Investigation of cracking behavior in asphalt pavement using digital image processing technology by Jie Jiang, Jie Jiang, Kui Xu, Yanbin Song, Ling Gao, Jinzhu Zhang

“…IntroductionRoad hazards and some traffic accidents are often caused by damage of the performance of the pavement due to cracking of asphalt concrete.MethodsA simulation test was designed to investigate asphalt pavement cracking under different temperature conditions (15°C, 0°C, −5°C, −15°C) with a fixed traffic load strip. …”
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Interobserver ground-truth variability limits performance of automated glioblastoma segmentation on [18F]FET PET by Selene De Sutter, Ine Dirks, Laurens Raes, Wietse Geens, Hendrik Everaert, Sophie Bourgeois, Johnny Duerinck, Jef Vandemeulebroucke

“…When threshold maps were generated by a different reader, performance reverted to levels comparable to the one-channel network and inter-reader variability. …”
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High-Resolution Reflected Wave Extraction and Imaging Enhancement for Array Acoustic Logging by YUE Wenzheng, LIU Dongming, TIAN Bin, QIN Minjun

“…Therefore, by selecting a hard threshold to separate the mode wave and reflected wave signals, different components in the acoustic logging signal are identified. …”
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The q T and ∆ ϕ t t ¯ $$ \Delta {\phi}_{t\overline{t}} $$ spectra in top-antitop hadroproduction at NNLL+NNLO: the interplay of soft-collinear resummation and Coulomb singularities... by Wan-Li Ju, Marek Schönherr

“…They embody two fundamentally different methods to truncate the threshold enhanced terms, rendering their contribution finite. …”
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A range spread target detection algorithm based on polarimetric features and SVDD by Qiang LI, Yuanxin YAO, Xiangqi KONG

“…Multi-polarization range high resolution radar is an important mean for ground target detection.In the echo formed by it, the target occupies multiple range cells and becomes an extended target.The traditional spread target detection method relies on energy, and the detection performance decreases when the signal-to-clutter ratio decreases.A spread target detection algorithm based on polarization decomposition features was proposed, which improved the detection performance under low signal-to-clutter ratio by using the difference of polarization scattering characteristics between target and clutter.Specifically, 16 kinds of polarization decomposition features were extracted to form feature vectors as detection statistics, and then support vector data description (SVDD) was used to obtain the detection threshold.When training the detection threshold, the polarization decomposition features of clutter were extracted as training data.In order to ensure the false alarm probability, two penalty parameters were introduced into the objective function of SVDD.The experimental results show that the proposed method requires a signal-to-clutter ratio of about 12.6 dB in the case of Gobi background, false alarm probability of 10^-4 and detection probability of 90%, which is about 1.7 dB lower than the energy-based methods.…”
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Integration of large-scale community-developed causal loop diagrams: a Natural Language Processing approach to merging factors based on semantic similarity by Melissa Valdivia Cabrera, Michael Johnstone, Joshua Hayward, Kristy A. Bolton, Douglas Creighton

“…This study aimed to explore the feasibility of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in simplifying and enhancing CLD merging processes, avoiding manual merging of factors, utilizing different semantic textual similarity models. Methods The factors of thirteen CLDs from different communities in Victoria, Australia regarding the health and wellbeing of children and young people were merged using NLP with the following process: (1) extracting and preprocessing of unique factor names; (2) assessing factor similarity using various language models; (3) determining optimal merging threshold maximising the F1-score; (4) merging the factors of the 13 CLDs based on the selected threshold. …”
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Dynamical quantum phase transition and thermal equilibrium in the lattice Thirring model by Mari Carmen Bañuls, Krzysztof Cichy, Hao-Ti Hung, Ying-Jer Kao, C.-J. David Lin, Amit Singh

“…Moreover, in the case of the gapped quench Hamiltonian, we unveil a connection of this threshold to a transition between different regions in the finite-temperature phase diagram.…”
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Post-acceleration internal enhancement technology for streak camera and its nonlinear intensity correction by GU Li, YANG Fang, YANG Qinlao

“…The nonlinear sources of signal intensity on the screen are identified by the different transmittance of electrons with different directional angles, and the intensity error distribution in the imaging area and its correction methods are provided. …”
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The admissible amount of borrowings as a problem of organization of research work and of quality control by N. V. Avdeeva, T. A. Blinova, I. A. Gruzdev, V. M. Ledovskaya, G. A. Lobanova, I. V. Sus

“…The experience with the use of threshold values shows that it may have different effects on the final quality of such documents and therefore needs special consideration. …”
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Travel Frequent-Route Identification Based on the Snake Algorithm Using License Plate Recognition Data by Feiyang Liu, Jie Zeng, Jinjun Tang, TianJian Yu

