Analysis of comprehensive biomolecules in critically ill patients via bioinformatics technologies by Hisatake Matsumoto, Hiroshi Ogura, Jun Oda

“…The development of these methods is expected to visualize the heterogeneity of patient backgrounds and lead to personalized therapy.…”
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The clinical characteristics, treatment and prognosis differences between occipital brain tumors with venous flow obstruction and occipital brain tumors without venous flow obstruc... by Ofira Zloto, Mati Bakon, Ruth Huna-Baron

“…The control group included, an age matched group of patients with occipital tumor who presented due to homonymous visual disturbances, visual hallucinations or incidental homonymous visual field defect but without symptoms of increased intracranial pressure at presentation. …”
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Anterior Lens Curvature Matters in the Course of Primary Angle Closure: An Analysis Based on Ultrasound Biomicroscopic Imaging by Tingting Liu, Mengwei Li, Xiaoxiao Chen, Zhenying Jiang, Xiangmei Li, Xinghuai Sun, Jiajian Wang, Yuhong Chen

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What Horses and Humans See: A Comparative Review by Jack Murphy, Carol Hall, Sean Arkins

“…Although further investigation is required in order to appreciate fully both the capabilities and limitations of the equine visual system, the information currently available should now be considered and applied more rigorously both in the design of the equine environment and in the implementation of contemporary equine training methods. …”
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Oriental Otherness Represented in French Chamber Works of the 19th Century: David, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Debussy by Mădălina Dana RUCSANDA, Noémi KARÁCSONY

“… The present article aims to reveal the methods used by 19th century French composers when representing Otherness. …”
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Determining parameters of surface defects in the base metal of pipelines using results of complex diagnostics by N.V. Krysko, S.V. Skrynnikov, N.A. Shchipakov, D.M. Kozlov, A.G. Kusyy

“…We discuss issues of determining surface operational defects parameters using results of complex diagnostics including ultrasonic, eddy current and visual non-destructive testing methods. We note that the visual method is implemented using a television camera with a computer vision function and a laser triangulation sensor. …”
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Body Mass Index in Clinic Attenders: Patient Self-Perception versus Actual Measurements by S. Pooransingh, K. Ramgulam, I. Dialsingh

“…A cross sectional study. Methods. The actual BMIs in patients who attended chronic disease clinics in 14 health centres were measured. …”
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The maintenance of modified electroconvulsive therapy combined with risperidone is better than risperidone alone in preventing relapse of schizophrenia and improving cognitive func... by Ying Yang, Xiaojing Cheng, Qingzhi Xu, Renjun Li, Zengxun Liu, Liping Wang, Yanqing Zhang, Guoqiang Ren, Jintong Liu

“…Relative to the baseline evaluation, patients showed statistically significant improvement in verbal memory and visual memory. At the final assessment, the scores of verbal and visual memory were remarkably lower in the experimental group than the controls but there was no significant difference in other tests. …”
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Comparison between sulcus-implanted three-piece hydrophobic intraocular lens and bagal-implanted single-piece intraocular lens in combined diabetic phacoemulsification and pars pla... by Mohsen Abou Shousha, Mohamed H. Said

“…Conclusion The three-piece sulcus IOL proved to be superior over the single-piece IOL in the capsular bag technique in terms of visual acuity, IOP, improved visual outcome, and fewer postoperative complications.…”
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Efficacy of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of venous trophic ulcers: results from the experiment by B. V. Boldin, P. Yu. Turkin, A. P. Oettinger, V. Yu. Bogachev, N. O. Somov, S. G. Kuzmin, V. B. Loschenov, L. M. Mikhaleva, K. Yu. Midiber

“…A series of experiments was conducted on 21 rabbits, separated into 3 equal groups of 7 rabbits each. Venous trophic ulcer was originally modeled for all rabbits. …”
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Sagittal alignment to predict efficiency in pulsed radiofrequency for cervical facet joint pain by Cheng-Yo Yen, Sheng-Min Lin, Hong Yu Chen, Shih-Wei Wang, Yu-Duan Tsai, Cien-Leong Chye, Te-Yuan Chen, Hao-Kuang Wang, Kuo-Wei Wang

