Determinants of compliance to the facemask directive in Greece: A population study. by Georgios Labiris, Eirini-Kanella Panagiotopoulou, Asli Perente, Eleftherios Chatzimichael, Ioannis Fotiadis, Sergios Taliantzis, Aristeidis Konstantinidis, Doukas Dardabounis

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This is a prospective study that was conducted at the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece between June 2020 and August 2020. …”
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A novel image recommendation model based on user preferences and social relationships by Weiyi Wei, Jian Wang, Jingyu Li, Mengyu Xu

“…In the higher-order collaboration module, a recursive interest propagation strategy is used to aggregate user preferences and image visual information. The experimental results clearly show that the model has an improvement of about 8.82% and 7.25% on Recall@20 and NDCG@20 compared to the latest methods.…”
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SMF-net: semantic-guided multimodal fusion network for precise pancreatic tumor segmentation in medical CT image by Wenyi Zhou, Ziyang Shi, Bin Xie, Fang Li, Jiehao Yin, Yongzhong Zhang, Linan Hu, Lin Li, Yongming Yan, Xiajun Wei, Zhen Hu, Zhengmao Luo, Wanxiang Peng, Xiaochun Xie, Xiaoli Long

“…However, two key challenges persist: (a) complex phenotypic variations in pancreatic morphology cause segmentation models to focus predominantly on healthy tissue over tumors, compromising tumor feature extraction and segmentation accuracy; (b) existing methods often struggle to retain fine-grained local features, leading to performance degradation in pancreas-tumor segmentation.MethodsTo overcome these limitations, we propose SMF-Net (Semantic-Guided Multimodal Fusion Network), a novel multimodal medical image segmentation framework integrating a CNN-Transformer hybrid encoder. …”
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Mucopolysaccharidosis in children as seen through the eyes of an ophthalmologist by Mirosława Grałek, Anna Niwald, Katarzyna Piasecka

“…Ophthalmological treatment comprises correction of refractive errors and other conservative and surgical methods aimed to improve the ocular condition.…”
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Chladni patterns explained by the space-dependent diffusion of bouncing grains by Anaïs Abramian, Suzie Protière, Arnaud Lazarus, Olivier Devauchelle

“…These findings could inspire new methods to manipulate and segregate particles.…”
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SVMFN-FSAR: Semantic-Guided Video Multimodal Fusion Network for Few-Shot Action Recognition by Ran Wei, Rui Yan, Hongyu Qu, Xing Li, Qiaolin Ye, Liyong Fu

“…Experimental results on three few-shot benchmarks, Kinetics, UCF101, and HMDB51, consistently demonstrate the effectiveness and interpretability of the proposed method.…”
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Measurement of shallow anterior chamber depth using Lenstar and ultrasound biomicroscopy by Yue Ying, Rui-Ling Zhao, Ya-Nan Sun, Qi-Lian Sheng, Ye Lin Kwan, Xiang-Mei Kong

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Weakly supervised learning in thymoma histopathology classification: an interpretable approach by Chunbao Wang, Chunbao Wang, Xianglong Du, Xiaoyu Yan, Xiali Teng, Xiaolin Wang, Zhe Yang, Hongyun Chang, Yangyang Fan, Caihong Ran, Jie Lian, Chen Li, Hansheng Li, Lei Cui, Yina Jiang

“…Accurate classification is crucial for diagnosis, but current methods often struggle with complex tumor subtypes. …”
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Сlinical, functional and morphological results of diabetic macular edema antiangiogenic treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type two by L. K. Moshetova, I. V. Vorobieva, E. V. Parfenova, D. A. Merkushenkova, P. I. Makarevich, V. I. Alekhnovich

“…Purpose: To evaluate of retinal morphology and function progress in patients with diabetes type 2 and DME consistent with the level of pathogenetic factor in tear fluid.Methods: The progress of visual acuity, retinal thickness and photosensitivity after ranibizumab intravitreal injection has been assessed.Results: Statistically significant increase in visual acuity, retinal photosensitivity, decrease of retinal thickness and VEGF A level was found in the tear fluid after injection. …”
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Is AI the future of evaluation in medical education?? AI vs. human evaluation in objective structured clinical examination by Murat Tekin, Mustafa Onur Yurdal, Çetin Toraman, Güneş Korkmaz, İbrahim Uysal

