Relaxation-exchange magnetic resonance imaging (REXI): a non-invasive imaging method for evaluating trans-barrier water exchange in the choroid plexus by Xuetao Wu, Qingping He, Yu Yin, Shuyuan Tan, Baogui Zhang, Weiyun Li, Yi-Cheng Hsu, Rong Xue, Ruiliang Bai

“…., blood vessels and epithelial cells) and CSF. It uses a filter block to remove most CP tissue magnetization (shorter T 2), a mixing block for CP-CSF water exchange with mixing time t m, and a detection block with multi-echo acquisition to determine the CP/CSF component fraction after exchange. …”
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Case Report: High efficacy of low-dose flecainide as an add-on therapy to a beta-blocker for treating a high burden of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias in a juvenile athlete by Georgios A. Christou, Georgios A. Christou, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Maria Konstandi, Maria A. Christou, Konstantinos A. Christou, Christos Kyriakopoulos, Eleftherios Vidalakis, Stelios Tigas, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou, Dimitrios N. Kiortsis, Dimitrios N. Kiortsis

“…The detection of frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) in an athlete represents one of the most important red flags during pre-participation screening. …”
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The Automatic Joint Teeth Segmentation in Panoramic Dental Images using Mask Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks with Residual Feature Extraction: by Raghavendra H. Bhalerao, Abhijeet Ashok Salunke, Shristi Sharan, Kamlesh Kumar, Priyank Rathod, Prince Kumar, Manish Chaturvedi, Nandlal Bharwani, Krupa Shah, Dhruv Patel, Keval Patel, Vikas Warikoo, Manisha Abhijeet Salunke, Shashank Pandya

“…Material and Methods In this study, a sequence of residual blocks are used to construct a 62-layer feature extraction network in lieu of ResNet50/101 in MRCNN. …”
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Acute remote home monitoring of acutely ill patients with COVID-19: how Dutch home monitoring initiatives were organized during the pandemic by Karin Smit, Rick T. van Uum, Stella Rijks, Alma C. van de Pol, Abeer Ahmad, Roderick P. Venekamp, Frans H. Rutten, Dorien L. M. Zwart, the Dutch General Practitioners Research Consortium

“…Abstract Background Acute remote home monitoring of acutely ill patients with COVID-19 holds potential for early detection of deterioration and thus subsequentearly intervention that may prevent or mitigate progression to severe illness and need for respiratory support. …”
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YOLOv8-GABNet: An Enhanced Lightweight Network for the High-Precision Recognition of Citrus Diseases and Nutrient Deficiencies by Qiufang Dai, Yungao Xiao, Shilei Lv, Shuran Song, Xiuyun Xue, Shiyao Liang, Ying Huang, Zhen Li

“…Existing deep learning models for detecting citrus diseases and nutritional deficiencies grapple with issues related to recognition accuracy, complex backgrounds, occlusions, and the need for lightweight architecture. …”
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Wheat Powdery Mildew Severity Classification Based on an Improved ResNet34 Model by Meilin Li, Yufeng Guo, Wei Guo, Hongbo Qiao, Lei Shi, Yang Liu, Guang Zheng, Hui Zhang, Qiang Wang

“…Further refinements included embedding a Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) block to strengthen feature representation while maintaining computational efficiency. …”
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Study on the efficacy of IFN-γ- and sPD-1-overexpressing BMSCs in enhancing immune effects for the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma by Yahui Xie, Zhen Lv, Yubin Wang, Jin Ma, Xingmin Wei, Guisen Zheng, Jianjun Wu

“…BackgroundSoluble programmed cell death receptor-1 (sPD-1) blocks the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, reverses tumor immune suppression, and inhibits tumor growth. …”
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A comprehensive transcriptome based meta-analysis to unveil the aggression nexus of oral squamous cell carcinoma by Soujanya J. Vastrad, Ganesan Rajalekshmi Saraswathy, Jagadish B. Dasari, Gouri Nair, Ashok Madarakhandi, Dominic Augustine, S.V. Sowmya

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Circulating Endothelin-1 as a Diagnostic Marker in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Cross-sectional Study by Anitha Rajendiran, S Sumathi, S Giridharan, V Kuzhandaivelu

“…When a coronary artery is blocked, it results in a substantial reduction in blood flow, which causes some of the heart muscle supplied by that artery to become infarcted. …”
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Rapid molecular testing or chest X-ray or tuberculin skin testing for household contact assessment of tuberculosis infection: A cluster-randomized trial. by Menonli Adjobimey, Anete Trajman, Mayara Lisboa Bastos, Chantal Valiquette, Diana Gibson, Frimege Djohoun, Olivia Oxlade, Federica Fregonese, Dissou Affolabi, Valentin Kouchade, Elisa Aguiar, Renata Spener-Gomes, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos, Renato T Stein, Marcelo Scotta, Andrea Benedetti, Dick Menzies

“…Secondary outcomes were: completion of investigations to detect TBI and TBD, detection of TBD, TPT completion, severe adverse events, and societal costs.…”
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PHOENIX (Picking up Hidden Osteoporosis Effectively during Normal CT Imaging without additional X-rays): protocol for a randomised, multicentre feasibility study by Lee Shepstone, Jane Fleming, Stephen K Kaptoge, Emma Clark, Adam P Wagner, Kenneth E S Poole, Daniel D G Chappell, Thomas D Turmezei, Karen Willoughby

