Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Double Gray-Values Descend Angle Contrast Measure by Song Guan, Dali Zhou, Xiaodong Wang, Pengji Zhou

“…Experimental evaluations were conducted on four publicly available datasets, comparing our proposed approach with seven existing algorithms. The results demonstrate that our method facilitates rapid detection of small targets affected by salt noise within complex backgrounds while exhibiting exceptional detection capabilities and real-time performance. …”
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A Comparative Study of Data-Driven Prognostic Approaches under Training Data Deficiency by Jinwoo Song, Seong Hee Cho, Seokgoo Kim, Jongwhoa Na, Joo-Ho Choi

“…In industrial system health management, prognostics play a crucial role in ensuring safety and enhancing system availability. While the data-driven approach is the most common for this purpose, they often face challenges due to insufficient training data. …”
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Fraud Detection in Privacy Preserving Health Insurance System Using Blockchain Technology by Md. Mazharul Islam, Mubasshir Ahmed, Rajesh Palit, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Salekul Islam

“…Privacy is preserved using cryptographic techniques such as secure hashing and anonymous credentials, which ensure that sensitive patient information remains confidential throughout the claim process. Smart contract algorithms are utilized in two scenarios: patient‐submitted claims and healthcare provider‐submitted claims, ensuring accurate processing and validation while detecting fraudulent activities such as duplicate claims, inflated medical bills, billing for unprovided services, falsifying patient records, and submitting claims for nonexistent treatments. …”
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Enhancing Privacy in IoT-Enabled Digital Infrastructure: Evaluating Federated Learning for Intrusion and Fraud Detection by Amogh Deshmukh, Peplluis Esteva de la Rosa, Raul Villamarin Rodriguez, Sandeep Dasari

“…To mitigate this, solutions using federated averaging (FedAvg), federated proximal (FedProx), and federated optimization methods have been proposed. These methods work with data locality during training at local clients without exposing data, while maintaining global convergence to enhance the privacy of local models within the framework. …”
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Dynamic Monitoring and Precision Fertilization Decision System for Agricultural Soil Nutrients Using UAV Remote Sensing and GIS by Xiaolong Chen, Hongfeng Zhang, Cora Un In Wong

“…Real-time data processing algorithms enable rapid updates of soil nutrient status, while a time-series dynamic model captures seasonal variations and crop growth stage influences, improving prediction accuracy (RMSE reductions of 43–70% for nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium compared to conventional laboratory-based methods and satellite NDVI approaches). …”
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FLIP: A Novel Feedback Learning-Based Intelligent Plugin Towards Accuracy Enhancement of Chinese OCR by Xinyue Tao, Yueyue Han, Yakai Jin, Yunzhi Wu

“…The plugin’s modular design enables seamless integration without requiring modifications to existing OCR algorithms, while its feedback mechanism adapts to domain-specific terminology and user preferences. …”
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An End-to-End Solution for Large-Scale Multi-UAV Mission Path Planning by Jiazhan Gao, Liruizhi Jia, Minchi Kuang, Heng Shi, Jihong Zhu

“…However, traditional heuristic algorithms are frequently trapped in local optima, require task-specific manual tuning, and exhibit limited generalization capabilities. …”
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Adaptive Multi-Scale Bayesian Framework for MFL Inspection of Steel Wire Ropes by Xiaoping Li, Yujie Sun, Xinyue Liu, Shaoxuan Zhang

“…Future work will focus on optimizing algorithmic efficiency and exploring transfer learning techniques for enhanced adaptability across different non-destructive testing (NDT) domains. …”
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Attention-enhanced StrongSORT for robust vehicle tracking in complex environments by Wei Xu, Xiaodong Du, Ruochen Li, Bingjie Li, Yuhu Jiao, Lei Xing

“…Abstract While multi-object tracking is critical for autonomous driving systems, traditional algorithms exhibit three fundamental limitations in complex scenarios: (1) blurred feature representation under occlusion and re-identification scenarios causing identity switches, (2) insufficient sensitivity to scale-variant targets due to fixed geometric constraints in conventional IoU-based loss functions, and (3) gradient degradation in deep convolutional layers hindering discriminative feature learning. …”
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YOLORM: An Advanced Key Point Detection Method for Accurate and Efficient Rotameter Reading in Low Flow Environments by Huang Yong, Xia Xing, Xiao Shengwang

