White matter hyperintensity tissue property spatial variations as a function of cognitive status in Parkinson’s disease by Mariyemuguli Reheman, Sagar Buch, Naying He, Pei Huang, Qiurong Yu, Xinhui Wang, Yu Liu, Youmin Zhang, Zhijia Jin, Yan Li, Peng Liu, Shengdi Chen, E. Mark Haacke, Fuhua Yan

“…Water content, T1, and T2* measures were derived from qMRI data and tissue property heatmaps and periventricular distance profiles were constructed for all groups to visualize location-dependent tissue alterations of WMH relative to the lateral ventricles. …”
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Differential diagnosis between psoriatic arthritis and hand osteoarthritis using indocyanine green-based fluorescence optical imaging by Benedict Drude, Øystein Maugesten, Stephanie G. Werner, Jens Klotsche, Jens Klotsche, Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, Gerhard Krönke, Marina Backhaus, Jörn Berger, Ida Kristin Haugen, Sarah Ohrndorf

“…IntroductionFluorescence optical imaging (FOI) visualizes enhanced microcirculation in the hands as a marker for inflammation. …”
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Patient-Reported Outcomes Differentially Worsen in Patients With Greater Obesity Classes After Hip Arthroscopy by Gregory Perraut, M.D., Madison Thompson, B.A., Emily Krisanda, M.D., Seleem Elkadi, M.D., Shankar Thiru, B.A., Danny Chamaa, B.A., Evan Michaelson, M.D., William Postma, M.D.

“…Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent hip arthroscopy and completed at least 1 preoperative and corresponding postoperative PRO—the modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS), visual analog pain scale (VAS), or Veterans RAND 12 (VR-12)—between December 2018 and August 2023. …”
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CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY GLAUCOMA VEGF INHIBITOR IN PATIENTS WITH CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION CAUSED BY DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA by L. P. Danilova, V. V. Egorov, G. P. Smolyakova, L. P. Emanova, D. A. Povalyaeva

“…Complete inhibition of the growth and activity of myopic CNV was accompanied by positive morphological and functional results, which led to a significant improvement in visual acuity in 2 times at the observation period of 12 months.…”
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Environmental monitoring and spatiotemporal trend analysis of avian influenza virus in Xinjiang, 2021-2023 by Zhe Yin, Fuerhati Wushouer, Jia Huang, Yan Dong, Qi Wang, Xiapikatijiang Aihaiti, Xiayidanmu Abudusaimaiti, Yuanyuan Ma, Zihan Chen, Ruiying Qiu, Quanxi Li, Zhenguo Gao

“…Data were statistically analyzed using Excel and SPSS, and spatial distribution was visualized through Kriging interpolation using ArcGIS. …”
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Wheat Powdery Mildew Severity Classification Based on an Improved ResNet34 Model by Meilin Li, Yufeng Guo, Wei Guo, Hongbo Qiao, Lei Shi, Yang Liu, Guang Zheng, Hui Zhang, Qiang Wang

“…In addition, interpretability techniques such as channel masking and Grad-CAM were employed to visualize the model’s decision-making process. Experimental validation demonstrated that QY-SE-MResNet34 achieved an 89% classification accuracy, outperforming established models such as ResNet50, VGG16, and MobileNetV2 and surpassing the original ResNet34 by 11%. …”
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Lactylation and its roles in diseases: a systematic bibliometric exploration of the research landscape by Mengjia Li, Mengjia Li, Yuhang Liu, Chuhan Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Mengyu Nan, Jiaxi Liu, Yangyang Han, Yangyang Han

“…Excel tracked publication trends, VOSviewer generated author density maps, and CiteSpace visualized collaboration networks, co-cited references, and keyword clusters. …”
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A three-component signaling system plays multiple roles in the pathogenicity of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri by Xiaoyan Zhao, Xiaoyun Chen, Junjie Lei, Jiaying Feng, Yunyang Dong, Yu Shi, Linghui Xu, Junxia Wang

“…The subcellular localization of XAC1991, XAC1992, and XAC1994 was visualized using Leica microscopy, while the flagellar structure of each mutant strain was examined by transmission electron microscopy. …”
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Leveraging FastViT based knowledge distillation with EfficientNet-B0 for diabetic retinopathy severity classification by Jyotirmayee Rautaray, Ali B.M. Ali, Meenakshi Kandpal, Pranati Mishra, Rzgar Farooq Rashid, Farzona Alimova, Mohamed Kallel, Nadia Batool

“…Model interpretability is enhanced through Grad-CAM++ visualizations, which highlight critical retinal regions influencing DR severity classification. …”
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Tratamiento artroscópico del síndrome de fricción femoroacetabular bilateral de cadera. Estudio comparativo entre una y dos etapas by Leonel Pérez Alamino, María A. Olarán, Genaro Cucalón, Daniel Veloz Serrano, Gonzalo Quiroga, Tomás R. Villaseca

