai, Leiguang Wang

“…Fires pose significant threats to human safety, health, and property. Traditional methods, with their inefficient use of features, struggle to meet the demands of fire detection. …”
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Sensing Techniques for Structural Health Monitoring: A State-of-the-Art Review on Performance Criteria and New-Generation Technologies by Ali Mardanshahi, Abhilash Sreekumar, Xin Yang, Swarup Kumar Barman, Dimitrios Chronopoulos

“…While many existing reviews focus on individual methods, comprehensive cross-method comparisons have been limited due to the highly tailored nature of each technology. …”
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A multi-source image fusion algorithm for typical electrical equipment with dual-branch network structure by NIE Qixin, XIAO Zhiyun, BAO Tengfei, JIN Xu, GAO Wenqiang, GUO Hao

“…After comparing with various methods, the method in the paper verifies the advancement of the algorithm in terms of subjective visual evaluation and objective image fusion evaluation indices, in which the objective evaluation indices QMI, SSIM and FMIpixel are 0.567 26, 0.593 47 and 0.887 60, respectively, reaching the highest value, which proves that the quality of fused images is improved and applicable to multi-source electrical equipment image fusion.…”
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Improving Moving Insect Detection with Difference of Features Maps in YOLO Architecture by Angel Gomez-Canales, Javier Gomez-Avila, Jesus Hernandez-Barragan, Carlos Lopez-Franco, Carlos Villaseñor, Nancy Arana-Daniel

“…Insect detection under real-field conditions remains a challenging task due to factors such as lighting variations and the small size of insects that often lack sufficient visual features for reliable identification by deep learning models. …”
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Ceramic soft tissue trimming bur: A new tool for gingival depigmentation by Rohini Negi, Rajan Gupta, Parveen Dahiya, Mukesh Kumar, Vrishti Bansal, Japnit Kaur Samlok

“…Several techniques have been employed such as scalpel surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemical agents, abrasion and LASER method for the removal of melanin hyper-pigmentation. …”
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THE USE OF PTFE MEMBRANES WITH AHMED GLAUCOMA VALVE FOR TREATMENT REFRACTIVE GLAUCOMA by S. A. Zhavoronkov, N. V. Gureva, A. G. Yugai, V. Y. Makhmutov, S. A. Yugai

“…Puspose: to develop a method for the prevention of scarring of filter pads in patients with glaucoma using Ahmed Glaucoma Valve. patients and methods: We developed modification of the techniques Ahmed drainage implantation using a PTFE membrane. …”
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LARE: Latent augmentation using regional embedding with vision-language model by Kosuke Sakurai, Tatsuya Ishii, Ryotaro Shimizu, Linxin Song, Masayuki Goto

“…In recent years, considerable research has been conducted on vision-language models (VLMs) that handle both image and text data; these models are being applied to diverse downstream tasks, such as “image-related chat,” “image recognition by instruction,” and “answering visual questions.” Vision-language models, such as Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP), are also high-performance image classifiers, and are being developed into domain adaptation methods that can utilize language information to extend into unseen domains. …”
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Long-term Results of Topical Insulin Treatment for Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defects by Júlio Almeida, Tomás Costa, Maria Vivas, Catarina Monteiro, Fernando T. Vaz, Diana Silva, Cristina Vendrell, Isabel Prieto

“… Purpose: To evaluate the effects of topical insulin in patients with persistent corneal epithelial defects that are refractory to the standard treatment. Methods: A retrospective, hospital-based, clinical study was performed on 17 eyes of 16 patients with different types of refractory persistent epithelial defects who were treated with topical insulin. …”
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Assessment of liver graft hypoxia via 18F-FMISO PET‑CT imaging by I. I. Tileubergenov, A. A. Ivanova, A. L. Dolbov, O. A. Gerasimova, A. R. Sheraliev, V. N. Zhuykov, D. A. Granov

“…Objective: drawing on existing literature and the clinical use of radiopharmaceutical (RFP) 18F-FMISO in on- cology, this pilot study aims to assess the feasibility of using non-invasive PET-CT imaging to detect hypoxia in liver grafts resulting from ischemia-reperfusion injury.Materials and methods. 18F-FMISO uptake in tumors, as visualized by PET-CT, enables the generation of quantitative maps of tissue hypoxia, a technique that is increa- singly being explored to guide radiation therapy planning. …”
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Antifungal Efficacy of Ganoderma lucidum and Clotrimazole for Treatment of Denture Stomatitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Fahimeh Pakravan, Afsaneh Yegdaneh, Somayeh Taymouri, Shiva Rahimi, Negin Ghahremani

