Entropy-Driven Dynamic Block Compressive Sampling for Underwater Image Compression in the Context of IoUT: A Research Perspective by R. Monika, Samiappan Dhanalakshmi, R. Narayanamoorthi, Hossam Kotb, Amr Yousef

“…The suggested method has outperformed existing techniques, yielding superior results.…”
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Efficacy of pain management for cattle castration: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Emeline Nogues, Jane Stojkov, Biljana Jonoska Stojkova, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk, Daniel M. Weary

“…Much research has assessed methods of pain control for cattle castration, but there remains a lack of consensus regarding best practice. …”
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Being nomadic and overseas rappers by Siyuan Ren, Carles Feixa

“…This research aims to explore the function of intercultural communication of Chinese Rap music and the construction of hybrid identity, through discourse analysis methods: Narrative Semiotics, visual semiology, and sociolinguistics of globalization. …”
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OCT RNFL and Macular GCC by Nisha Chaudhary, Neha Sachdeva, Umesh Sharma

“…Optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal nerve fibre layer and macular ganglion cell complex in glaucoma are non contact, rapid and reliable methods to detect both pre perimetric glaucoma and its progression.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of Structural Brain MRI in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Jason Appel, Elizabeth Potter, Qian Shen, Gustavo Pantol, Maria T. Greig, David Loewenstein, Ranjan Duara

“…Multiple neuroimaging methods utilizing visual rating scales, volumetric measurements, and automated methods have been developed to identify, quantify, and track anatomic sequelae of Alzheimer’s Disease.…”
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Nonlinear multi-head cross-attention network and programmable gradient information for gaze estimation by Yujie Li, Yuhang Hong, Ziwen Wang, Jiahui Chen, Rongjie Liu, Shuxue Ding, Benying Tan

“…Recent gaze estimation methods are primarily based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or attention Transformers. …”
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IQA Vision Transformed: A Survey of Transformer Architectures in Perceptual Image Quality Assessment by Mobeen Ur Rehman, Imran Fareed Nizami, Farman Ullah, Irfan Hussain

“…This survey paper reviews the integration of Vision Transformers (ViTs) into both no-reference (NR) and full-reference (FR) IQA methods, highlighting their promise as alternatives to traditional techniques. …”
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ACT-SR: Aggregation Connection Transformer for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution by Yingdong Kang, Xinyu Wang, Xuemin Zhang, Shaoju Wang, Guang Jin

“…Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed modules, with ACT-SR outperforming several state-of-the-art RSISR methods in both objective metrics and visual quality.…”
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Glaucoma secondary to intraocular tumors key aspects of etiopathogenesis by A.A. Yarovoy, T.V. Sokolovskaya, E.O. Krasnova, A.D. Matyaeva

“…To analyze the literature on the main aspects of etiology, pathogenesis of secondary glaucoma in tumor diseases of visual organs. Material and methods. PubMed, Scopus and eLIBRARY databases for the period up to 2022 were used for article selection, and the following keywords were used in the mesh: secondary glaucoma, tumor, neovascularization, pigment dispersion (and the same phrases in Russian). …”
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Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy in the Management of Diffuse Choroidal Hemangioma in Sturge-Weber Syndrome by Saeed Karimi, Sadra Ashrafi, Zahra Siavashpour, Mona Malekzadeh Moghani

“… Purpose: This study aimed to report the efficiency and safety of using intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in treating diffuse choroidal hemangioma (DCH) in patients with Sturge- Weber syndrome (SWS). Methods: IMRT planning was carried out for each case after patient fixation, CT simulation, and target delineation. …”
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Despeckle Filtering for Multiscale Amplitude-Modulation Frequency-Modulation (AM-FM) Texture Analysis of Ultrasound Images of the Intima-Media Complex by C. P. Loizou, V. Murray, M. S. Pattichis, M. Pantziaris, A. N. Nicolaides, C. S. Pattichis

“…In this study, we perform a comparative evaluation of several despeckle filtering methods, on 100 ultrasound images of the CCA, based on the extracted multiscale Amplitude-Modulation Frequency-Modulation (AM-FM) texture features and visual image quality assessment by two clinical experts. …”
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Inverse power XLindley distribution with statistical inference and applications to engineering data by Amal S. Hassan, Najwan Alsadat, Christophe Chesneau, Mohammed Elgarhy, Mohamed Kayid, Suleman Nasiru, Ahmed M. Gemeay