“…Se realizó la evaluación clínica mediante la Escala de Cadera (HOS, las siglas por su nombre en inglés) y la Escala Visual Análoga del dolor (EVA). Además, se registraron las tasas de complicaciones y fallas. …”
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Comparative efficacy of acupuncture for chronic low back pain: A network meta-analysis by Feng Gao, Dongming Jia, Shengxia Xue

“…For example, IA showed a mean difference (MD) of −11 mm (95 % credible interval [CrI]: −15.6 to −6.4) on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS), exceeding the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) threshold of 10–15 mm. …”
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Dietary protein and risk of type 2 diabetes: findings from a registry-based cohort study and a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies by Mingjing Xu, Jianheng Zheng, Tao Ying, Yang Zhu, Jun Du, Fan Li, Bo Chen, Yuwei Liu, Gengsheng He

“…Cox proportional hazard models were used to evaluate the associations of various protein intake exposures with the risk of incident T2D, visualized by restricted cubic splines (RCS). Propensity-score matching and subgroup analysis were used to characterize the association between total protein and incident T2D by metabolic diseases. …”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Lumbosacral Complications Following Long‐Segment Spinal Fusion in Adult Degenerative Scoliosis by Tinghua Jiang, Xinuo Zhang, Qingjun Su, Xianglong Meng, Aixing Pan, Hanwen Zhang, Yong Hai

“…A total of 54 pairs of patients were matched and grouped, and the complication group had higher Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and visual analog scale (VAS) scores at the last follow‐up. …”
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Umbilical acupuncture combined with warm needle acupuncture for the treatment of residual numbness after lumbar disc herniation surgery: a protocol of a randomized controlled trial by Kaihua Song, Jiayue Cheng, Yuming Wang, Yang Shen, Chenxin Jiang, Shouhai Hong

“…The primary efficacy indicator will be the visual analog scale (VAS) score for numbness. The secondary efficacy indicators will include the 10 g monofilament test, 40 g pressure acupuncture sensation examination, Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score, lower limb electromyography (H-reflex differences, F-wave conduction velocity, and latency), VAS score, traditional Chinese medicine symptom scoring, and Short Form 36-Health Survey (SF-36) score. …”
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The Influence of Vitamin D Levels and Supplementation on the Treatment of Patients Affected by MRONJ by Filip Michalak, Marzena Dominiak, Jan Kiryk, Paweł Popecki, Dominik Kubicki, Jacek Matys, Kinga Grzech-Leśniak

“…Pain intensity was assessed at multiple time points using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Results: This study showed significant increases in serum vitamin D levels in the experimental group at 3 and 6 months (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Physiological responses of hanging plant Aeschynanthus radicans leaves to low temperature stress by GE Ya-ying, TIAN Dan-qing, YU Yong-ming, PAN Gang-min, LIU Xiao-jing, XIA Yi-ping

“…Aeschynanthus radicans is one of the most popular hanging plants. Now, for its high visual value of leaves and flowers, A. radicans has been often used as indoor ornamental and also plays an important role in landscaping. …”
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A multi-algorithm prognostic model combining inflammatory indices and surgical features in distal cholangiocarcinoma by Yi Yin, Yi Yin, Luyuan Bai, Xinyue Mu, Xinyue Mu, Shan Zhang, Panpan Zhai, Panpan Zhai

“…Multivariate Cox regression analysis identified independent prognostic factors, which were subsequently integrated into a predictive model visualized via a nomogram. Model performance was assessed using ROC curves, calibration curves, and decision curve analysis (DCA).ResultsA total of 177 patients were enrolled in this study. …”
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Improving Malaria diagnosis through interpretable customized CNNs architectures by Md. Faysal Ahamed, Md Nahiduzzaman, Golam Mahmud, Fariya Bintay Shafi, Mohamed Arselene Ayari, Amith Khandakar, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, S. M. Riazul Islam

“…We assessed model interpretability using feature activation maps, Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) visualizations for all three architectures, illustrating why SPCNN outperformed the others. …”
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Text-Guided Synthesis in Medical Multimedia Retrieval: A Framework for Enhanced Colonoscopy Image Classification and Segmentation by Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter, Opeyemi Taiwo Adeniran, Adetokunbo MacGregor John-Otumu, Fahmi Khalifa, Md Mahmudur Rahman

“…Text-to-image synthesis was performed using fine-tuned Visual Large Language Models (LLMs). Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth Low-Rank Adaptation produce images that look authentic, with an average Inception score of 2.36 across three datasets. …”
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