Packed red blood cell transfusion threshold in traumatic brain injury: a systematic overview of reported studies by Babita Raghuwanshi, Suresh K. Thanneeru, Harish Kumar, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Rafael Cincu, Md Yunus, Roshan Chanchlani, Amit Agrawal

“…There was heterogeneity among the studies included, with varied results showing worse outcomes with lower Hb threshold in few studies and no difference or worse complications with transfusion in others. …”
Get full text

Old and new equations for maximal and anaerobic threshold heart rate prediction in coronary heart disease in Chinese population by Leilei Wang, Zihao Huang, Luxia Gao, Xi Chen, Deming Deng, Meiming Lin, Xiuyu Leng

“…This study aims to develop equations for MHR and HRAT, assess the accuracy of historical MHR formulas, and examine their correlation with HR measurements at the anaerobic threshold (AT). Methods Among 2021 to 2023, 170 CHD patients were recruited. …”
Get full text

Cycling Isokinetic Peak Force Explains Maximal Aerobic Power and Physiological Thresholds but Not Cycling Economy in Trained Triathletes by Felipe Giancáspero-Inostroza, Carlos Burgos-Jara, Carlos Sepúlveda, Danni Haichelis, Roberto Meneses-Valdés, Ignacio Orizola-Cáceres, Hugo Cerda-Kohler

“…., triathletes). Some methods include repetition maximum, joint isokinetic tests, and indirect estimates. …”
Get full text

Urine flow cytometry in older adults urinary tract infection diagnosis: is it time to reevaluate thresholds for men and women? by Adrien Biguenet, Elisa Champy, Marine Gilis, Houssein Gbaguidi-Haore, Isabelle Patry, Kévin Bouiller, Xavier Bertrand

“…Bacteriuria (AUC = 0.874) and leukocyturia (AUC = 0.925) were strongly associated with UTI, with thresholds of 150 bacteria/µL and 50 leukocytes/µL (both LR- < 0.1). …”
Get full text

Molecular epidemiology and hematological thresholds for αβ-thalassemia: a retrospective cohort study in the Huizhou region of southern China by Dina Chen, Zhiyang Guan, Shaohui Huang, Zeyan Zhong, Hailin He, Guoxing Zhong, Zhiyong Wu, Jianhong Chen

Get full text

Improve unsupervised Learning-based landslides detection by band ratio processing of RGB optical images: a case study on rainfall-induced landslide clusters by Lichuan Chen, Xuekun Xiang, Haijia Wen, Jiafeng Xiao, Chenhao Song, Xinzhi Zhou, Jingyuan Yu

“…Then, by further optimizing the relevant parameters, the threshold-based Image Difference and Principal Component Analysis-based K-means unsupervised learning classification methods are used to perform change detection and landslide cluster identification. …”
Get full text

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Response of Land Surface Temperature and Kernel Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Yangtze River Economic Belt, China: Multi-Method Analysis by Hongjia Zhu, Ao Wang, Pengtao Wang, Chunguang Hu, Maomao Zhang

Get full text

Research on Stress Threshold of Deep Buried Coal Rock under Quasi-Static Strain Rate Based on Acoustic Emission by Qijun Hao, Xiaohui Liu, Ankui Hu, Yu Zheng, Xiaoping Zhao

“…Based on stage characteristics of acoustic emission energy, spatial distribution, and damage evolution, the use of damage evolution curve to determine stress threshold is proposed. In order to verify the rationality of the damage evolution method, the stress threshold values determined by damage evolution method and existing method are compared and analyzed. …”
Get full text

Corrosion behavior and mechanism of Cr10Mo1 steel subjected to different corrosive ions in simulated concrete pore solution by Junxiang Yuan, Guojian Liu, Lin Yang, Yunsheng Zhang

“…Electrochemical methods, Pourbaix analysis of Fe–Cr–H2O system and DFT calculation were adopted to characterize corrosion behavior and reveal underlying mechanism. …”
Get full text

Comparative Analysis between Active Contour and Otsu Thresholding Segmentation Algorithms in Segmenting Brain Tumor Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Sarah Husham, Aida Mustapha, Salama A. Mostafa, Mohammed K. Al-Obaidi, Mazin Mohammed, Alyaa Idrees Abdulmaged, S. Thomas George

“…The selected algorithms to test our method are Active Contour and Otsu Thresholding algorithms. …”
Get full text

Machine learning approach for identifying and forecasting streamflow droughts in data limited basins of South Korea using threshold levels by Young-Ho Seo, Jang Hyun Sung, Byung-Sik Kim, Junehyeong Park

