A multi-stage weakly supervised design for spheroid segmentation to explore mesenchymal stem cell differentiation dynamics by Arash Shahbazpoor Shahbazi, Farzin Irandoost, Reza Mahdavian, Seyedehsamaneh Shojaeilangari, Abdollah Allahvardi, Hossein Naderi-Manesh

“…Furthermore, it achieves performance comparable to fully supervised state-of-the-art approaches. To quantitatively evaluate our algorithm, extensive experiments were conducted using available annotated data, confirming the reliability and robustness of our method. …”
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Audio-based digital biomarkers in diagnosing and managing respiratory diseases: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis by Vivianne Landry, Jessica Matschek, Roger Pang, Meghana Munipalle, Kenneth Tan, Jill Boruff, Nicole Y.K. Li-Jessen

“…Future research on audio biomarkers should focus on testing their validity in clinically diverse populations and resolving algorithmic bias. If successful, digital audio biomarkers hold promise for complementing existing clinical tools in enabling more accessible applications in telemedicine, communicable disease monitoring, and chronic condition management.…”
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Investigation of the influence of the heterogeneous structure of concrete on its strength by V.M. Volchuk, M.A. Kotov, Ye G. Plakhtii, O.A. Tymoshenko, O.H. Zinkevych

“…The relevance of the work lies in the possibility to carry out express-assessment of the quality of concrete products and structures using the developed algorithm with the use of portable equipment: photographing the structure of concrete; estimation of the range of colour range of the structure elements; calculation of the fractal dimensionality of the structure elements using the developed program; automatic strength prediction. …”
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Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge - LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling by Aidan O. T. Hogg, Roberto Barumerli, Rapolas Daugintis, Katarina C. Poole, Fabian Brinkmann, Lorenzo Picinali, Michele Geronazzo

“…The submissions to Task 2 employed both algorithmic and machine learning-based approaches, which were evaluated on three key spatial audio objective metrics, including the log-spectral distortion (LSD), interaural time difference (ITD), and the interaural level difference (ILD). …”
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Metabolomic profiling and biomarker identification for early detection and therapeutic targeting of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity by Jingjing Ding, Jingjing Ding, Xianzhen Feng, Zhongqing Xu, Hong Xu

“…Key metabolites were assessed using a random forest algorithm, and ROC curves evaluated diagnostic value. …”
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Fully-automated segmentation of muscle and inter-/intra-muscular fat from magnetic resonance images of calves and thighs: an open-source workflow in Python by Kenneth Tam, Si Wen Liu, Sarah Costa, Eva Szabo, Shannon Reitsma, Hana Gillick, Jonathan D. Adachi, Andy Kin On Wong

“…Robustness and versatility of the algorithm was demonstrated by application to different MR sequences/magnetic strength and to calf versus thigh scans. …”
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Sustainable analysis of COVID-19 Co-packaged paxlovid: exploring advanced sampling techniques and multivariate processing tools by Shymaa S. Soliman, Nisreen F Abo- Talib, Mohamed R. Elghobashy, Mona A. Abdel Rahman

“…Moreover, the models achieved outstanding results on the RGB12 metric and Blueness Applicability Grade Index, scoring 96.8% and 82.5, respectively, highlighting their broad applicability, high efficiency, and alignment with eco-friendly analytical practices.…”
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Unraveling volatile metabolites in pigmented onion (Allium cepa L.) bulbs through HS-SPME/GC–MS-based metabolomics and machine learning by Kaiqi Cheng, Kaiqi Cheng, Jingzhe Xiao, Jingyuan He, Rongguang Yang, Jinjin Pei, Jinjin Pei, Wengang Jin, Wengang Jin, A. M. Abd El-Aty, A. M. Abd El-Aty

“…This method holds potential for quality assessment and breeding applications.…”
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OncoPSM: an interactive tool for cost-effectiveness analysis using partitioned survival models in oncology trial by Xulong Qiu, Xulong Qiu, Jidi Chen, Jidi Chen, Muting Wang, Kaixin Zheng, Ruixiong Li

“…IntroductionCost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) serves as a critical tool to evaluate the economic sustainability of new treatments. …”
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Studies and Rejection of Intercrystal Crosstalk on FPGA in a High-Energy Photon-Counting System by Jiahao Chang, Huaxia Zhang, Shibo Jiang, Zhifang Wu, Shuo Xu

