Concrete Bridge Crack Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Image Segmentation by Yanli Chen, Hongze Li, Hang Zhu, Tianlong Ren, Zhe Cao

“…Concrete bridge cracks are critical indicators for maintenance planning. Traditional visual inspections are often subjective, labor-intensive, and time-consuming, requiring close-range access by inspectors. …”
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Enhancing Weibo Sentiment Analysis With Multi-Modal Learning: Integrating Text and Synthesized Images With Contrastive Learning by Chuyang Wang, Jessada Konpang, Adisorn Sirikham, Shasha Tian

“…Integrated with a self-supervised contrastive learning objective, this approach empowers our model to extract knowledge from unlabeled data and achieve enhanced comprehension of nuanced emotional cues. Our method enhances sentiment analysis on microblogs by introducing a framework that captures both text and synthesized visual cues, enabling deeper sentiment interpretation. …”
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Photon Counting Integral Imaging Using Compound Photon Counting Model and Adaptive Parametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator by Jiajia Qi, Guohua Gu, Weiji He, Qian Chen

“…It is shown that our proposed method outperforms the conventional MLE for the photon counting 3-D integral imaging reconstruction.…”
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Chronic pain experiences of immigrant Indian women in Canada: A photovoice exploration by Nida Mustafa, Shreeyaa Ramana, Margaret MacNeill, Judy Watt-Watson, Gillian Einstein

“…Photovoice is one such method that utilizes individuals’ own photography to document their lived experiences.Aims The current study utilized an arts-based method to explore immigrant Indian women’s chronic pain experiences in Canada and aimed to enhance the understanding of those experiences by creating a visual opportunity for them to share their stories.Methods Twelve immigrant Indian women captured photographs and participated in one-on-one interviews exploring daily experiences of chronic pain.Results Women’s photographs, and description of these photographs, provided a visual entry into their lives and pain experiences. …”
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Mutation Screening of the CYP1B1 Gene Reveals Novel and Recurrent Pathogenic Variants in Pakistani Primary Congenital Glaucoma Patients by Waqas Ali Surhio, Feriha Fatima Khidri, Mohsin Iqbal Haroon, Samia Mehmood, Yar Muhammad Waryah

“…ARMS Assay method and the Sanger sequencing method were adopted to detect pathogenic variants. …”

Cross modal recipe retrieval with fine grained modal interaction by Fan Zhao, Yuqing Lu, Zhuo Yao, Fangying Qu

“…Further, we embed a text-contextualized visual enhancing (TCVE) module into an intermediate layer of the image encoder to enrich the visual encoder. …”
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Big2Small: Learning from masked image modelling with heterogeneous self‐supervised knowledge distillation by Ziming Wang, Shumin Han, Xiaodi Wang, Jing Hao, Xianbin Cao, Baochang Zhang

“…Masked image modelling (MIM) methods achieve great success in various visual tasks but remain largely unexplored in knowledge distillation for heterogeneous deep models. …”
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Application of Design Thinking For The Design of Bogor Batik Tilu Sauyunan Motif by Asep Taryana, Sri Ratna Handayani Budhie, Amelia Rizky Savitri, Meira Dewi Arianingrum

“…Findings/Results: The analysis reveals that applying the design thinking method to the creation of the Tilu Sauyunan batik motif successfully establishes a visual identity that encapsulates the cultural essence and identity of Bogor. …”
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Application of UAV and satellite technologies for assessing phytophthora root rot severity in avocado orchards by S. Duncan, A. McLeod, C. Poblete-Echeverria

“…The current commercially accepted method for determining PRR severity in canopies consists of a visual estimation using the ‘Ciba-Geigy’ rating scale. …”
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Feasibility of Assessing the Abnormal Pediatric Airway Using Rotational Optical Coherence TomographyTake-Home Points by Sune Rubak, MD, PhD, Anne Katrine Bak Poulsen, MD, Signe Thim, MD, Nagarajan Muthialu, MD, Thomas Kjærgaard, MD, PhD, Emil Nielsen Holck, MD, PhD

