View Score: An early warning score to detect possible complications among COVID-19 patients by Meenakshi Bhakare, Rajkumar Nikalje, Reshma Patil, Urvi Shukla, Rupesh Bokade, Gajanan Sakhare, Shardul Joshi, Aditi Pais

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Effect of Droplet Contamination on Camera Lens Surfaces: Degradation of Image Quality and Object Detection Performance by Hyunwoo Kim, Yoseph Yang, Youngkwang Kim, Dong-Won Jang, Dongil Choi, Kang Park, Sangkug Chung, Daegeun Kim

“…The findings reveal that droplet contamination can reduce the detection performance of small objects by up to 90%, as measured by the mean average precision (mAP) metric. …”
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A Heterogeneity-Aware Semi-Decentralized Model for a Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for IoT Networks Based on Federated Learning and BiLSTM by Shuroog Alsaleh, Mohamed El Bachir Menai, Saad Al-Ahmadi

“…., memory capacity, processing power, and energy consumption) to function as conventional intrusion detection systems (IDSs). …”
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<i>DSW-YOLO</i>-Based Green Pepper Detection Method Under Complex Environments by Yukuan Han, Gaifeng Ren, Jiarui Zhang, Yuxin Du, Guoqiang Bao, Lijun Cheng, Hongwen Yan

“…The <i>CIOU</i> function was replaced with <i>WIOUv3</i> to accelerate convergence, decrease loss, and significantly enhance detection performance. …”
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A Dynamic Interference Detection Method of Underwater Scenes Based on Deep Learning and Attention Mechanism by Shuo Shang, Jianrong Cao, Yuanchang Wang, Ming Wang, Qianchuan Zhao, Yuanyuan Song, He Gao

“…This paper uses the YOLOv8 network as the basis of the algorithm and proposes an underwater dynamic target detection algorithm based on improved YOLOv8. This algorithm first improves the feature extraction layer of the YOLOv8 network, improves the convolutional network structure of Bottleneck, reduces the amount of calculation and improves detection accuracy. …”
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Detection of reproductive and hematobiochemical biomarkers to evaluate the impact of heavy metal exposure on brick kiln workers by Kibria Hassan, Muhammad Kashif Khan, Mehwish David, Sarwat Jahan, Tayyaba Afsar, Fohad Mabood Husain, Huma Shafique, Suhail Razak

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Structural and functional assessment of TBX20 gene variants in pediatric ventricular septal defect by Zhenzhen Qin, Caixia Liu, Jie Wang, Yanmei Jin

“…Structural modeling predicted that the p.Gly193Ser substitution destabilized the TBX20 protein by altering its conformation and increasing its potential energy state. Functional assays demonstrated that this variant reduced TBX20 mRNA expression and significantly attenuated transactivation of the downstream target gene ANF. …”
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Certificateless Batch Authentication Scheme and Intrusion Detection Model Based on the Mobile Edge Computing Technology NDN-IoT Environment by Jianzhao Sun

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Enhancing Real-Time Road Object Detection: The RD-YOLO Algorithm With Higher Precision and Efficiency by Weijian Wang, Wei Yu

“…This integration improves the model&#x2019;s feature extraction capabilities while reducing the number of parameters. Second, we design a high-resolution detection branch to enhance the accuracy of small-scale object detection. …”
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Automated Fovea Detection in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Scans of Exudative Macular Disease by Jing Wu, Sebastian M. Waldstein, Alessio Montuoro, Bianca S. Gerendas, Georg Langs, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

“…In macular spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) volumes, detection of the foveal center is required for accurate and reproducible follow-up studies, structure function correlation, and measurement grid positioning. …”
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YOLOv7scb: A Small-Target Object Detection Method for Fire Smoke Inspection by Dan Shao, Yu Liu, Guoxing Liu, Ning Wang, Pu Chen, Jiaxun Yu, Guangmin Liang

