Leveraging artificial intelligence for diagnosis of children autism through facial expressions by Mahmood A. Mahmood, Leila Jamel, Nazik Alturki, Medhat A. Tawfeek

“…Abstract The global population contains a substantial number of individuals who experience autism spectrum disorder, thus requiring immediate identification to enable successful intervention approaches. …”
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Transformer-based ensemble model for dialectal Arabic sentiment classification by Omar Mansour, Eman Aboelela, Remon Talaat, Mahmoud Bustami

“…The complexity arises from the language’s intricate semantic and morphological structures, along with the existence of multiple dialects. …”
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Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model by Mourad Kaddes, Yasser M. Ayid, Ahmed M. Elshewey, Yasser Fouad

“…Abstract Breast cancer (BC) is a global problem, largely due to a shortage of knowledge and early detection. …”
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Distinct brain age gradients across the adult lifespan reflect diverse neurobiological hierarchies by Nicholas Riccardi, Alex Teghipco, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Ida Rangus, Chris Rorden, Julius Fridriksson, Leonardo Bonilha

“…We address this gap by leveraging a data-driven, region-specific brain age approach in 335 neurologically intact adults, using a convolutional neural network (volBrain) to estimate regional brain ages directly from structural MRI without a predefined set of morphometric properties. …”
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Enhancing Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Multi-Source Subdomain Distribution Alignment Network by Yong Wang, Zhehao Shu, Yinzhi Feng, Rui Liu, Qiusheng Cao, Danping Li, Lei Wang

“…To alleviate these issues, we present a Multi-Source Subdomain Distribution Alignment Network (MSSDANet), which introduces novel network structures and loss functions for subdomain-oriented MSDA. …”
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One Health interventions and challenges under rural African smallholder farmer settings: A scoping review by Evanson R. Omuse, Honest Machekano, Bonoukpoè M. Sokame, Daniel M. Mutyambai, Thomas Dubois, Sevgan Subramanian, Frank Chidawanyika

“…The global human population is rapidly increasing, escalating interactions of people, animals and the environment. …”
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XTNSR: Xception-based transformer network for single image super resolution by Jagrati Talreja, Supavadee Aramvith, Takao Onoye

“…A multi-layer feature fusion block with skip connections, part of this hybrid architecture, guarantees efficient local and global feature fusion. The experimental results show better performance in Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and visual quality than the state-of-the-art techniques. …”
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DRDA-Net: Deep Residual Dual-Attention Network with Multi-Scale Approach for Enhancing Liver and Tumor Segmentation from CT Images by Wail M. Idress, Yuqian Zhao, Khalid A. Abouda, Shaodi Yang

“…Additionally, we introduce a unique pre-processing pipeline employing a two-channel denoising technique using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and stationary wavelet transforms (SWTs) to reduce noise while preserving structural details. …”
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A Bio-Inspired Learning Dendritic Motion Detection Framework with Direction-Selective Horizontal Cells by Tianqi Chen, Yuki Todo, Zhiyu Qiu, Yuxiao Hua, Hiroki Sugiura, Zheng Tang

“…Additionally, in contrast to previous artificial visual systems (AVSs), our findings suggest that lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) structures, though present in biological vision, may not be essential for motion direction detection. …”
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Short-term wind power forecasting method for extreme cold wave conditions based on small sample segmentation by Lin Lin, Jinhao Xu, Jianfei Liu, Hao Zhang, Pengchen Gao

“…In this context, nations have accelerated the transition of their energy structures to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and lower carbon emissions. …”
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Automated recognition of deep-sea benthic megafauna in polymetallic nodule mining areas based on deep learning by Guofan Long, Wei Song, Xiangchun Liu, Ziyao Fang, Jinqi An, Kun Liu, Yaqin Huang, Xuebao He

“…Its backbone integrates deformable convolutions, attention mechanisms, and ResNet structures to improve feature extraction and reduce background interference. …”
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Reconstruction, Segmentation and Phenotypic Feature Extraction of Oilseed Rape Point Cloud Combining 3D Gaussian Splatting and CKG-PointNet++ by Yourui Huang, Jiale Pang, Shuaishuai Yu, Jing Su, Shuainan Hou, Tao Han

