Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing for Monitoring Fractional Vegetation Cover in Creeping Plants: A Case Study of <i>Thymus mongolicus</i> Ronniger by Hao Zheng, Wentao Mi, Kaiyan Cao, Weibo Ren, Yuan Chi, Feng Yuan, Yaling Liu

“…The SVR model achieved optimal performance during the green-up (R² = 0.87) and early flowering stages (R² = 0.91), while the ANN model excelled during budding (R² = 0.93), peak flowering (R² = 0.95), and fruiting (R² = 0.77). …”
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Intelligent recognition of tobacco leaves states during curing with deep neural network by Qiang Xu, Yanling Zhang, Aiguo Wang, Guangqing Chen, Xianjie Cai, Shuoye Zhou, Junying Li, Baofeng Jin, Ding Yan, Jiajie Huang, Zuxiao Chen, Heng Zhang, Jianwei Wang, Weimin Guo, Jianjun Liu

“…IntroductionThe state monitoring of tobacco leaves during the curing process is crucial for process control and automation of tobacco agricultural production. While most of the existing research on tobacco leaves state recognition focused on the temporal state of the leaves, the morphological state was often neglected. …”
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Feasibility study of automatic radiotherapy treatment planning for cervical cancer using a large language model by Shuoyang Wei, Ankang Hu, Yongguang Liang, Jingru Yang, Lang Yu, Wenbo Li, Bo Yang, Jie Qiu

“…The emergence of artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), surpassing human capabilities and existing algorithms in various domains, presents an opportunity to automate and enhance this optimization process. …”
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Estimation and trend analysis of grassland aboveground biomass on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau based on machine learning by Ruoqi Zhang, Qisheng Feng, Yonghui Zhang, Jingjing Mai, Tiangang Liang

“…A comprehensive benchmarking of 25 machine learning (ML) algorithms was conducted to evaluate their performance. …”
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Double‐row suture‐bridge technique does not yield better clinical and radiological results than single‐row technique in patients older than 55 years at 2 years minimum follow‐up: A... by Vito Gaetano Rinaldi, Sassoli Iacopo, Federico Coliva, Antongiulio Favero, Alberto Bazzocchi, Marco Miceli, Stefano Di Paolo, Stefano Zaffagnini, Giulio Maria Marcheggiani Muccioli

“…Conclusion This study suggests that both SR and DRSB techniques offer comparable clinical outcomes and tendon healing rates for rotator cuff tears in patients over 55 at 24 months minimum follow‐up. While limitations exist, our findings contribute to understanding optimal surgical approaches, emphasizing individualized treatment based on patient characteristics and surgeon expertise. …”
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Dynamic Dwell Time Adjustment in Wire Arc-Directed Energy Deposition: A Thermal Feedback Control Approach by Md Munim Rayhan, Abderrachid Hamrani, Fuad Hasan, Tyler Dolmetsch, Arvind Agarwal, Dwayne McDaniel

“…Experimental validation demonstrated improvements in thermal management, with the dynamic control system maintaining an average temperature undershoot of 1.38% while achieving 96.29% optimal temperature window compliance. …”
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NeuroRF FarmSense: IoT-fueled precision agriculture transformed for superior crop care by Tarun Vats, Shrey Mehra, Uday Madan, Amit Chhabra, Akashdeep Sharma, Kunal Chhabra, Sarabjeet Singh, Utkarsh Chauhan

“…In light of the ongoing global hunger crisis, it is imperative to improve food production in accordance with Sustainable Development Goal 2.0, which aims to eliminate hunger while promoting sustainable agricultural practices. …”
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Combined Use of Spectral and Structural Features for Improved Early Detection of Pine Shoot Beetle Attacks in Yunnan Pines by Yujie Liu, Youqing Luo, Run Yu, Lili Ren, Qi Jiang, Shaoshun He, Xinqiang Chen, Guangzhao Yang

“…Individual tree segmentation algorithms were utilized to extract both spectral and structural variables of damaged tree crowns. …”
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Satellite-based detection of deep-convective clouds: the sensitivity of infrared methods and implications for cloud climatology by A. Z. Kotarba, I. Wojciechowska

“…<p>Reliable deep-convective cloud (DCC) climatology relies heavily on accurate detection. Infrared-based algorithms play a critical role, as they are the only ones that can be applied to the 6.7 <span class="inline-formula">µ</span>m water vapour (WV) absorption band and the 11 <span class="inline-formula">µ</span>m infrared (IR) window band. …”
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VP-SFDA: Visual Prompt Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Cross-Modal Medical Image by Yixin Chen, Yan Wang, Zhaoheng Xie