“…We also replace the conventional complete intersection over union (CIoU) loss function with Focal-CIoU, which reduces the degrees of freedom in the loss function and improves the model’s robustness. …”
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Arbitrarily Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Improved YOLOv4-CSP by Ziyang Zheng, Ting Zhang, Zhaoying Liu, Bo Liu, Yujian Li, Changming Sun

“…At present, most of the algorithms are dedicated to improving the detection accuracy, while ignoring the detection speed. …”
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Lightweight deep neural network for contour detection and extraction of wheat spikes in complex field environments by Xin Xu, Haiyang Zhang, Jiangchuan Lu, Ziyi Guo, Juanjuan Zhang, Jibo Yue, Hongbo Qiao, Xinming Ma

“…Ablation studies confirm LDSNet-ELA integration reduces false positives by 27.6%, while the enhanced loss function system improves small-object recall by 19.4%. …”
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The paradox of hnRNPK: both absence and excess impair skeletal muscle function in mice by Yongjie Xu, Yuxi Wang, Xiaofang Cheng, Mengjia Zhang, Nuo Chen, Jiahua Guo, Yueru Huang, Quanxi Li, Tianyu Li, Tiantian Meng, Cencen Li, Pengpeng Zhang, Haixia Xu

“…In adult mice, both the loss and gain of hnRNPK function led to reduced muscle mass, decreased fiber size, and compromised skeletal muscle homeostasis. …”
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Small Target Detection Algorithm for UAV Aerial Images Based on Improved YOLOv7-tiny by ZHANG Guanghua, LI Congfa, LI Gangying, LU Weidang

“…Removing the fourth small target detection head results in the most obvious performance degradation, reducing detection accuracy by 2.4%. 3) Comparative experiments are conducted to verify the comprehensive performance of the improved algorithm. …”
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An Energy-Efficient Cluster-Based Vehicle Detection on Road Network Using Intention Numeration Method by Deepa Devasenapathy, Kathiravan Kannan

“…Initially, sensor nodes that detect a vehicle are grouped into separate clusters. …”
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Cooperation Spectrum Sensing Detecting Algorithm Based on Featured Belief Points in Cognitive Radio Network by Hongyan Zheng, Bo Wu, Yanpeng Feng, Xianjun Meng

“…Firstly，this algorithm desployed the single cognitive user energy detection and feature detection co11aborative detection mode instead of multiple cognitive user cooperative detection，reducing communication overhead. …”
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YOLO11m-SCFPose: An Improved Detection Framework for Keypoint Extraction in Cucumber Fruit Phenotyping by Huijiao Yu, Xuehui Zhang, Jun Yan, Xianyong Meng

“…The Focaler-IoU loss function is employed to improve keypoint localization accuracy. …”
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CSW-YOLO: A traffic sign small target detection algorithm based on YOLOv8. by Qian Shen, Yi Li, YuXiang Zhang, Lei Zhang, ShiHao Liu, Jinhua Wu

“…First, the bottleneck of the C2f module in the original yolov8 network is replaced with the residual Faster-Block module in FasterNet, and then the new channel mixer convolution GLU (CGLU) in TransNeXt is combined with it to construct the C2f-faster-CGLU module, reducing the number of model parameters and computational load; Secondly, the SPPF module is combined with the large separable kernel attention (LSKA) to construct the SPPF-LSKA module, which greatly enhances the feature extraction ability of the model; Then, by adding a small target detection layer, the accuracy of small target detection such as traffic signs is greatly improved; Finally, the Inner-IoU and MPDIoU loss functions are integrated to construct WISE-Inner-MPDIoU, which replaces the original CIoU loss function, thereby improving the calculation accuracy. …”
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Correlation between computed tomography findings and liver function parameters in chronic liver disease by Moeen ud din Khan Khalil, Syed Kazim Shah Bukhari, Syed Murtaza Shah Bukhari, Mian Zia Shah, Mian Raza Shah

“…The severity of ascites correlated positively (r=0.70, p=0.008) with serum bilirubin levels and INR (r=0.60, p=0.010), indicating worsening of hepatic function. Splenomegaly was significantly correlated with reduced platelet counts (r = –0.75, p< 0.001).  …”
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