“…Those at increased 10-year risk (within the amber or red zones of the UK FRAX graphical outputs for further action) are block randomised (1:1:1) to (1) PHOENIX intervention, (2) active control or (3) usual care. …”
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A novel approach to regulate glucose uptake in an anaplastic thyroid cancer cell line by Shabnam Heydarzadeh, Ali Asghar Moshtaghie, Maryam Daneshpour, Mehdi Hedayati

“…Conclusion: It can be concluded that GLUTs, as metabolic targets, can be blocked specifically by curcumin for thyroid cancer prevention. …”
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Application of MRI image segmentation algorithm for brain tumors based on improved YOLO by Tao Yang, Xueqi Lu, Lanlan Yang, Miyang Yang, Jinghui Chen, Hongjia Zhao

“…ObjectiveTo assist in the rapid clinical identification of brain tumor types while achieving segmentation detection, this study investigates the feasibility of applying the deep learning YOLOv5s algorithm model to the segmentation of brain tumor magnetic resonance images and optimizes and upgrades it on this basis.MethodsThe research institute utilized two public datasets of meningioma and glioma magnetic resonance imaging from Kaggle. …”
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MTAP deficiency is highly homogeneous in advanced, muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder by Natalia Gorbokon, Katharina Teljuk, Viktor Reiswich, Florian Lutz, Sebastian Dwertmann Rico, Clara Lühr, Christian Bernreuther, Yaryna Klos Al Bunni, Cosima Völkel, Henning Plage, Maximilian Lennartz, Margit Fisch, Sarah Minner, Ronald Simon, Guido Sauter, Henrik Zecha, Stefan Steurer, Thorsten Schlomm, Tatjana Vlajnic, Lukas Bubendorf, Michael Rink, Martina Kluth, Florian Viehweger, Morton Freytag

“…In addition, all tumor containing blocks (1–15, average 6.4) from 41 consecutive pT2-4 carcinomas were analyzed by IHC. …”
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The V5-Epitope Tag for Cell Engineering and Its Use in Immunohistochemistry and Quantitative Flow Cytometry by Katja Fritschle, Marion Mielke, Olga J. Seelbach, Ulrike Mühlthaler, Milica Živanić, Tarik Bozoglu, Sarah Dötsch, Linda Warmuth, Dirk H. Busch, Arne Skerra, Christian Kupatt, Wolfgang A. Weber, Richard E. Randall, Katja Steiger, Volker Morath

“…For these applications, the detection, localization, and quantification of heterologous fusion proteins assembled from interchangeable building blocks is of high importance. …”
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Multimodal Computational Approach for Forecasting Cardiovascular Aging Based on Immune and Clinical–Biochemical Parameters by Madina Suleimenova, Kuat Abzaliyev, Ainur Manapova, Madina Mansurova, Symbat Abzaliyeva, Saule Doskozhayeva, Akbota Bugibayeva, Almagul Kurmanova, Diana Sundetova, Merey Abdykassymova, Ulzhas Sagalbayeva

“…The aim of the study was to develop a predictive model allowing for the early detection of predisposition to the development of CVDs and their complications. …”
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Facial Expression Recognition and Digital Images Infosecurity for Prevention Care System Application in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Monitoring by Chih-Te Tsai, Chia-Hung Lin, Hsiang-Yueh Lai, Yu-En Cheng, Ping-Tzan Huang, Neng-Sheng Pai, Chien-Ming Li

“…In the FER, the YOLOv10 (You Only Look Once, version 10)-based classifier functions as an automatic object detection (OD) framework, enabling infant facial capture and expression recognition. …”
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Nucleic Acid Aptamers for Human Norovirus GII.4 and GII.17 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) Exhibit Specific Binding and Inhibit VLPs from Entering Cells by Cheng C, Sun M, Li J, Xue Y, Cai X, Liu J, Wang X, Xu S, Xie Y, Zhang J

“…Due to antigenic diversity, the discovery of ligands that can sensitively and specifically detect HuNoVs remains challenging. Limited by laboratory culture, no vaccines or drugs have been developed against HuNoVs. …”
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Should Cefoxitin Non-Susceptibility in Ceftriaxone-Susceptible <i>E. coli</i> and <i>K. pneumoniae</i> Prompt Concerns Regarding Plasmid-Mediated AmpC Resistance? A Genomic Charact... by Jonathan Jinpeng Foo, Ying Ying Ong, Clement Kin Ming Tsui, David C. Lye, De Partha Pratim, Nurhidayah Binte Mohamed Yazid, Swaine L. Chen, Shawn Vasoo, Tat Ming Ng

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A Hardware Implementation of Spaceborne SAR BP Algorithm Based on Precise Region Focusing and Hardware&#x2013;Software Collaboration by Yongrui Li, Liang Chen, Pengnan Zheng, Jie Ding, Zhihan Zhang, Zhu Yang, Yizhuang Xie, Han Li

“…Combined with image detection and recognition, it can rapidly downlink and distribute the effective information. …”
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