“…Similarly, the VP-LD and VP-DPL methods also showed significant improvements over their base algorithms in both abdominal and cardiac MRI to CT tasks. …”
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Advanced Ignition and Combustion Analysis of Second‐Generation Biodiesels in Turbocharged Diesel Engines by Balamurugan Mani, Ratchagaraja Dhairiyasamy, Deepika Gabiriel, C. Ahamed Saleel, Nasim Hasan, Fayaz Hussain

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Adaptive strategies for the deployment of rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19: a modelling study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Emily Kendall, Lucia Cilloni, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, David Dowdy

“…Concentrating on urban areas in low- and middle-income countries, the aim of this analysis was to estimate the degree to which ‘dynamic’ screening algorithms, that adjust the use of confirmatory polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing based on epidemiological conditions, could reduce cost without substantially reducing the impact of testing. …”
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Deep learning approach with ConvNeXt-SE-attn model for in vitro oral squamous cell carcinoma and chemotherapy analysis by Abhay Nath, Om Roy, Priyanka Silveri, Sanskruti Patel

“…Our method applies residual connections with Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks along with hybrid attention systems and enhanced activation functions and optimization algorithms to boost gradient movement throughout feature extraction. …”
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Deep Residual Transfer Ensemble Model for mRNA Gene-Expression-Based Breast Cancer by Job Prasanth Kumar Chinta Kunta, Vijayalakshmi A. Lepakshi

“…The E2E ensemble learning method used bagging, AdaBoost, Random Forest, Extra Tree Classifier and XGBoost algorithms as base classifier to perform maximum voting-based prediction. …”
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The large, viscous thrombus is aspirated by using the cyclic suction technique by Lin Shenqi, Yu Ling, Hong Ruiting, Dong Runcheng, Liu Bohao, Ruan Wencong, Sun Tao, Zhou Dongqing, Zhou Yixuan, Chen Shi

“…By using optimal timing data, the suction tube of the device can generate impacts to break large thrombi while effectively preventing them from escaping to other parts of the vessel during the suction process, ensuring the smooth completion of thrombectomy. …”
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Artificial Intelligence Control Methodologies for Shape Memory Alloy Actuators: A Systematic Review and Performance Analysis by Stefano Rodinò, Giuseppe Rota, Matteo Chiodo, Antonio Corigliano, Carmine Maletta

“…Feedforward neural networks outperformed recurrent architectures (+3.1%), while Model Predictive Control (MPC) excelled for SMA actuators (+5.8% accuracy) but underperformed for MSMAs (−7.7%). …”
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A Distributed Collaborative Navigation Strategy Based on Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter Integrated Positioning and Model Predictive Control for Global Navigation Satellite System/... by Wanqiang Chen, Yunpeng Jing, Shuo Zhao, Lei Yan, Quancheng Liu, Zichang He

“…In the field of multi-robot cooperative localization and task planning, traditional filtering algorithms encounter synchronization and consistency issues during multi-source data fusion. …”
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Automated process assessment of primary healthcare for hyperlipidemia: preliminary findings and implications form Anhui, China by Ningjing Yang, Yuning Wang, Ying Li, Dongying Xiao, Ruirui Cui, Nana Li, Rong Liu, Jing Chai, Xingrong Shen, Debin Wang

“…The procedure-based measures were derived from specific quality-facts of 21 stages/procedures (e.g., lipid lowering medication prescription) using self-designed algorithms. While the encounter-based measures included number or rate of visits for HL, currently-noticed hyperlipidemia (CNHL, or HL noticed during the current consultation), and ever-diagnosed hyperlipidemia (EDHL). …”
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LSTM-Enhanced Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of Skid-Steer Mobile Robots Under Terra-Mechanical Constraints by Jose Manuel Alcayaga, Oswaldo Anibal Menéndez, Miguel Attilio Torres-Torriti, Juan Pablo Vásconez, Tito Arévalo-Ramirez, Alvaro Javier Prado Romo

“…Four state-of-the-art DRL algorithms, i.e., Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), Twin Delayed DDPG (TD3), and Soft Actor–Critic (SAC), are selected to evaluate their ability to generate stable and adaptive control policies under varying environmental conditions. …”
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Designing a Multi-Objective Stable Mathematical Model for Routing Municipal Waste Collection Vehicles by Afrouz Rahmandoust, Ashkan Hafezalkotob, Bijan Rahmani Parchikolaei, َAmir Azizi

“…Multi-objective meta-heuristic algorithms were applied to solve the model in scenarios with larger dimensions. …”
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