“…Models were developed and tested using inflow data and meteorological variables from four major South Korean dams. The Threshold Level Method (TLM) was applied to daily inflow data to define drought events, creating a time series for model training. …”
Get full text

Computer Vision-Based Concrete Crack Identification Using MobileNetV2 Neural Network and Adaptive Thresholding by Li Hui, Ahmed Ibrahim, Riyadh Hindi

“…A dataset including 40,000 images was adopted and preprocessed using various thresholding techniques, of which adaptive thresholding was selected for developing the crack evaluation algorithm. …”
Get full text

FldtMatch: Improving Unbalanced Data Classification via Deep Semi-Supervised Learning with Self-Adaptive Dynamic Threshold by Xin Wu, Jingjing Xu, Kuan Li, Jianping Yin, Jian Xiong

“…This method typically introduces a threshold to utilize unlabeled data. …”
Get full text

MtAD-Net: Multi-Threshold Adaptive Decision Net for Unsupervised Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Instance Segmentation by Junfan Xue, Junjun Yin, Jian Yang

“…A Local U-shape Feature Extractor (LUFE) is designed to project each pixel of SAR images into a high-dimensional feature space, and a Global Vision Transformer Encoder (GVTE) is designed to obtain global features, and then, we use the global features to obtain a probability vector, which is the probability of each CFAR threshold. We further propose a PLC-Loss to adaptively reduce the feature distance of pixels of the same category and increase the feature distance of pixels of different categories. …”
Get full text

BIA-derived muscle indicator thresholds for malnutrition risk prediction in children with β-thalassemia: a cross-sectional study by Luyang Zhang, Jiewen Long, Li Wang, Lijuan Zhang, Yanlan Yang, Sandip Patil

“…The findings suggest that these thresholds could serve as effective references to assess nutritional status across different age groups, providing new perspectives for personalized nutritional management strategies.…”
Get full text

Spatial Spillover Effects of Digital Infrastructure on Food System Resilience: An Analysis Incorporating Threshold Effects and Spatial Decay Boundaries by Yani Dong, Chunjie Qi, Cheng Gui, Yueyuan Yang

“…The grain system resilience index is measured using the entropy method. A spatial Durbin model is employed to estimate the impact of digital infrastructure on grain system resilience, and a panel threshold model is used to analyze the nonlinear effects of digital infrastructure on grain system resilience. …”
Get full text

The Restorative Effects of Three Commonly Used Materials on Hearing Thresholds in Patients with Austin-Kartush Type A Ossicular Defects by Harun Gür, Kemal Koray Bal, Kemal Görür, Onur İsmi, Yusuf Vayısoğlu, Cengiz Özcan

“…Air-conduction (AC) and bone-conduction (BC) thresholds were calculated by averaging the threshold values for 500, 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 Hz, and air-bone gap (ABG) values were calculated by subtracting the BC thresholds from the AC thresholds, preoperatively and postoperatively. …”
Get full text

The Effectiveness of Sub-Threshold Laser Versus Spironolactone for The Treatment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Amber Khalid, Aveen Fatima, Quratulain Saleem

“…Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted using PubMed, Cochrane, EMBASE, and Google Scholar for randomized controlled trials comparative and individual studies on spironolactone and sub-threshold laser in the treatment of CSCR. …”
Get full text

Optimal threshold of time interval from symptom onset to diagnosis for identification of severity and outcomes in acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism by Wei Xiong, Qiangqiang Qin, Xiaoyang Song, Zhenzhong Deng, Mei Xu, Dongmei Wang, Qihuan Yao, Jianmin Qu, Yong Luo, Fengfeng Han

“…Nevertheless, it is not known how many days of OTD is the optimal threshold for the identification of severe PE or what differences exist in outcomes among PE patients classified by this threshold.Methods Patients with acute symptomatic PE were retrospectively studied to determine the optimal OTD threshold for identifying the severity and outcomes of PE. …”
Get full text

Threshold haemoglobin levels and the prognosis of stable coronary disease: two new cohorts and a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Anoop D Shah, Owen Nicholas, Adam D Timmis, Gene Feder, Keith R Abrams, Ruoling Chen, Aroon D Hingorani, Harry Hemingway

“…Women tended to have lower threshold haemoglobin values (e.g, for MI 12.8 g/dl; 95% CI 12.1-13.5) but the shape and strength of association did not differ between the genders, nor between patients with angina and MI. …”
Get full text