“…To address the sparse spatial distribution of LPR devices, we utilize the word2vec model to extract spatial correlations among intersections. A threshold-based method is then applied to transform the correlation matrix into a reconstructed network, connecting intersections with strong vehicle transition relationships. …”
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Developing a dynamic combined power quality index for assessing the performance of a nuclear facility by Asmaa M. Elsotohy, Mohammed Hamouda Ali, Ahmed S. Adail, Ayman A. Eisa, El-said A Othman

“…The main contribution of this paper is that a single compound power quality index (CPQI) was developed based on both the dynamic weights obtained from AHP-CRITIC methods and the results of the five PQ phenomena obtained under different abnormal conditions, considering the threshold level for each of these PQ phenomena. …”
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Association of Hypertension and Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Rural Tertiary Care Setting by Sri Harsha Boppana, Darshak K. Patel, Afsana Ansari Shaik, Arun Gajan Pradeep, Raja Hamsa Chitturi, P. Siva Chaitanya, L. V. Simhachalam Kutikuppala, Anthony Reddy Gopu, Shanteja Reddy Mamidi, Jyothi Swaroop Chintala, Kalyani Ponnaganti Sai Venkata

“…Conclusion: In this study, the affiliation between accelerated hearing threshold and hypertension was discovered, offering heart specialists, urologists, audiologists, ENT specialists and different health specialists to collaborate on hypertension related changes.…”
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The informative value of adenosine deaminase isoenzymes testing in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy with the relevance to the age of patients by M. E. Dyakova, T. L. Perova, D. S. Esmedlyaeva, P. K. Yablonskiy

“…In patients with tuberculous pleurisy, the activity of ADA, ADA-1 and ADA-2 was significantly higher than in patients with pleurisy of a different etiology. Tests of ADA activity (above the threshold value of 30 u/L) had sensitivity and specificity of 95 and 94%, respectively. …”
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Discovery and expansion of gene modules by seeking isolated groups in a random graph process. by Jochen Brumm, Elizabeth Conibear, Wyeth W Wasserman, Jennifer Bryan

“…Improving on existing alternative, such as graph clustering and the global pruning of dendrograms, this index offers two intuitively appealing features: (1) the score is module-specific; and (2) different choices of threshold correlate logically with the resulting performance, i.e. a stringent cutoff yields high quality predictions, but low sensitivity. …”
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Seismic vulnerability analysis of reinforced concrete frame with infill wall considering in-plane and out-of-plane interactions by Dan Wang

“…Based on the test data on masonry infill walls, this paper designs a performance indicator for infill wall in the light of IP-OOP interactions, and determines the response threshold of each damage state. With the aid of OpenSees, the authors developed and verified a reasonable modeling method for RC frames with infill walls. …”
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Optimizing Satellite Imagery Datasets for Enhanced Land/Water Segmentation by Marco Scarpetta, Luisa De Palma, Attilio Di Nisio, Maurizio Spadavecchia, Paolo Affuso, Nicola Giaquinto

“…This paper presents an automated procedure for optimizing datasets used in land/water segmentation tasks with deep learning models. The proposed method employs the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) with a variable threshold to automatically assess the quality of annotations associated with multispectral satellite images. …”
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Research on Recognition of Motor Imagination Based on Connectivity Features of Brain Functional Network by Zhizeng Luo, Ronghang Jin, Hongfei Shi, Xianju Lu

“…Feature extraction is essential for classifying different motor imagery (MI) tasks in a brain-computer interface. …”
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Performance of chest X-ray with computer-aided detection powered by deep learning-based artificial intelligence for tuberculosis presumptive identification during case finding in t... by Nichel Marquez, Erwin John Carpio, Mary Rosary Santiago, Jeremiah Calderon, Ruth Orillaza-Chi, Shawnee Shaine Salanap, Lisa Stevens

“…Threshold adjustments affected PPV, tests saved, and case detection differently across settings. …”
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Fault Prediction for Rotating Mechanism of Satellite Based on SSA and Improved Informer by Qing Lan, Ye Zhu, Baojun Lin, Yizheng Zuo, Yi Lai

“…Finally, temperature thresholds generated from the prediction results are used to forecast faults in the rotational mechanism over different time periods. …”
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Comparison between auditory steady-state responses and pure-tone audiometry by Komazec Zoran, Lemajić-Komazec Slobodanka, Jović Rajko, Nađ Čongor, Jovančević Ljiljana, Savović Slobodan

“…Background/Aim. A more recent method, the auditory steadystate response (ASSR), has become more and more important test method due to difference that was found in previous investigations between hearing thresholds determined by the ASSR and the pure-tone audiometry (PTA). …”
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