Clinical features of patients presenting with fever of unknown origin caused by non-tuberculous mycobacterium infection by Huiting Liu, Ting Zhang, Yu Wang, Hongwei Fan, Xiaoming Huang, Yang Jiao

“…Specimens submitted for pathogenic identification were processed by mycobacterial culture, acid-fast staining, and mycobacterial nucleic acid detection. IBM SPSS Statistics v22.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used for data analysis. …”
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Application of a Texture Appearance Model for Segmentation of Lung Nodules on Computed Tomography of the Chest by F. Shariaty, V. A. Pavlov, S. V. Zavjalov, M. Orooji, T. M. Pervunina

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Flower Automata Pattern-Based Discrimination of Fibromyalgia From Control Subjects Using Fusion of Sleep EEG and ECG Signals by Prabal Datta Barua, Makiko Kobayashi, Sengul Dogan, Mehmet Baygin, Turker Tuncer, Jose Kunnel Paul, Thomas Iype, U. R. Acharya

“…Three feature selection strategies—Neighborhood Component Analysis (NCA), Chi2, and the intersection of NCA and Chi2 (NCA^Chi2) — are employed to generate robust feature vectors, which are classified using k-nearest neighbors (kNN) and support vector machine (SVM) under the leave-one-record-out cross-validation (LORO CV) scheme. …”
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Classification of Retinoblastoma Eye Disease on Digital Fundus Images Using Geometric Features and Machine Learning by Arif Setiawan

“…Medical image analysis is essential for detecting retinoblastoma tumors due to the ability of this method to assist doctors in examining the morphology, density, and distribution of blood vessels. …”
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Clinical and genetic characteristics of new allele variants of the Mowat–Wilson syndrome caused by ZEB2 gene mutations by I. A. Akimova, T. V. Markova, F. A. Konovalov, A. V. Antonets, E. L. Dadali

“…To date, a large number of monogenic diseases and syndromes, in the clinical picture of which there are convulsions, a psycho-speech development delay and dysmorphic features have been described. One of the hereditary syndromes with a specific phenotype is the Movat–Wilson syndrome. …”
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A Review of Facial Thermography Assessment for Vital Signs Estimation by Syaidatus Syahira Ahmad Tarmizi, Nor Surayahani Suriani, Fadilla 'Atyka Nor Rashid

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Influence of Host and Landscape‐Associated Factors in the Infection and Transmission of Pathogens: The Case of Directly Transmitted Virus in Mammals by María del Carmen Villalobos‐Segura, Oscar Rico‐Chávez, Gerardo Suzán, Andrea Chaves

“…However, studies show biases toward certain locations, hosts and detected pathogens, with regional variations in similar host–virus associations. …”
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Digital biomechanical assessment of gait in patients with peripheral neuropathies by Clara Tejada-Illa, Jordi Pegueroles, Mireia Claramunt-Molet, Ariadna Pi-Cervera, Ainhoa Heras-Delgado, Jesus Gascón-Fontal, Sebastian Idelsohn-Zielonka, Mari Rico, Nuria Vidal, Lorena Martín-Aguilar, Marta Caballero-Ávila, Cinta Lleixà, Roger Collet-Vidiella, Laura Llansó, Álvaro Carbayo, Ana Vesperinas, Luis Querol, Elba Pascual-Goñi

“…Finally, we demonstrated that this technology is able to capture clinically significant changes in gait features over time. Conclusions Our study provides proof-of-concept that wearable technology effectively detects and grades gait impairment, captures clinically relevant changes, and could enhance gait assessment in routine care and clinical research for patients with PN.…”
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Prediction of Early Diagnosis in Ovarian Cancer Patients Using Machine Learning Approaches with Boruta and Advanced Feature Selection by Tuğçe Öznacar, Tunç Güler

“…This research aims to assess the feature extraction process from various machine learning techniques for better modelling of ovarian cancer and the selection process in ovarian cancer analysis. …”
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Exploring the role of Epstein-Barr virus infection on the clinical features and survival in locally advanced cervical cancer: a retrospective cohort study by Denisse Castro-Uriol, Denisse Castro-Uriol, Juana Vera, Bryan Valcarcel, Marco López-Ilasaca, Alejandro Yabar, Anaís Cámara, Luis Malpica, Brady Beltrán, Brady Beltrán

“…Real-time Polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to detect EBNA-1 (Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1) and LMP-1 (Latent membrane protein 1). …”
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Features of autonomic regulation of heart rate, central hemodynamics and physical performance in Short-distance runners by E. L. Mikhalyuk, M. V. Didenko, S. M. Malakhova

“…The data of ECG studies demonstrate some features of short-distance runners, most of which is normalized after tests with dosed physical load. 2. …”
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Genome mining approach reveals the CRISPR-Cas systems features and characteristics in Lactobacillus delbrueckii strains by Bahman Panahi, Mohaddeseh Rostampour, Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, Yousef Nami

“…Homology analysis of spacer sequences in detected CRISPR arrays was conducted to assess the variety of target phages and plasmids. …”
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FEATURES OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND TOOTH DECAY MORBIDITY IN CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN ENVIRONMENTALLY ADVERSE CONDITIONS by L.S. Lagoda, H.G. Musji-Sementsiv, T.Y Lisak

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Design Features of Antenna Arrays of Automotive Radars Based on Transmitting and Receiving Multi-Element Modules by A. A. Kuzin, A. V. Miakinkov, S. A. Shabalin

“…Modern vehicles are equipped with radars, which serve as the main sensors of driver assistance systems detecting objects in all weather conditions. Antenna arrays (AA) are the most common type of radar antennas. …”
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Aerial Biological Target Classification Based on Time–Frequency Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network by Lianjun Wang, Rui Wang, Weidong Li, Jiangtao Wang, Yujia Yan, Cheng Hu

“…The analysis revealed that radar cross section (RCS) features are insufficient to support insect and bird classification tasks, as aerial biological targets may be detected in radar sidelobes, leading to uncertainty in RCS values. …”
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Quasiperiodic Oscillations and Reflection Feature Evolution in 4U 1630-47 Observed with Insight-HXMT by Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang

“…The main science aims to study the reflection features and evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). …”
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Parametric and nonparametric two-sample tests for feature screening in class comparison: a simulation study by Elena Landoni, Federico Ambrogi, Luigi Mariani, Rosalba Miceli

“…The identification of a location-, scale- and shape-sensitive test to detect differentially expressed features between two comparison groups represents a key point in high dimensional studies. …”
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Etiological role and molecular-genetic features of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> in children’s infectious diseases by I. N. Protasova, G. P. Martynova, N. A. Ilyenkova, I. A. Kutischeva, S. V. Domracheva, O. P. Ovchinnikova, E. S. Sokolovskaya

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LRU-Net: lightweight and multiscale feature extraction for localization of ACL tears region in MRI images by Xiaojun Si, Liang Yan, Cui Shi, Yang Xu

“…Furthermore, it employs a dynamic feature extraction module for adaptive multiscale feature extraction. …”
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FEATURES OF THE RESPONSE OF ARTERIAL BLOOD FLOW TO THE ORTHOSTATIC LOAD IN YOUNG WOMEN WITH IDIOPATHIC ARTERIAL HYPOTENSION by T. Y. Agafonova, V. M. Baev, O. A. Samsonova, R. S. Dusakova

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