Development of a population of digital brain phantoms for radionuclide imaging research in Parkinson’s disease by Wenbo Huang, Han Jiang, Guang-Uei Hung, Yonghua Zhao, Ruibing Wang, Greta S. P. Mok

“…Results A population of 1000 normal and abnormal PD phantoms was generated for both tracers. Visual comparisons and quantitative analyses demonstrated that simulated data exhibited high similarity to clinical data. …”
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“GLORY TO ARTISTIC SKILL”: EKPHRASIS OF FINE ARTS IN P. ZAHREBELNYI`S NOVEL “WONDER” by Nataliia L. Bilyk.

“…The study is based on the methods of cultural-semiotic and structural-semantic analysis in combination with descriptive and comparative-typological approaches. …”
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The difference in clinical characteristics between patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment during partial and complete lock-down periods related to COVID-19 pandemics 2-yea... by Mehmet Ozgur Zengin, Yusuf Ziya Güven, Mehmet Vural, Gozde Sahin Vural, Omer Karti, Eyyup Karahan

“…The demographic data of patients, the duration from the beginning of the visual symptoms to hospital admission, the status of lens, the anatomical quadrant of retinal break, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at presentation, the type of intraocular tamponade, and final BCVA were recorded. …”
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Effects of intensive laryngeal manual therapy on acoustic measures of patients with muscle tension dysphonia: a single-subject study by Seyede Saghar Hashemnia, Kowsar Baghban, Mohammad-Amin Nazari, Motahareh Manoosi, Ali Moshtagh

“…Abstract Purpose This study aimed to investigate the effects of intensive laryngeal manual therapy on voice quality in patients with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) using acoustic analysis. Methods Four female participants (21–25 years) with primary MTD were recruited via convenience sampling. …”
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3D-augmentation of 2D ultrasound for appendicitis diagnosis: A cross-sectional pilot study by Rebecca G. Theophanous, Elias Jaffa, Matthew R. Morgan, Carl D. Herickhoff, Erica Peethumnongsin, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Joshua S. Broder

“…Secondary outcomes were 3DUS image quality, with visual demonstrations of appendicitis findings compared to clinical imaging. …”
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The Correlation between Corneal Findings and Disease Severity in Keratoconus per Scheimpflug Corneal Tomography by Ahmed E. M. Shehata, James W. Foster, Albert S. Jun, Uri S. Soiberman

“…This study aims to correlate the clinical signs of keratoconus (KC) which include superficial apical scarring, Fleischer rings, and Vogt striae with best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) and corneal tomography findings. …”
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From Simulation to Field Validation: A Digital Twin-Driven Sim2real Transfer Approach for Strawberry Fruit Detection and Sizing by Omeed Mirbod, Daeun Choi, John K. Schueller

“…Traditional simulators often lack visual realism, leading many studies to mix real images or adopt domain adaptation methods to address the reality gap. …”
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MULTISEMIOTIC PATTERNS OF EMOTIVE MEANING-MAKING IN FILM by Tetiana A. Krysanova, Iryna S. Shevchenko

“…In film, emotive meaning emerges at the intersection of audial and visual modes as realized by different semiotic resources. …”
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Art psychotherapy meets creative AI: an integrative review positioning the role of creative AI in art therapy process by Ania Zubala, Alison Pease, Kacper Lyszkiewicz, Simon Hackett, Simon Hackett

“…A constructive dialogue between the disciplines of creative AI and art psychotherapy is needed, to establish potential relevance of AI-bases technologies to therapeutic practice involving artmaking and creative self-expression.MethodsThis integrative review set out to explore whether and how creative AI could enhance the practice of art psychotherapy and other psychological interventions utilizing visual communication and/or artmaking. …”
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Preoperative Steroid Use in Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment Associated with Choroidal Detachment after 23-Gauge Vitrectomy by Jianhua Wu, Rui Zhang, Junwen He, Changzhong Xu, Zhaohui Li

