Effect of ACE-inhibition on coronary microvascular function and symptoms in normotensive women with microvascular angina: A randomized placebo-controlled trial. by Marie Mide Michelsen, Anna Bay Rask, Elena Suhrs, Kristoffer Flintholm Raft, Nis Høst, Eva Prescott

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MedSegBench: A comprehensive benchmark for medical image segmentation in diverse data modalities by Zeki Kuş, Musa Aydin

“…The benchmark supports binary and multi-class segmentation tasks with up to 19 classes and uses the U-Net architecture with various encoder/decoder networks such as ResNets, EfficientNet, and DenseNet for evaluations. MedSegBench is a valuable resource for developing robust and flexible segmentation algorithms and allows for fair comparisons across different models, promoting the development of universal models for medical tasks. …”
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Epidemiological surveillance of HIV-1 transmitted drug resistance among newly diagnosed individuals in Shijiazhuang, northern China, 2014-2015. by Xianfeng Wang, Xiaosong Liu, Feng Li, Hong Zhou, Jiefang Li, Yingying Wang, Lihua Liu, Shujun Liu, Yi Feng, Ning Wang

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Anellovirus abundance as an indicator for viral metagenomic classifier utility in plasma samples by Gabriel Montenegro de Campos, Luan Gaspar Clemente, Alex Ranieri Jerônimo Lima, Eleonora Cella, Vagner Fonseca, João Paulo Bianchi Ximenez, Milton Yutaka Nishiyama, Enéas de Carvalho, Sandra Coccuzzo Sampaio, Marta Giovanetti, Maria Carolina Elias, Svetoslav Nanev Slavov

“…Interestingly, despite employing different algorithms and data types (protein-based vs. nucleotide-based), Kaiju and Kraken2 performed similarly. …”
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Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Yanqi Kou, Shicai Ye, Yuan Tian, Ke Yang, Ling Qin, Zhe Huang, Botao Luo, Yanping Ha, Liping Zhan, Ruyin Ye, Yujie Huang, Qing Zhang, Kun He, Mouji Liang, Jieming Zheng, Haoyuan Huang, Chunyi Wu, Lei Ge, Yuping Yang

“…Kaplan-Meier survival analysis evaluated the impact of GIB on short-term survival. …”
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Community-based benchmarking improves spike rate inference from two-photon calcium imaging data. by Philipp Berens, Jeremy Freeman, Thomas Deneux, Nikolay Chenkov, Thomas McColgan, Artur Speiser, Jakob H Macke, Srinivas C Turaga, Patrick Mineault, Peter Rupprecht, Stephan Gerhard, Rainer W Friedrich, Johannes Friedrich, Liam Paninski, Marius Pachitariu, Kenneth D Harris, Kenneth D Harris, Ben Bolte, Timothy A Machado, Dario Ringach, Jasmine Stone, Luke E Rogerson, Nicolas J Sofroniew, Jacob Reimer, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Thomas Euler, Miroslav Román Rosón, Lucas Theis, Andreas S Tolias, Matthias Bethge

“…Here, we report the results of the spikefinder challenge, launched to catalyze the development of new spike rate inference algorithms through crowd-sourcing. We present ten of the submitted algorithms which show improved performance compared to previously evaluated methods. …”
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Rhaponticin inhibits the proliferation, migration, and invasion of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cells through modulation of the IL6/STAT3 signaling pathway by Hongcheng Wei, Shanshan Wang, Jiayue Wan, Sicheng Li, Wei Wang, Jiajun Zhu, Lin Jiang, Yisen Shao, Yuan Wu

“…Using the CIBERSORT algorithm, we assessed the differences in infiltration levels of 22 immune cell types between the high and low IL-6 expression groups. …”
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Predicting the risk of postoperative gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with Type A aortic dissection based on an interpretable machine learning model by Lin Li, Xing Yang, Wei Guo, Wenxian Wu, Meixia Guo, Huanhuan Li, Xueyan Wang, Siyu Che

“…The SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) algorithm was applied for interpretability analysis. …”
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Maximizing the scientific application of Pandora column observations of HCHO and NO₂ by P. Rawat, J. H. Crawford, K. R. Travis, L. M. Judd, M. A. G. Demetillo, L. C. Valin, J. J. Szykman, A. Whitehill, E. Baumann, T. F. Hanisco

“…These ground-based remote-sensing instruments are federated such that they employ a common algorithm and data protocol for reporting on trace gas column densities and lower-atmospheric profiles using two modes based on direct-sun and sky-scan observations. …”
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Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use prior to spinal surgery results in reduced postoperative length of stay: A propensity-score matched analysis by Samuel N. Goldman, BS, Kyle Mani, BE, Thomas Scharfenberger, BS, Emily Kleinbart, BA, Aaron T. Hui, BS, Rafael De la Garza Ramos, MD, Mitchell S. Fourman, MD, MPhil, Ananth S. Eleswarapu, MD