“…In particular, the parameters are determined using twelve efficient estimation methods. These methods are maximum likelihood, Anderson-Darling, right-tailed Anderson-Darling, left-tailed Anderson-Darling, Cramér-von Mises, least squares, weighted least squares, maximum product of spacing, minimum spacing absolute distance, minimum spacing absolute-log distance, percentiles, and Kolmogorov. …”
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Methanol-induced bilateral optic neuropathy by Joseph M. Ranche, MD, Raul D. Cruz, MD, Froilan P. Inocencio, MD

“…Objective: To emphasize the importance of diagnosing cases of methanol toxicity, demonstrate the value of electrophysiologic testing as an adjunct in the diagnosis, and provide a framework for intervention. Methods: This is a case report. Results: The patient’s visual-evoked-response tracing showed failure of transmission while electroretinogram waveforms were normal. …”
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Why Teach Alternative Dispute Resolution to Law Students? Part One: Past and Current Practices and Some Unanswered Questions by Judy Gutman, Tom Fisher, Erika Martens

“…The article describes some student-centred activities that are informed by visual pedagogy. Approaching the teaching of criminal law from the visual pedagogy perspective helps students develop media literacy, which enables a level of interactivity and critical thinking not achieved with traditional teaching methods.…”
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Congenital cataract. Report 2. Current strategies of congenital cataract management in children: a review by N. Ya. Senchenko, K. A. Nagaeva, E. K. Ayuyeva1, T. N. Iureva

“…Current techniques of aphakia correction, their advantages and disadvantages as well as pleoptic methods of visual system stimulation are discussed…”
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FireCLIP: Enhancing Forest Fire Detection with Multimodal Prompt Tuning and Vision-Language Understanding by Shanjunxia Wu, Yuming Qiao, Sen He, Jiahao Zhou, Zhi Wang, Xin Li, Fei Wang

“…Additionally, our method incorporates a prompt tuning strategy which helps to improve performance by at least 12.45% in zero-shot learning tasks and also enhances performance in few-shot learning tasks, demonstrating enhanced regional generalization compared to baselines.…”
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Pixel Interaction Model for Contrast Enhancement: Bridging Social Science and Image Processing by Beatriz A. Rivera-Aguilar, Erik Cuevas, Alberto Luque-Chang, Jesús López, Marco Pérez-Cisneros

“…This process increases the contrast in regions with significant differences and reduces variation in uniform regions, hence enhancing clarity in the visual information and details of the image. The effectiveness and high performance of the proposed method are evaluated by a variety of experiments conducted on different image datasets using different quality indexes. …”
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Optimal Control Approach of Discrete Mathematical Modeling of the Spread of Gaming Disorder in Morocco and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis by Driss Kada, Bouchaib Khajji, Omar Balatif, Mostafa Rachik, El Houssine Labriji

“…To characterize optimal controls, we use Pontryagin’s maximum principle and the system of optimality solved by an iterative method. Finally, numerical simulations are presented with and without controls. …”
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Quantification of neuroinflammation in spinal cord and neuroforamina of patients with painful cervical radiculopathy using [11C]DPA713 PET/CT by Ivo J. Lutke Schipholt, Ivo J. Lutke Schipholt, Gwendolyne G. M. Scholten-Peeters, Meghan A. Koop, Michel W. Coppieters, Michel W. Coppieters, Ronald Boellaard, Elsmarieke van de Giessen, Elsmarieke van de Giessen, Bastiaan C. ter Meulen, Bastiaan C. ter Meulen, Marieke Coenen, Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp, Paul R. Depaauw, Bart N. M. van Berckel, Adriaan A. Lammerstma, Adriaan A. Lammerstma, Maqsood Yaqub

“…The objectives of this study were to: (1) assess which tracer kinetic model most optimally quantified [11C]DPA713 uptake in the spinal cord and neuroforamina in patients with painful cervical radiculopathy, (2) evaluate the performance of linearized methods (e.g., Logan) and simplified (e.g., standardized uptake value - SUV) methods, and (3) assess the test-retest reliability of these methods. …”
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VG-CGARN: Video Generation Using Convolutional Generative Adversarial and Recurrent Networks by Fatemeh Sobhani Manesh, Amin Nazari, Muharram Mansoorizadeh, MirHossein Dezfoulian

“…CNNs extract spatial features, LSTMs model temporal dynamics, and GANs enhance visual realism through adversarial training. Experimental results on the KTH dataset, comprising 600 videos of fundamental human actions, demonstrate that the proposed method achieves substantial improvements over baseline models, reaching a peak PSNR of 35.8 and SSIM of 0.96—representing a 20% performance gain. …”
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