“…Moreover, YOLORM exhibited significant reductions in parameter count and computational cost while maintaining or enhancing detection performance relative to state-of-the-art algorithms. …”
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FQDNet: A Fusion-Enhanced Quad-Head Network for RGB-Infrared Object Detection by Fangzhou Meng, Aoping Hong, Hongying Tang, Guanjun Tong

“…Compared to state-of-the-art RGB-IR object detection algorithms, our method strikes a better balance between detection accuracy and computational efficiency while exhibiting strong robustness across diverse detection scenarios.…”
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Myocardial revascularization in diabetic patients presenting with critical limbischemia by Ivan Ivanovich Dedov, Victor Yur'evich Kalashnikov, Konstantin Vladimirovich Melkozerov

“…Macroangiopathy continues to bethe predominant complication while coronary heart disease is the main cause of mortality.This paper considers clinical features of diabetic patientswith coronary heart disease and critical limb ischemia; various aspects of optimal drug therapy, preoperative examination and diagnostics precedingvascular non-cardiac surgery; preoperative risk assessment; indications for coronary angiography and myocardial revascularization. …”
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Machine learning approaches for predicting frailty base on multimorbidities in US adults using NHANES data (1999–2018) by Teng Li, Xueke Li, Haoran XU, Yanyan Wang, Jingyu Ren, Shixiang Jing, Zichen Jin, Gang chen, Youyou Zhai, Zeyu Wu, Ge Zhang, Yuying Wang

“…We used areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and area under the precision-recall curve (AU-PRC) to evaluate six algorithms, select the optimal model, and test the discrimination and consistency of the optimal model. …”
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A Stochastic-Variational Model for Soft Mumford-Shah Segmentation by Jianhong (Jackie) Shen

“…In contemporary image and vision analysis, stochastic approaches demonstrate great flexibility in representing and modeling complex phenomena, while variational-PDE methods gain enormous computational advantages over Monte Carlo or other stochastic algorithms. …”
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Neural Networks vs. Regression: A Comparative Analysis in Medical Data Processing by Minodora ANDOR, Gheorghe Ioan MIHALAŞ

“…The regression model followed standard statistical guidelines, while the FFNN required optimization of hyperparameters, including the number of layers, activation functions, learning rate, and  optimization algorithms. …”
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GBM-Reservoir: Brain tumor (Glioblastoma Multiforme) MRI dataset collection with ground truth segmentation masksfigshare by Naida Solak, André Ferreira, Gijs Luijten, Behrus Puladi, Victor Alves, Jan Egger

“…The first mask is the raw output from the registration process and is provided for all samples, while the second mask, provided particularly for synthetic samples, is a post-processed version of the first, designed to simplify interpretation and optimize it for network training. …”
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Trajectory Tracking Nonlinear Hybrid Control of Automated Guided Vehicles by Antonio Sánchez-Rodríguez, Eduardo Bayona, J. Enrique Sierra-García, Matilde Santos

“…The stability of the controller is demonstrated for any differentiable trajectory. When a PID optimized with genetic algorithms is compared with the proposed controller for several trajectories, the LPC outperforms it in all cases.…”
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Neural network compression for reinforcement learning tasks by Dmitry A. Ivanov, Denis A. Larionov, Oleg V. Maslennikov, Vladimir V. Voevodin

“…This work presents a systematic study on the applicability limits of using pruning and quantization to optimize neural networks in RL tasks, with a perspective of deployment in hardware to reduce power consumption and latency, while increasing throughput.…”
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Probabilistic Operation of the Microgrids Including Active Loads and Distributed Generation Constrained to Flexibility and Reliability Indices by Hosein Hasan Shahi, Mehdi Nafar, Mohsen Simab

“…The ant-lion and crow search algorithms are merged to solve the problem and find a reliable optimal solution. …”
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Revolutionizing Diabetes Management Through Nanotechnology-Driven Smart Systems by Aayush Kaushal, Aanchal Musafir, Gourav Sharma, Shital Rani, Rajat Kumar Singh, Akhilesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Bhadada, Ravi Pratap Barnwal, Gurpal Singh

“…Diabetes is a global health challenge, and while current treatments offer relief, they often fall short in achieving optimal control and long-term outcomes. …”
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