“…Prior studies have reported mixed results across select spinal fusion procedures, and the impact of GLP-1 RAs on perioperative outcomes has not been well-defined. This study evaluates the association between preoperative GLP-1 RA use and key perioperative outcomes in spinal surgery. …”
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Exploring the relationship between sepsis and Golgi apparatus dysfunction: bioinformatics insights and diagnostic marker discovery by Wanli Ma, Xinyi Liu, Ran Yu, Jiannan Song, Lina Hou, Ying Guo, Hongwei Wu, Dandan Feng, Qi Zhou, Haibo Li

“…Subsequently, functional enrichment analyses, including GO, KEGG, and GSEA, were performed to explore the biological significance of the GARGs.A PPI network was constructed to identify core genes, and immune infiltration analysis was performed using the ssGSEA algorithm. To further evaluate immune microenvironmental features, unsupervised clustering was applied to identify immunological subgroups. …”
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Comparing the Effect of Beractant (Beraksurf™) with That of Poractant Alfa (Curosurf®) on the Need for Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation in Neonatal Respiratory Distress S... by Yosra Khazani, Sirous Fathi Manesh, Elnaz Shaseb, Parvin Sarbakhsh

“…The effect of the treatments was evaluated regarding the need for IPPV by fitting semi-parametric logistic regression models, adjusted for the best subset of covariates selected by the forward variable selection algorithm and confounders identified by the expert panel. …”
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Signal Quality Index Estimator for Complex-Lead type ECG beat detectors by Hintermüller Christoph, Blessberger Hermann, Steinwender Clemens

“…In the past decades various algorithms to detect and delineate ECG beats have been developed. …”
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Optimal sleep time controller based on traffic prediction and residual energy in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks by Haibo Luo, Minghua He, Zhiqiang Ruan, Xiaxia Zeng

“…We evaluate our protocols with different parameters and compare them with existing works. …”
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A Survey on Integration of Empathy Cues Into Empathetic Text Generation by Edwin C. Montiel-Vazquez, Christian Arzate Cruz, Jorge Adolfo Ramirez Uresti, Miguel Gonzalez Mendoza, Randy Gomez

“…In recent years, affective computing has seen a surge in empathetic response generation algorithms. These incorporate different empathy-related concepts to increase their perceived behavioral empathy. …”
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Machine learning-based brain magnetic resonance imaging radiomics for identifying rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson’s disease patients by Yandong lian, Yibin Xu, Linlin Hu, Yuguo Wei, Zhaoge Wang

“…Additionally, multi-factor logistic regression analysis identified clinical predictors associated with PD-RBD, and these clinical features were integrated with the radiomics signatures to develop predictive models using various machine learning algorithms. The model exhibiting the best performance was selected, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to evaluate its performance in both the training and testing sets. …”
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Multiomics integration analysis identifies tumor cell-derived MIF as a therapeutic target and potentiates anti-PD-1 therapy in osteosarcoma by Yan Liao, Hao Yao, Weidong Chen, Yutong Zou, Ji Fang, Jiongfeng Zhang, Zehao Guo, Jian Tu, Junkai Chen, Zijun Huo, Lili Wen, Xianbiao Xie

“…The single-sample gene set enrichment analysis, Estimation of Stromal and Immune cells in Malignant Tumor tissues using Expression data (ESTIMATE) algorithm, and xCell algorithms were used to evaluate the immune cell infiltration and activity. …”
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Effects of missing data imputation methods on univariate blood pressure time series data analysis and forecasting with ARIMA and LSTM by Nicholas Niako, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Gladys E. Maestre, Kristina P. Vatcheva

“…We evaluated the prediction performance of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network models on imputed time series data using ten different imputation techniques. …”
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Object-Specific Multiview Classification Through View-Compatible Feature Fusion by Javier Perez Soler, Jose-Luis Guardiola, Nicolás García Sastre, Pau Garrigues Carbó, Miguel Sanchis Hernández, Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes

“…Through experimental evaluations, we demonstrate that the proposed VCFF method outperforms state-of-the-art MVC algorithms, especially in open-set scenarios, where the set of possible objects is not fully known in advance. …”
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Nephelometer Sensitivities for the Determination of PM2.5 Mass Concentration in Ambient and Indoor Air by Dimitra Karali, Glykeria Loupa, Spyridon Rapsomanikis

“…Abstract Simple algorithms are presented for the relationships between the gravimetrically measured PM2.5 mass concentration and a nephelometer particle scattering coefficient, for three different environments: two outdoor locations (an urban and a suburban) and one indoors. …”
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