Neck dose-limiting rings reduce head and neck lymphedema in early nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients undergoing IMRT: a dosimetric-clinical validation by Kai Liao, Yunhong Tian, Huijun Li, Ronghui Zheng

“…Ultimately, 16 Gy was determined as the optimal limiting dose threshold for achieving the balance of target coverage and protection of organs at risk. …”
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Preoperative prediction of recurrence risk factors in operable cervical cancer based on clinical-radiomics features by Xue Du, Xue Du, Chunbao Chen, Lu Yang, Yu Cui, Min Li

“…The DeLong test showed a statistically significant difference between the AUC values of the fusion model and the clinical model (p < 0.05). …”
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Comparative outcomes of revision total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-Analysis of high tibial osteotomy vs. unicompartmental knee arthroplasty by Peijie Li, Yongjie Qiao, Yingjia Zhou, Jiahuan Li, Zhiqiang Lin, Yafei Cao, Fei Tan, Jiankang Zeng, Xiaoyang Song, Peng Liu, Shuo Ye, Kaipeng Zhuang, Qiuming Gao, Shenghu Zhou

“…Although the HTO-TKA group showed statistically higher knee function scores, the mean difference (MD = 3.35) did not reach the established MCID threshold for KSS (6–10 points), indicating that the clinical significance of this difference remains uncertain. …”
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Optimizing forest stand aggregation in fragmented stands using graph convolutional networks: A case study in Japan by YangYu You, Hyun Bae Kim, Takuyuki Yoshioka

“…Unlike traditional rule-based methods that rely on fixed thresholds and static adjacency rules, the GCN framework allows stand-level attributes—such as slope, road proximity, and spatial adjacency—to influence each other through a graph structure. …”
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Calculating preventable risk fractions for exposure-reducing interventions by Louis Anthony Cox, Jr.

“…These methods can provide evidence-based assessments of how specific exposure reductions affect risk. …”
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Gastric juice MicroRNAs as biomarkers for functional dyspepsia: an observational case-control study by Radu A. Farcas, Teodora Surdea-Blaga, Ştefan Popa, Flaviu Rusu, Alexandra Chira, Cristina Sabo, Vlad-Ionuţ Nechita, Liviuţa Budişan, Oana Zanoaga, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Ştefan Strilciuc, Dan L. Dumitrascu

“…In contrast, miR-155-5p and miR-203a levels did not differ significantly overall between FD and healthy groups. …”
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The role of puberty in experimental pain sensitivity in healthy adolescent girls by Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, Gourav Banerjee, Joel Brown, Alana McMichael, Arbi Ben Abdallah, Sarah Buday, Thomas Baranski, Simon Haroutounian, Deanna Barch, Sarah Garwood, Jacob AuBuchon

“…However, it is unclear whether the differences in pain sensitivity are due to age or the pubertal maturation effect. …”
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Dynamic versus fixed cerebral perfusion pressure targets in paediatric traumatic brain injury: a STARSHIP analysisResearch in context by C.A. Smith, S.Y. Bögli, M.M. Placek, M. Cabeleira, D. White, E. Daubney, A. Young, E. Beqiri, R. Kayani, R. O'Donnell, N. Pathan, S. Watson, A. Maw, M. Garnett, H.K. Kanthimathinathan, H. Bangalore, S. Sundararajan, G. Subramanian, D. Raffaj, S. Lampariello, A. Sarfatti, A. Mayer, O. Ross, M. Czosnyka, P.J. Hutchinson, P. Smielewski, S. Agrawal, Shruti Agrawal, Peter Smielewski, Peter J. Hutchinson, Stefan Yu Bögli, Claudia A. Smith, Carly Tooke, Caroline Payne, Holly Belfield, Amisha Mistry, Collette Spencer, Claire Jennings, Lara Bunni, Laura Anderson, Emily Morgan, Melanie James, Rebecca Beckley, Tahnima Khatun, Hafiza Khatun, Olivia Nugent, Richard Aldridge, Ruth Morgan, Julie Morcombe, Martin Quinton, Catherine Postlethwaite, Jenny Pond, Jessica Cutler, Caitlin Oxford, Marek Czosnyka, Michal Placek, Manuel Cabaleira, Deborah White, Esther Daubney, Adam Young, Erta Beqiri, Riaz Kayani, Roddy O'Donnell, Nazima Pathan, Suzanna Watson, Anna Maw, Matthew Garnett, Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan, Harish Bangalore, Santosh Sundararajan, Gayathri Subramanian, Dusan Raffaj, Simona Lampariello, Avishay Sarfatti, Anton Mayer, Oliver Ross

“…Our findings indicate that the current fixed CPP threshold of 40–50 mmHg may be too low–highlighting the need for further investigation into autoregulation-guided CPP targets. …”
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Exploring ultrasound and electromyography for carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis: a comprehensive comparative study and implications for occupational medicine by Salem Braham, Salem Braham, Amen Moussa, Amen Moussa, Marwa Bouhoula, Marwa Bouhoula, Nihel Ben Meriem, Nihel Ben Meriem, Ichraf Annen, Ichraf Annen, Ghazi Sakly, Ghazi Sakly, Asma Chouchane, Asma Chouchane, Malek Ben Abdelkader, Malek Ben Abdelkader, Asma Aloui, Asma Aloui, Imène Kacem, Imène Kacem, Maher Maoua, Maher Maoua, Houda Kalboussi, Houda Kalboussi, Olfa Elmaalel, Olfa Elmaalel, Houda Mhabrech, Houda Mhabrech, Souheil Chatti, Souheil Chatti, Aicha Brahem, Aicha Brahem

