Swift prediction of personalized head and chest organ doses from CT examinations via neural networks with optimized quantity of hidden layers and radiomics features by Wencheng Shao, Xin Lin, Ying Huang, Liangyong Qu, Weihai Zhuo, Haikuan Liu

“…Fully-connected neural networks (FCNN) were trained with radiomics features to predict organ doses. The FCNN model was optimized by adjusting the number of input radiomics features and FCNN layers. …”
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Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Holter ECG Recordings by ECHOView Images: A Deep Transfer Learning Study by Vessela Krasteva, Todor Stoyanov, Stefan Naydenov, Ramun Schmid, Irena Jekova

“…The top-ranked DNNs evaluated on 11,400 test samples from independent records are the retrained EfficientNetV2B1 (96.3% accuracy with minimal inter-patient (1%) and inter-lead (0.3%) drops), and fine-tuned EfficientNetV2B1 and DenseNet-121, -169, -201 (97.2–97.6% accuracy with inter-patient (1.4–1.6%) and inter-lead (0.5–1.2%) drops). These models can process shorter ECG episodes with a tolerable accuracy drop of up to 0.6% for 20 s and 4–15% for 10 s. …”
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A Medical Image Semantics Segmentation Method Based on Image Pre-processing and Image Transformer by Li Zhaopeng

“…Because of its ability to comprehend and interpret the context of images, it plays a vital role in the medical area. Existing models in this field pay more attention to editing U-Net’s structure and convolutional layers. …”
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Resilience Analysis of Coupling Combat Network: Considering Multiple Destruction-Recovery Processes by Yuheng Dang, Huixiong Wang, Zimeng Yin, Xing Pan

“…As such, this paper proposes an analysis framework of resilience based on the CCN modeling. Then, considering multiple and continuous strikes from enemies, a resilience modeling and assessment method is developed based on trend analysis for multiple destruction-recovery processes (DRPs). …”
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Explainable Supervised Learning Models for Aviation Predictions in Australia by Aziida Nanyonga, Hassan Wasswa, Keith Joiner, Ugur Turhan, Graham Wild

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated success across various industries; however, its adoption in aviation remains limited due to concerns regarding the interpretability of AI models, which often function as black box systems with opaque decision-making processes. …”
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r-process Nucleosynthesis and Radioactively Powered Transients from Magnetar Giant Flares by Anirudh Patel, Brian D. Metzger, Jared A. Goldberg, Jakub Cehula, Todd A. Thompson, Mathieu Renzo

“…We confirm using nuclear reaction network calculations that these ejecta synthesize moderate yields of third-peak r -process nuclei and more substantial yields of lighter r -nuclei, while leaving a sizable abundance of free neutrons in the outermost fastest expanding ejecta layers. …”
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Highly efficient and rapid removal of Congo red dye from textile wastewater using facile synthesized Mg/Ni/Al layered double hydroxide by Eslam A. Mohamed, Hend M. Ahmed, Amal A. Altalhi, Hamdan A. S. Al-Shamiri, Nabel A. Negm

“…The efficiency of the uptake process was increased from 84 to 97% after the thermal treatment process, and the adsorption process tracked the Freundlich adsorption isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. …”
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Refined equations and buckling modes under four-point bending loading of the sandwich test specimen with composite facing layers and a transversely flexible core by V.N. Paimushin, M.V. Makarov

“…A refined geometrically nonlinear theory of sandwich plates and shells with a flexible soft core and composite facing layers having low shear and compressive stiffness was introduced. …”
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Determine potential and social and cultural carrying capacity with the purpose of the establishment in ecotourism development (Case study: Southern Karkheh protected area, Iran) by mehdi salemi

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Research on Seamless Fabric Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8n by Qin Sun, Bernd Noche, Zongyi Xie, Bingqiang Huang

“…In addition, adding a small object detection layer particularly improves the detection accuracy of the model for small-sized defects, making it no longer limited to traditional models when dealing with high-density fabrics or small defects. …”
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Physical Model Tests on Reinforced Loess Foundation Model Under Wetting and Loading by ZHANG Wan, MU Hongkun, LIU Fengyin, GUO Huaining, ZHAO Wei, XUE Yifeng

“…The length of the model reinforcement layer is 450 mm (5.0<italic>B</italic>). …”
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Multi‐Disease Detection in Retinal Imaging Using VNet with Image Processing Methods for Data Generation by Samad Azimi Abriz, Mansoor Fateh, Fatemeh Jafarinejad, Vahid Abolghasemi

“…This approach enhances model training and prevents overfitting. For vanishing gradients, a deep neural network is introduced with optimized weight updates in initial layers, enabling the use of more and deeper layers. …”
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Real-Time System Prediction for Heart Rate Using Deep Learning and Stream Processing Platforms by Abdullah Alharbi, Wael Alosaimi, Radhya Sahal, Hager Saleh

“…For the online phase, Apache Kafka and Apache Spark have been used to predict the heart rate in advance based on the best developed model. According to the experimental results, the GRU with three layers has recorded the best performance. …”
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Gag-Pol processing during HIV-1 virion maturation: a systems biology approach. by Balázs Könnyű, S Kashif Sadiq, Tamás Turányi, Rita Hírmondó, Barbara Müller, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Peter V Coveney, Viktor Müller

“…The process has several layers of complexity (multiple cleavage sites and substrates; multiple enzyme forms; PR auto-processing), which calls for a systems level approach to identify key vulnerabilities and optimal treatment strategies. …”
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Global data for ecology and epidemiology: a novel algorithm for temporal Fourier processing MODIS data. by Jörn P W Scharlemann, David Benz, Simon I Hay, Bethan V Purse, Andrew J Tatem, G R William Wint, David J Rogers

“…The algorithm was then applied to produce layers that capture the seasonality in MODIS data for the period from 2001 to 2005.…”
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Drying Behavior and Effect of Drying Temperatures on Cyanide, Bioactive Compounds, and Quality of Dried Cassava Leaves by Sawittree Chaiareekitwat, Marcus Nagle, Busarakorn Mahayothee, Pramote Khuwijitjaru, Parika Rungpichayapichet, Sajid Latif, Joachim Müller

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Gradient material Pd-PdHx by M. V. Goltsova, I. G. Zhirov, D. A. Nazarov

“…In the first moments of saturation the layer of PdHx is formed in palladium subsurface layers and a side near copper is free from hydrogen. …”
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Contact fracture behavior of ice by V. P. Epifanov

“…The formation of an intermediate layer under hydrostatic compression at a shear appearing due to the action of converging and diverging fronts of stress momentums (pulses) is considered. …”
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Dynamic Process of Dry Snow Slab Avalanche Formation: Theory, Experiment and Numerical Simulation by Peng Yue, Binbin Pei, Jie Zhang, Ning Huang

“…The formation of avalanches is the consequence of a series of fracture processes in the snowpack, which is usually induced by the failure of a weak layer underlying a snow slab layer. …”
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Experimental Study of Wear Resistance Improvement of Modular Disk Milling Cutter by Preliminary Pre-Processing Method by Karibek Sherov, Almat Sagitov, Gulim Tusupbekova, Aibek Sherov, Gulnara Kokayeva, Dinara Kossatbekova, Gulnur Abdugaliyeva, Nurgul Karsakova

“…As a result of modeling with the ANSYS 2024 R1 program, it was found that a hardened layer is indeed formed on the cutting part of the modular disk mill after pre-processing. …”
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