“…Preoperative steroid use does not improve retinal reattachment and visual acuity in patients with RRDCD after 23-gauge PPV. …”
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The effect of different degrees of visible trephine-based foraminoplasty in PETD surgery on lumbar biomechanics: a finite element analysis by Duohua Li, Wei Sun

“…PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of the degree of facet joint resection under the combined action of large-channel endoscopy and visualized trephines on lumbar biomechanics.MethodsThe original CT data of a healthy male volunteer were selected. …”
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Reduced Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Glaucoma by N. M. Agarkov, A. M. Chukhraev, O. L. Fabrikantov, N. V. Yablokova

“…The survey was conducted on a special questionnaire-National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire among patients of the above group by direct interviewing. …”
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Accessibility of medical information leaflets for patients in emergency care settings in Japan by Moe Sekine, Aya Goto, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Makoto Onodera, Yurie Kobashi, Ken Iseki

“…To improve accessibility, it is necessary to aim for a readability level of ninth grade or below, to explain numerical values with easy-to-understand language, and to use a visually clear layout.…”
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Unmet healthcare needs of people with disabilities: evidence from the 2018–2021 Korean disability and life dynamics panel by Jun Su Park, Bomgyeol Kim, Soo Hyeok Choi, Vasuki Rajaguru, Tae Hyun Kim

“…Governments and policymakers must make efforts to reduce and prevent unmet healthcare needs among people with intellectual and visual disabilities.…”
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Determination of related substances of travoprost in travoprost and timolol maleate eye drops by HPLC by LI Yujun, CHEN Jieting

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Detección de la presencia de grietas cerradas en elementos tipo viga mediante la transformada wavelet. // Losing crack detection in beams using wavelet transform. by J. Rodríguez Matienzo

“…This is known as<br />structural health monitoring (SHM). Several methods, the most of them visuals, are employed. These require a direct access<br />to the possible damaged zone an can be very time consuming and costly, a reason by which the researchers in this field are<br />focused in others method, like modal analysis. …”
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Reliability and Validity of Fall Efficacy Scale-International in People with Parkinson’s Disease during On- and Off-Drug Phases by Maryam Mehdizadeh, Pablo Martinez-Martin, Seyed-Amirhasan Habibi, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Amirabas Abasi, Javad Niazi Khatoon, Seyed Hassan Saneii, Ghorban Taghizadeh

“…Convergent validity of FES-I was established with Visual Analog Scale-Fear of Falling, Berg Balance Scale, and Functional Reach Test. …”
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Robust Infrared–Visible Fusion Imaging with Decoupled Semantic Segmentation Network by Xuhui Zhang, Yunpeng Yin, Zhuowei Wang, Heng Wu, Lianglun Cheng, Aimin Yang, Genping Zhao

“…However, most of the available fusion methods have only been evaluated with subjective metrics of visual quality of the fused images, which are often independent of the following relevant high-level visual tasks. …”
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Intravitreal conbercept for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy with occult CNV: a retrospective clinical study based on multimodal ophthalmic imaging by Suyu Wang, Jiajun Li, Zhipeng Yan, Qin Jiang, Keran Li

“…PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and safety of intravitreal conbercept in patients with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (cCSC) complicated by occult choroidal neovascularization (CNV), and to explore its potential in improving visual function and various ophthalmic parameters.MethodsThis retrospective, longitudinal, comparative study included 50 patients diagnosed with cCSC and occult CNV. …”
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Evaluation of laparoscopic surgery effects on pain severity and quality of life in different subtypes of endometriosis: A follow-up study by Mania Kaveh, Haniye Malakouti, Shahla Chaichian, Abolfazl Mehdizadeh Kashi, Mahdi Afshari, Kambiz Sadegi

“…Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of laparoscopic surgery on the severity of pain and the QoL of women with different types of endometriosis. Materials and Methods: In this follow-up study 50 women with endometriosis, who underwent laparoscopic surgery, who met a high visual analog score (> 6) with impaired QoL, lack of response to analgesics, infertility with pain unresponsive to assisted reproductive therapy, and involvement of other organs such as the bowel or ureter at the Amir Al Momenin hospital, Zabol, Iran, from August 2022 to January 2023 were enrolled. …”
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