“…Pain intensity according to the visual analog scale (VAS), and the percentage of DS recovery based on the Budtz-Jorgenson index were evaluated and recorded after 7 and 14 days. …”
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Pain intensity and depression level in chronic temporomandibular disorders patients by Raul Elton Araújo Borges, Luana da Rocha Alves Mendonça, Bruno César de Vasconcelos Gurgel, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patrícia dos Santos Calderon

“…Pain intensity and level of depression were assessed using a visual analysis scale and Beck depression inventory, respectively. …”
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Comparison of efficacy and pain perception using 0.5% Bupivacaine and 2% Lidocaine in periodontal Surgery – A split mouth randomized clinical trial by Shanmukha Srinivas Manikanta Tirumalasetty, Dwarakanath Chinniswami Doraisami, Santosh Venkata Ramesh Konathala, Subhadra Gautami Penmetsa, Naga Venkata Satya Sai Sruthima Gottumukkala

“…Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of bupivacaine and lidocaine local anesthesia on the intra surgical and post-surgical pain control in patients undergoing periodontal flap surgery Subjects and methods: A randomized, single-blind, split-mouth design was employed in patients who are scheduled for periodontal flap surgery for at least two similar sextants with similar anesthetic techniques. …”
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Conservative Approach in Patients with Pemphigus Gingival Vulgaris: A Pilot Study of Five Cases by Alessio Gambino, Mario Carbone, Paolo G. Arduino, Paola Carcieri, Lucio Carbone, Roberto Broccoletti

“…The aim of this pilot study was to describe the clinical efficacy of a conservative oral hygiene protocol in patients affected by gingival pemphigus vulgaris (PV) applied in a case series. Methods. Subjects suffering from PV with gingival localisation and slightly responsive to conventional treatment with systemic corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drugs were selected among individuals treated in the Unit of Oral Medicine Section of the University of Turin. …”
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Pain intensity and depression level in chronic temporomandibular disorders patients by Raul Elton Araújo Borges, Luana da Rocha Alves Mendonça, Bruno César de Vasconcelos Gurgel, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patrícia dos Santos Calderon

“…Pain intensity and level of depression were assessed using a visual analysis scale and Beck depression inventory, respectively. …”
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Advanced Fault Diagnosis in Milling Machines Using Acoustic Emission and Transfer Learning by Muhammad Umar, Zahoor Ahmad, Saif Ullah, Faisal Saleem, Muhammad Farooq Siddique, Jong-Myon Kim

“…However, their non-stationary characteristics present challenges for traditional analysis methods. This study proposes an innovative framework that combines time-frequency representation, transfer learning, and dimensionality reduction for effective fault diagnosis. …”
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Risk Factors for Endophthalmitis and Retinal Detachment with Retained Intraocular Foreign Bodies by D. Wilkin Parke, Avinash Pathengay, Harry W. Flynn, Thomas Albini, Stephen G. Schwartz

“…All patients treated at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for traumatic IOFBs between 1999 and 2008. Methods. Analysis of visual outcome, mechanism of injury, management, and postoperative course. …”
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Enhanced Rail Surface Defect Segmentation Using Polarization Imaging and Dual-Stream Feature Fusion by Yucheng Pan, Jiasi Chen, Peiwen Wu, Hongsheng Zhong, Zihao Deng, Daozong Sun

“…Rail surface defects pose significant risks to the operational efficiency and safety of industrial equipment. Traditional visual defect detection methods typically rely on high-quality RGB images; however, they struggle in low-light conditions due to small, low-contrast defects that blend into complex backgrounds. …”
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Medical Report Generation With Knowledge Distillation and Multi-Stage Hierarchical Attention in Vision Transformer Encoder and GPT-2 Decoder by Hilya Tsaniya, Chastine Fatichah, Nanik Suciati, Takashi Obi, Joong-Sun Lee

“…Our approach leverages knowledge distillation with Vision Transformer (ViT) as the image encoder to capture complex visual features, the model benefits from knowledge distillation, transferring knowledge from an ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) – including VGG16, InceptionV3, and DenseNet121 – to the ViT, ensuring rich and diverse feature extraction. …”
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