“…The CKG-PointNet++ network is designed to integrate CGLU and FastKAN convolutional modules in the SA layer, and introduce MogaBlock and a self-attention mechanism in the FP layer to enhance local and global feature extraction. …”
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LWSARDet: A Lightweight SAR Small Ship Target Detection Network Based on a Position–Morphology Matching Mechanism by Yuliang Zhao, Yang Du, Qiutong Wang, Changhe Li, Yan Miao, Tengfei Wang, Xiangyu Song

“…Furthermore, we propose a Position–Morphology Matching IoU loss function, P-MIoU, which integrates center distance constraints and morphological penalty mechanisms to more precisely capture the spatial and structural differences between predicted and ground truth bounding boxes. …”
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3-D UXSE-Net for Seismic Channel Detection Based on Satellite Image Enhanced Synthetic Datasets by Xinke Zhang, Yihuai Lou, Naihao Liu, Daosheng Ling, Yunmin Chen

“…The model generates improved feature representations that enhance performance by combining convolutional neural networks for local feature extraction and Transformer-based modules for capturing global context. …”
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PC3D-YOLO: An Enhanced Multi-Scale Network for Crack Detection in Precast Concrete Components by Zichun Kang, Kedi Gu, Andrew Yin Hu, Haonan Du, Qingyang Gu, Yang Jiang, Wenxia Gan

“…To address these limitations, we propose PC3D-YOLO, an enhanced framework derived from YOLOv11, which strengthens long-range dependency modeling through multi-scale feature integration, offering a novel approach for crack detection in precast concrete structures. Our methodology involves three key innovations: (1) the Multi-Dilation Spatial-Channel Fusion with Shuffling (MSFS) module, employing dilated convolutions and channel shuffling to enable global feature fusion, replaces the C3K2 bottleneck module to enhance long-distance dependency capture; (2) the AIFI_M2SA module substitutes the conventional SPPF to mitigate its restricted receptive field and information loss, incorporating multi-scale attention for improved near-far contextual integration; (3) a redesigned neck network (MSCD-Net) preserves rich contextual information across all feature scales. …”
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Multimodal lightweight neural network for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis integrating neuroimaging and cognitive scores by Bhoomi Gupta, Ganesh Kanna Jegannathan, Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Kottala Sri Yogi, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh, Vemula Jasmine Sowmya, Isa Bayhan

“…In the neuroimaging feature extraction module, redundancy-reduced convolutional operations are employed to capture fine-grained local features, while a global filtering mechanism enables the extraction of holistic spatial patterns. …”
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An Efficient Semantic Segmentation Framework with Attention-Driven Context Enhancement and Dynamic Fusion for Autonomous Driving by Jia Tian, Peizeng Xin, Xinlu Bai, Zhiguo Xiao, Nianfeng Li

“…Recognizing the limitations of convolutional networks in modeling long-range dependencies and capturing global semantic context, the model incorporates an attention-based feature extraction component. …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…Unlike traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers capture global context from the first layer, enabling more comprehensive image representation, which is crucial for identifying subtle nodule boundaries. …”
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MDNN-DTA: a multimodal deep neural network for drug-target affinity prediction by Xu Gao, Xu Gao, Mengfan Yan, Mengfan Yan, Chengwei Zhang, Chengwei Zhang, Gang Wu, Gang Wu, Jiandong Shang, Jiandong Shang, Congxiang Zhang, Congxiang Zhang, Kecheng Yang, Kecheng Yang

“…This model employs Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to extract features from the drug and protein sequences, respectively. …”
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Benchmarking CNN Architectures for Tool Classification: Evaluating CNN Performance on a Unique Dataset Generated by Novel Image Acquisition System by Muhenad Bilal, Ranadheer Podishetti, Daniel Grossmann, Markus Bregulla

“…It is compared with conventional diffuse ring illumination to assess its effectiveness in evaluating state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. This enabled a more targeted investigation of the role of global shape characteristics such as silhouettes versus localized features like the tool face, cutting edges, and delicate geometrical structures under different training strategies. …”
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