Low-cost male urogenital simulator for penile implant surgery training: a 3D printing approach by Zixi Wang, Carlo Saija, Nicholas Raison, Abdullatif Aydin, Zhouyang Xu, Katie Zuo, Kawal Rhode, Antonia Pontiki

“…However, the growing complexity of modern high-tech penile prostheses has increased the demand for more practical training opportunities. …”
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Progress and key technology analysis of bronchoscopic robot by Xingguang DUAN, Dongsheng XIE, Fengxinyun FANG, Rui HE, Changsheng LI

“…This synergy allows for highly precise detection and treatment of lung tissue and lesions. …”
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A functionally tunable magnetic nanochains platform for N-glycoproteomic analysis of extracellular vesicles from ultratrace biofluids by Mingyang Li, Xiaorong Song, Haixia Tu, Jie Sun, Yuanyuan Deng, Bing Wang, Yuhan Cai, Yulian Wang, Bin Li, Yue Wang, Xiangzheng Zhang, Dong Wei, Xiaoyu Yang, Yueshuai Guo, Xiang Li, Jie Gu, Jie Ni, Yifan Zhou, Zhongze Gu, Zhuoying Xie, Yan Li, Xuejiang Guo

“…Abstract Extracellular vesicles (EVs) carry complex glycoproteins critical mediators of disease progression and hold great potential for liquid biopsy applications. …”
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Combining a COI Mini-Barcode with Next-Generation Sequencing for Animal Origin Ingredients Identification in Processed Meat Product by Yanyi Pan, Deyi Qiu, Jian Chen, Qiaoyun Yue

“…For revealing animal species in complex or adulterated processed meat product, we presented a method combining a novel cytochrome oxidase I (COI) mini-barcode with next-generation sequencing (NGS), which identifies various animal species (swine, bovine, Caprinae, and some of fish, shrimp, and poultry) accurately and efficiently in processed meat products. …”
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A mutual mapping model of cross-sections between the axial and normal planes of ball screws based on the forming of helical ball track by Chaoqun Qian, Yi Ou, Hutian Feng, Jian Wu

“…The method simplifies the complex interaction within ball screws, offering a comprehensive model for better understanding and application. …”
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Decoupled Classifier Knowledge Distillation. by Hairui Wang, Mengjie Dong, Guifu Zhu, Ya Li

“…Compared to using a single method, DCKD achieves superior results on both the CIFAR-100 and ImageNet datasets for image classification and object detection tasks, without reducing training efficiency. …”
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An MCMC Approach to Bayesian Image Analysis in Fourier Space by Konstantinos Bakas, John Kornak, Hernando Ombao

“…Bayesian image analysis methods are commonly applied to solve image analysis problems such as noise reduction, feature enhancement, and object detection. A primary limitation of these methods is their computational cost due to the complex joint interdependencies between pixels, which limits the efficiency of performing posterior sampling through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). …”
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SGF-SLAM: Semantic Gaussian Filtering SLAM for Urban Road Environments by Zhongliang Deng, Runmin Wang

“…This framework effectively suppresses dynamic objects by integrating feature point detection and semantic segmentation networks, filtering out Gaussian point clouds that degrade mapping quality, thus enhancing system performance in complex outdoor scenarios. …”
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A Multitask CNN for Near-Infrared Probe: Enhanced Real-Time Breast Cancer Imaging by Maryam Momtahen, Farid Golnaraghi

“…This multitasking approach leverages the robust feature extraction capabilities of CNNs to perform complex tasks simultaneously, thereby improving the model’s efficiency and accuracy. …”
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From Image to Sequence: Exploring Vision Transformers for Optical Coherence Tomography Classification by Amirali Arbab, Aref Habibi, Hossein Rabbani, Mahnoosh Tajmirriahi

“…Results: While our model achieves an accuracy of 99.80% on the OCT2017 dataset, its standout feature is its parameter efficiency–requiring only 6.9 million parameters, significantly fewer than larger, more complex models such as Xception and OpticNet-71. …”
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A Review of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Predicting Faults in Electrical Machines by Mathew Habyarimana, Abayomi A. Adebiyi

“…The operational efficiency of many industrial processes is greatly affected by condition monitoring, which has become more and more important in the detection and forecast of electrical machine failures. …”
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A Collaborative Auto-Diversified Optimization Scheme  by Besma Hezili, Hichem Talbi

“…For re-diversification, CADOS utilizes both CMA-ES, known for its efficiency in complex fitness landscapes, and the Auto-Enhanced Population Diversity (AEPD) technique. …”
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RESOLVING POWER OF MODIFIED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD IN SPIN DENSITY PROJECTIONS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING by S. A. Baruzdin

“…For their calculation, the stepped approximation of the excitation pulse complex envelopes is used. It makes possible to convert the system of linear differential equations with variable coefficients (Bloch equations) to the system of linear differential equations with piecewise constant coefficients. …”
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A systematic review of multi-mode analytics for enhanced plant stress evaluation by Abdolrahim Zandi, Seyedali Hosseinirad, Hossein Kashani Zadeh, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Byoung-Kwan Cho, Fartash Vasefi, Moon S. Kim, Pantea Tavakolian, Pantea Tavakolian

“…IntroductionDetecting plant stress is a critical challenge in agriculture, where early intervention is essential to enhance crop resilience and maximize yield. …”
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Algorithm for Processing X-ray Images Using Fuzzy Logic by A. S. Mannaa

“…In addition, the new method makes it possible to understand complex cases when several factors are combined, indicating potential pathology. …”
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An Analog Sensor Signal Processing Method Susceptible to Anthropogenic Noise Based on Improved Adaptive Singular Spectrum Analysis by Zhengyang Gao, Shuangchao Ge, Jie Li, Wentao Huang, Kaiqiang Feng, Chenming Zhang, Chunxing Zhang, Jiaxin Sun

“…ASSA addresses the challenge of determining the optimal number of decomposition layers, eliminating the parameter adjusting process and enhancing the measurement efficiency of sensor systems. Through experiments, magnetotelluric (MT) observation data with complex interferences were applied to demonstrate the performance of ASSA, and promising results with an RMSE of 0.2 were obtained. …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…However, overall improvements are modest: the model achieves Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) scores of 0.63, 0.64, and 0.65 on AIMI, TN3K, and DDTI, respectively, highlighting limitations under small-sample conditions. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SULPIRIDE TOXICITY AT DIFFERENT FORMS OF ITS INTAKE INTO THE BODY by Лариса Геннадьевна Горохова, Татьяна Георгиевна Корсакова, Татьяна Дмитриевна Логунова

“…The study medication had a marked ability to cumulation, the cumulation coefficient was 2.9. No immunotoxic, mutagenic and embryotoxic action was detected in sulpiride. …”
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Location Research and Picking Experiment of an Apple-Picking Robot Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Binocular Vision by Tianzhong Fang, Wei Chen, Lu Han

“…As their “perceptual core,” machine vision systems directly determine picking success rates and operational efficiency. However, existing vision systems still exhibit significant shortcomings in target detection and positioning accuracy in complex orchard environments (e.g., uneven illumination, foliage occlusion, and fruit overlap), which hinders practical applications. …”
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How to Count Parrots: Comparing the Performance of Point and Transect Counts for Surveying Tasman Parakeets (<i>Cyanoramphus cookii</i>) by Michael John Adam Skirrow, Luis Ortiz-Catedral, Adam N. H. Smith

“…The fixed-point method was also more efficient, yielding 1.338 parakeet detections per count compared to the 0.642 parakeet detections per count obtained by the line transect method. …”
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