“…The patients were classified into good and poor outcome groups based on the improvement of the pain score(visual analog scale). Clinical and radiological data were analyzed. …”
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The role of electroneuromyography evaluation of the bulbocavernosal reflex in the diagnosis of pelvic nerve damage in patients with chronic pelvic pain syndrome by I. A. Labetov, G. V. Kovalev, O. V. Volkova, R. R. Shakirova, A. A. Berdichevskaya, D. D. Shkarupa

“…One of the additional instrumental methods for diagnosing pudendal neuropathy is needle electroneuromyography (ENMG) of the bulbocavernosus reflex (BCR). …”
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Breaking Diagnostic Barriers: Vision Transformers Redefine Monkeypox Detection by Gelan Ayana, Beshatu Debela Wako, So-yun Park, Jude Kong, Sahng Min Han, Soon-Do Yoon, Se-woon Choe

“…<b>Background/Objective:</b> The global spread of Monkeypox (Mpox) has highlighted the urgent need for rapid, accurate diagnostic tools. Traditional methods like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are resource-intensive, while skin image-based detection offers a promising alternative. …”
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Application of Enhanced Weighted Least Squares with Dark Background Image Fusion for Inhomogeneity Noise Removal in Brain Tumor Hyperspectral Images by Jiayue Yan, Chenglong Tao, Yuan Wang, Jian Du, Meijie Qi, Zhoufeng Zhang, Bingliang Hu

“…The image processed by this method has almost no residual non-uniform noise, the image is clear, and the best visual effect is achieved. …”
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TMN-Net: A Hybrid 2.5D Multi-Branch Transformer Network for Coronary Artery Segmentation in Cardiac Diagnosis by Bo Zhao, Jianjun Peng, Kai Zhang, Yongyan Fan, Ce Chen, Yang Zhang

“…Novel post-processing fusion strategies, including slice fusion and maximum fusion methods, further refine boundary alignment and mitigate false negatives. …”
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SmartExplorer1.0: A Novel Intelligent Framework for Path Planning in Robotics by Chiara Furio, Angelo Ugenti, Giulio Reina, Mario Massimo Foglia, Luciano Lamberti

“…Compared to traditional methods such as A<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${}^{\ast }$ </tex-math></inline-formula> or the Artificial Potential Field (APF), and modern metaheuristic methods such as Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ast $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (RRT<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ast $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), SE1.0 offers superior adaptability. …”
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Corneal morphometric and biomechanical properties in patients with pathological and uncomplicated high myopia by L.V. Bushnina, O.V. Kolenko, N.V. Pomytkina, E.L. Sorokin, Ya.E. Pashentsev

“…Research methods aimed to clinical assessment of the strength properties of the corneoscleral capsule of the eye are interest to predict the risk of developing myopic staphylomas. …”
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Understanding the association between skin involvement and joint activity in patients with psoriatic arthritis: experience from the Corrona Registry by Philip J Mease, Jeffrey D Greenberg, Carol J Etzel, William J Huster, Talia M Muram, April W Armstrong, Jeffrey R Lisse, Sabrina Rebello, Rhiannon Dodge, Mwangi James Murage, William N Malatestinic

“…Objective To compare the characteristics of patients with psoriatic arthritis among patient groups stratified by degree of skin and joint involvement, and to evaluate the relationship between skin severity and joint activity.Methods Body surface area (BSA) and Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) at enrolment were analysed. …”
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Image recognition system for ecological restoration of high and steep slopes in open pit mines based on improved VGG16 by Yongfeng Gong, Jianwei Zhou, Gang Zhang, Ran Li, Guorui Wang, Xiaofeng He, Zhiyong Hu

“…Moreover, such images are susceptible to factors such as ambient light and occlusion, leading to inefficiency and subjectivity in traditional monitoring methods. To improve the accuracy and automation of slope restoration monitoring, an image recognition system combining improved visual geometry group 16-layer network (IVGG16), U-shaped network (U-Net), and capsule networks (CapsNet) is designed in this study. …”
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SSDFusion: A Semantic Segmentation Driven Framework for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion by Qishen Lv, Rui Yang, Chengmin Zhang, Shuaihui Liu, Xinyan Fan, Zihao Luo

“…However, existing infrared and visible image fusion methods often lack attention to the semantic information and global context information in the original images. …”
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