“…The optimal cross-sectional area (CSA) threshold for diagnosis was 10.3 mm2 (89% sensitivity, 84% specificity). …”
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ECT & CRP, quo vadis? - A retrospective study of low-grade inflammation in patients with depression undergoing electroconvulsive therapy by Moritz Spangemacher, Sebastian Karl, Suna Su Aksay, Eva Kathrin Lamadé, Jana Plemper, Alexander Sartorius, Bruno Pedraz-Petrozzi

“…Additionally, LGI could influence the seizure threshold and thus the required stimulation dose. Materials and methods: This retrospective study examined the potential link between LGI and treatment outcomes as well as stimulation doses across multiple ECT sessions, controlling for age and interparticipant variability. …”
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Predicting standardized uptake value of brown adipose tissue from CT scans using convolutional neural networks by Ertunc Erdil, Anton S. Becker, Moritz Schwyzer, Borja Martinez-Tellez, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Thomas Sartoretti, H. Alberto Vargas, A. Irene Burger, Alin Chirindel, Damian Wild, Nicola Zamboni, Bart Deplancke, Vincent Gardeux, Claudia Irene Maushart, Matthias Johannes Betz, Christian Wolfrum, Ender Konukoglu

“…Using the Attention U-Net architecture, we perform experiments on datasets from four different cohorts, the largest study to date. We segment BAT regions using predicted [18F]-FDG uptake values, achieving 23% to 40% better accuracy than conventional CT thresholding. …”
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MW-UNet: Multi-Scale Weighted Connection UNet for Identification and Classification of Non-Meteorological Clutter over Big Radar Data by Mengmeng Cui, Chen Zeng, Xiaolong Xu, Muhammad Bilal, Xiaoyu Xia

“…To improve the quality of radar data, machine learning and fuzzy logic algorithms are often used to identify and classify non-meteorological clutter in weather data. However, these methods often require dozens of texture features as inputs and need to manually adjust the thresholds to cope with different clutter types, which leads to significant time costs. …”
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Is night‐time surgical procedure for renal graft at higher risk than during the day? A single center study cohort of 179 patients by Patrick Julien Treacy, Flora Barthe, Imad Bentellis, Ugo Giovanni Falagario, Thomas Prudhomme, Laetitia Imbert de La Phalecque, Aysha Shaikh, Laetitia Albano, Daniel Chevallier, Matthieu Durand

“…No statistically significant differences were observed between the two groups using the Kruskal–Wallis method for CD complications (Qobs: 0.076; p = .735). …”
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Effects of non-pharmacological interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms in pregnant women: a systematic review and network meta-analysisResearch in context by Guowei Zeng, Jianfeng Niu, Ke Zhu, Fei Li, Liwen Li, Kaiming Gao, Yanlong Zhuang, Boyang Zhang, Xiaoqiang Han, Gang Ye, Zhikun Gao, Haobai Li

“…Although we have employed reliable methods to address these issues, the findings of this study should still be interpreted with caution. …”
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Ex-vivo validation of nine algorithms for quantifying infarcts with late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance by Sascha Kopic, Einar Heiberg, Henrik Engblom, Marcus Carlsson, David Nordlund, Robert Jablonowski, Mikael Kanski, Christos Xanthis, Sebastian Bidhult, Anthony H. Aletras, Håkan Arheden

“…Caution should be applied when comparing datasets employing different infarct quantification methods. Manual infarct delineation by experienced readers remains a reliable technique to measure infarct size.…”
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People Detection Based on Spatial Mapping of Friendliness and Floor Boundary Points for a Mobile Navigation Robot by Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Fumio Ozaki, Nobuto Matsuhira, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno

“…We classify obstacles as moving people by comparing movement of each point with robot movement using odometry data, dynamically changing thresholds to detect. Our robot detected 95.0% of partners while it stands by and interacts with people and detected 85.0% of moving people while robot moves, which was four times higher than previous methods did.…”
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Characteristics of the macroinvertebrate community structure and their habitat suitability conditions in the Chishui River by Xinyu Li, Long Yan, Xu Zhi, Peng Hu, Chongju Shang, Baolong Zhao

“…Species richness initially declined and then rose within certain thresholds of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) concentrations. …”
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Targeted lung cancer screening in the age of immunotherapies and targeted therapies – an economic evaluation for AustraliaResearch in context by Jacqueline Roseleur, Jonathan Karnon, Harry de Koning, Vivienne Milch, Katrina Anderson, Jacqui Real, Dorothy Keefe, Kevin ten Haaf

“…Summary: Background: The cost-effectiveness of different lung cancer screening strategies has been evaluated from an Australian public health system perspective using static models. …”
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A YOLOv11-based AI system for keypoint detection of auricular acupuncture points in traditional Chinese medicine by Ganhong Wang, Limei Yin, Hanyue Zhang, Kaijian Xia, Yue Su, Jian Chen, Jian Chen

“…The model performance was evaluated on validation and test sets, considering metrics such as mean average precision (mAP) under different thresholds, recall, and detection speed. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection via Modified Fast Saliency and Weighted Guided Image Filtering by Yi Cui, Tao Lei, Guiting Chen, Yunjing Zhang, Gang Zhang, Xuying Hao

“…Finally, the differential image is calculated by subtracting the predicted image from the original one, and IR small targets are detected through a simple thresholding. Experimental results on four sequences demonstrate that the proposed method can not only suppress background clutter effectively under strong edge interference but also detect targets accurately with a low false alarm rate.…”
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