“…Consistency among evaluators was analyzed using statistical methods. Results AI models consistently assigned higher scores than human evaluators across all skills. …”
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Disintegration of commercial biodegradable plastic products under simulated industrial composting conditions by Sevil V. Afshar, Alessio Boldrin, Thomas H. Christensen, Fabiana Corami, Anders E. Daugaard, Beatrice Rosso, Nanna B. Hartmann

“…Considering the limitations of visual MP observation without pretreatment, future research should prioritize the development of methods for extracting biodegradable MPs from complex matrices like compost. …”
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Opportunities for Telemedicine to Improve Parents’ Well-Being During the Neonatal Care Journey: Scoping Review by Josephine Wagenaar, Crystal Mah, Fredrik Bodell, Irwin Reiss, Maaike Kleinsmann, Sylvia Obermann-Borst, H Rob Taal

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to identify telemedicine interventions with the potential to improve parents’ well-being and to present the methods used to measure their experience. …”
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Defining Seropositivity Thresholds for Use in Trachoma Elimination Studies. by Stephanie J Migchelsen, Diana L Martin, Khamphoua Southisombath, Patrick Turyaguma, Anne Heggen, Peter Paul Rubangakene, Hassan Joof, Pateh Makalo, Gretchen Cooley, Sarah Gwyn, Anthony W Solomon, Martin J Holland, Paul Courtright, Rebecca Willis, Neal D E Alexander, David C W Mabey, Chrissy H Roberts

“…Thresholds defined using internal reference threshold methods did not vary substantially between population samples.…”
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Diagnostic Possibilities of Optical Coherent Tomography of the Retina during Compression in the Chiasm-Sellar Region by N. A. Gavrilova, E. E. Ioyleva, N. S. Gadzhieva, O. E. Tishchenko, N. Y. Kutrovskaya, A. V. Kuz’mina, A. V. Zinov’eva

“…Today optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the retina is one of the most informative methods for diagnosing pathology of the retina and optic nerve. …”
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Scleritis following Pterygium Surgery with Mitomycin C or Beta Irradiation: Three-Case Report by Winai Chaidaroon, Somsanguan Ausayakhun, Napaporn Tananuvat, Phit Upaphong, Kittipong Thabsuwan

“…To report three cases of culture-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa scleritis following pterygium surgery. Patients and Methods. A retrospective study of all patients of Pseudomonas aeruginosa scleritis after pterygium surgery presented from May 2017 to May 2020 was performed. …”
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Induced pluripotent stem cells and derivative photoreceptor precursors as therapeutic cells for retinal degenerations by Rupendra Shrestha, Yao-Tseng Wen, Rong-Kung Tsai

“…The visual impairment associated with inherited retinal degeneration and age-related degeneration of photoreceptors is causing substantial challenges in finding effective therapies. …”
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Surgical removal of subretinal cysticercosis in conjunction with administration of intravenous methylprednisolone: A case report by Amrit Banstola, Sachin Iyer, Amir Akhavanrezayat, Tanya Jain, Muna Kharel, Ankur Sudhir Gupta, Jia-Horung Hung, Woong-Sun Yoo, Quan Dong Nguyen, Anadi Khatri

“…We present a case of subretinal cysticercosis that was managed with a novel method of intravenous methylprednisolone administration before and after it was surgically removed. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography in Identifying both Typical and Unusual Variations of Intrahepatic Bile Ducts: A Pictorial Review by Sanyukta Gupta, Vineet Mishra, Swati Purohit Joshi, Paresh Kumar Sukhani, Jai Chowdhary, Yashveer Arya

“…MRCP serves as a non invasive imaging method to visualise biliary duct morphology, reducing the risk of iatrogenic injuries during hepatobiliary procedures and surgery.…”
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DCAT: A Novel Transformer-Based Approach for Dynamic Context-Aware Image Captioning in the Tamil Language by Jothi Prakash Venugopal, Arul Antran Vijay Subramanian, Manikandan Murugan, Gopikrishnan Sundaram, Marco Rivera, Patrick Wheeler

“…The DCAT model, tailored for Tamil, innovatively employs dynamic attention mechanisms during its Initialization, Training, and Inference phases to focus on pertinent visual and textual elements. Our method distinctively leverages the nuances of Tamil syntax and semantics, a novelty in the realm of low-resource language image captioning. …”
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Strategies and Challenges for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Continuous Inspection and Predictive Maintenance of Solar Modules by Ghulam E. Mustafa Abro, Amjad Ali, Sufyan Ali Memon, Tayab Din Memon, Faheem Khan

“…This study advocates for the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) outfitted with thermal imagers and visible-light cameras as an efficient method for identifying flaws in solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. …”
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