“…Results showed that OCT is a feasible method for visualizing and quantifying stenoses of the lower pediatric airway by measuring the mean and minimum lumen areas. …”
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Spatial Effects in the Context of Kazakhstan’s Regions by A. R. Kerimbayev, Y. B. Bukatov, A. Kudebayeva, L. S. Spankulova

“…The following scientific methods were used in the study: historical method, and statistical method. …”
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Study the relationship between the lifestyle of women and violence against them in series by abouzar kasemi, Ebrahim Mirzaei, Ali Ayar

“…The statistical population of the studied women is equal to 4650 that 355 people have been selected as the sample through Cochran's formula and a questionnaire (and interview) has been distributed among them by random sampling method. …”
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Les prescrits d’égalité des chances : rhétoriques ou pas seulement ? by Corinne Monney

“…This article, in the field of Sociology of Organizations and Ergonomic Psychology, highlights, following the results of a doctoral research based on the inductive method of the anchored theory (Glaser et Strauss, 2010), three profiles of teacher trainers in their relationship to the more equal prescriptions. …”
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Landing State Recognition of Carrier-Based Aircraft Based on Adaptive Feature Enhancement and Fusion by WANG Ke, LIU Yiyang, YANG Jie, LU Aiguo, LI Zhe, XU Mingliang

“…To evaluate the performance of the method proposed, hybrid datasets of landing operations are constructed. …”
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Efficient Phase Step Determination Approach for Four-Quadrant Wind Imaging Interferometer by Tingyu Yan, William Ward, Chunmin Zhang, Shiping Guo

“…In this paper, we describe a new phase step determination approach based on the Lissajous figure, which provides an efficient, accurate, and visual method for the characterization and calibration of this type of instrument. …”
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The Opportunity of Using Diode Laser with the Length of 1940 nm in the Treatment of Hemorrhoids by S. A. Frolov, A. M. Kuzminov, D. V. Vyshegorodtsev, O. A. Mainovskaya, Yu. L. Trubacheva, O. Yu. Fomenko, V. Yu. Korolik, I. S. Bogormistrov, I. A. Mukhin, A. M. Battalova, E. M. Bogdanova

“…A new treatment method based on the use of a diode laser with a wavelength of 1940 nm was applied to all patients. …”
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Enhanced Emotion Recognition Through Dynamic Restrained Adaptive Loss and Extended Multimodal Bottleneck Transformer by Dang-Khanh Nguyen, Eunchae Lim, Soo-Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Seungwon Kim

“…Emotion recognition in video aims to estimate human emotions using acoustic, visual, and linguistic information. This problem is considered multimodal and requires learning different modalities, such as visual, verbal, and vocal cues. …”
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Microvascular Ultrasonic Imaging of Angiogenesis Identifies Tumors in a Murine Spontaneous Breast Cancer Model by Sarah E. Shelton, Jodi Stone, Fei Gao, Donglin Zeng, Paul A. Dayton

“…A reader study was used to assess visual discrimination between image types, and quantitative methods utilized metrics of tortuosity and spatial clustering for tumor detection. …”
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Spectral OCT Angiography in the Assessment of Biomarkers of Diabetic Macular Edema in Navigation Laser Treatment by P. L. Volodin, E. V. Ivanova, E. Iu. Polyakova, A. V. Fomin

“…Purpose — to study visualized biomarkers before and after navigation laser treatment in patients with diabetic macular edema (DMO) using optical coherence tomography-angiography (OCT-A).Methods. 85 patients (85 eyes) with focal DMO were under observation. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Architecture With Fast Lightweight Encoder and Transformer Under Attention Fusion for the Enhancement of Sand Dust and Haze Image Restoration by Muhammad Khawaja Kashif Masood, Enrique Nava Baro, Pablo Otero

“…The results show that the proposed method outperforms all previous conventional and advanced deep learning methods in terms of visual quality, evaluation metrics, training and testing time, and novel EEI.…”
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