“…The 250 mm Fe steel penetration model is used to evaluate the proposed algorithm, showing improved radiation image quality, particularly with a detector window size of two, which performs better under low-count-rate conditions. …”
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Simultaneous multislice cardiac multimapping based on locally low-rank and sparsity constraints by Yixin Emu, Yinyin Chen, Zhuo Chen, Juan Gao, Jianmin Yuan, Hongfei Lu, Hang Jin, Chenxi Hu

“…ABSTRACT: Background: Although quantitative myocardial T1 and T2 mappings are clinically used to evaluate myocardial diseases, their application needs a minimum of six breath-holds to cover three short-axis slices. …”
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Advanced Text Summarization Model Incorporating NLP Techniques and Feature-Based Scoring by Estabraq Abdulreda Kadhim, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, Hadi S. Aghdasi

“…For example, various textual features such as Named Entity Counts, Noun Counts, and Sentence Position contribute to the summarization quality appropriately. This study’s summarization algorithm was tested using the CNN, XSum and BBC Summarization datasets, which aggregate documents from different areas. …”
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Improving health-promoting workplaces through interdisciplinary approaches. The example of WISEWORK-C, a cluster of five work and health projects within Horizon-Europe by Deborah De Moortel, Michelle C Turner, Ella Arensman, Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Víctor Gonzalez

“…These shifts are giving rise to new forms of work (eg, hybrid work, gig economy jobs) and reshaping management and work organization practices (eg, through algorithmic decision-making or digital monitoring of worker performance). …”
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ICA-based Single Channel Audio Separation: New Bases and Measures of Distance by Dariusz MIKA, Piotr KLECZKOWSKI

“…It was tested on mixes of two and three sounds. The perceptual quality of separation obtained with the measures of distance proposed was evaluated by listening tests, indicating “beta” and “correlation” measures as the most appropriate. …”
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Genome-wide association mapping of aluminum toxicity tolerance and fine mapping of a candidate gene for Nrat1 in rice. by Yonghong Tao, Yanan Niu, Yun Wang, Tianxiao Chen, Shahzad Amir Naveed, Jian Zhang, Jianlong Xu, Zhikang Li

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Reprogramming Heritage: An Approach for the Automatization in the Adaptative Reuse of Buildings by Marta Domènech-Rodríguez, David López López, Sergi Nadal, Anna Queralt, Còssima Cornadó

“…The proposed methodology for a computational algorithm aims to systematise spatial characteristics, assess programmatic needs, and optimise building usage, while addressing challenges such as data integration and quality assurance. …”
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Methods for Designing Technologies of Organic Crop Production by A. M. Zakharov, A. A. Ustroev, E. A. Murzaev, A. D. Komoedov

“…(Results and discussion) At the initial stage of implementing the Waterfall model; a block diagram was developed to outline the general algorithm for designing machine technologies applicable in organic crop production. …”
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Optimizing Revascularization in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Comparative Evidence on the Benefits and Indications of CABG and PCI by Dan M. Prunea, Calin Homorodean, Maria Olinic, Alexandru Achim, Dan-Mircea Olinic

“…This review synthesizes current evidence on coronary revascularization strategies, emphasizing real-world applicability and individualized treatment. It critically evaluates the benefits and limitations of coronary artery bypass grafting [CABG] and percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI], highlighting key knowledge gaps. …”
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Improving the accuracy of calculating the speed of movement at the time of an accident in collisions with incomplete overlap of a part of the car by E. V. Golov

“…The proposed methodology regulates the use of the coefficient of variation as a criterion for the admissibility of the use of source data to determine the quality of the final result of the calculation. This mathematical device is applicable to all collisions, but is especially relevant when studying collisions with incomplete overlap of any part of the car body.…”
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Enhancing stochastic optimal power flow with modified cheetah optimizer for integrating renewable energy sources by Majid Saeidi, Taher Niknam, Mohsen Zare, Zulfiqar Ali Memon

“…Furthermore, due to its applicability to large-scale problems, the reserve constraint dynamic economic dispatch problem was chosen as an additional test case for the MCO. …”
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