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This study investigates how Vision Language Models (VLMs) can be used and methodically configured to extract Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics from corporate sustainability reports, addressing the limitations of existing text-only a...

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The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in decision-making processes has amplified discussions surrounding algorithmic authority—the perceived epistemic legitimacy of AI systems over human judgment. This study investigates ho...

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Migraine and epilepsy are common neurological disorders that share overlapping symptoms, such as visual disturbances and altered consciousness, making accurate diagnosis challenging. Although their underlying mechanisms differ, both conditions involv...

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AuraViT-FL: A Resource-Efficient 2D Hybrid Transformer Framework for Federated Lung Tumor Segmentation

  • Mohamed A. Abdelhamed,
  • Hana M. Nassef,
  • Sara Abdelnasser,
  • Sahar Selim and
  • Lobna A. Said

Accurate lung tumor segmentation using computed tomography (CT) scans is needed for efficient tumor treatment. However, the development of deep learning models is often constrained by strict patient privacy regulations that limit direct data sharing....

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In an e-learning platform, information retrieval plays an enormous role through efficient processing. Recently, the education sector has increased its trend in online learning systems by generating a large amount of educational content based on stude...

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Manifold Integration of Lung Emphysema Signatures (MILES): A Radiomic-Based Study

  • Marek Socha,
  • Agata Durawa,
  • Małgorzata Jelito,
  • Katarzyna Dziadziuszko,
  • Witold Rzyman,
  • Edyta Szurowska and
  • Joanna Polanska

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide, and emphysema is present in the majority of affected patients and can be identified on computed tomography (CT). This study investigated whether radiomic feat...

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Attention-Driven Feature Extraction for XAI in Histopathology Leveraging a Hybrid Xception Architecture for Multi-Cancer Diagnosis

  • Shirin Shila,
  • Md. Safayat Hossain,
  • Md Fuyad Al Masud,
  • Mohammad Badrul Alam Miah,
  • Afrig Aminuddin and
  • Zia Muhammad

The automated and accurate results of classifying histopathology images are necessary in the early detection of cancer, especially the common cancers such as Colorectal Cancer (CRC) and Lung Cancer (LC). Nonetheless, classical deep learning framework...

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Hierarchical Caching for Agentic Workflows: A Multi-Level Architecture to Reduce Tool Execution Overhead

  • Farhana Begum,
  • Craig Scott,
  • Kofi Nyarko,
  • Mansoureh Jeihani and
  • Fahmi Khalifa

Large Language Model (LLM) agents depend heavily on multiple external tools such as APIs, databases and computational services to perform complex tasks. However, these tool executions create latency and introduce costs, particularly when agents handl...

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295 Views
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Axiom Generation for Automated Ontology Construction from Texts Through Schema Mapping

  • Tsitsi Zengeya,
  • Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu and
  • Mandlenkosi Gwetu

Ontology learning from unstructured text has become a critical task for knowledge-driven applications in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. While significant advances have been made in the automatic extraction of concepts and relations using neura...

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Conversational agents are transforming digital interactions across various domains, including healthcare, education, and customer service, thanks to advances in large language models (LLMs). As these systems become more autonomous and ubiquitous, und...

  • Systematic Review
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506 Views
45 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Thyroid Cancer Classification: A Systematic Review

  • Yanche Ari Kustiawan,
  • Khairil Imran Ghauth,
  • Sakina Ghauth,
  • Liew Yew Toong and
  • Sien Hui Tan

Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine learning and deep learning architectures, has been widely applied to support thyroid cancer diagnosis, but existing evidence on its performance and limitations remains scattered across techniques, ta...

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276 Views
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Transformer-Driven Semi-Supervised Learning for Prostate Cancer Histopathology: A DINOv2–TransUNet Framework

  • Rubina Akter Rabeya,
  • Jeong-Wook Seo,
  • Nam Hoon Cho,
  • Hee-Cheol Kim and
  • Heung-Kook Choi

Prostate cancer is diagnosed through a comprehensive study of histopathology slides, which takes time and requires professional interpretation. To minimize this load, we developed a semi-supervised learning technique that combines transformer-based r...

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We present a combined ML/NLP (Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing) pipeline for protecting cloud-based APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), which works both at the level of individual HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests and at...

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COVAS: Highlighting the Importance of Outliers in Classification Through Explainable AI

  • Sebastian Roth,
  • Adrien Cerrito,
  • Samuel Orth,
  • Ulrich Hartmann and
  • Daniel Friemert

Understanding the decision-making behavior of machine learning models is essential in domains where individual predictions matter, such as medical diagnosis or sports analytics. While explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods such as SHAP pro...

  • Systematic Review
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18 Pages

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss; anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy is standard care for neovascular AMD (nAMD), yet treatment response varies. We systematically reviewed...

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In the world of e-commerce, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention depends on delivering an optimal user experience. As the primary point of contact between businesses and consumers, a user interface’s success hinges on personalized human...

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With the increasing complexity of cyber threats and the inefficiency of traditional vulnerability management, artificial intelligence has been increasingly integrated into cybersecurity. This review provides a comprehensive evaluation of AI-powered s...

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Environmental monitoring systems generate large volumes of multivariate time series data from heterogeneous sensors, including those measuring soil, weather, and air quality parameters. However, sensor malfunctions and transmission failures frequentl...

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MBS: A Modality-Balanced Strategy for Multimodal Sample Selection

  • Yuntao Xu,
  • Bing Chen,
  • Feng Hu,
  • Jiawei Liu,
  • Changjie Zhao and
  • Hongtao Wu

With the rapid development of applications such as edge computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and embodied intelligence, massive multimodal data are continuously generated on end devices in a streaming manner. To maintain model adaptability and ro...

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Assessing the Value of Data-Driven Frameworks for Personalized Medicine in Pituitary Tumours: A Critical Overview

  • Joan Gil,
  • Paula de Pedro-Campos,
  • Cristina Carrato,
  • Pol Jardí-Yanes,
  • Montserrat Marques-Pamies,
  • Helena Rodríguez-Lloveras,
  • Anna Rueda-Pujol,
  • Jennifer Marcos-Ruiz,
  • Elena Martinez-Saez and
  • Manel Puig-Domingo
  • + 14 authors

Background: Pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (PitNETs) are clinically and biologically heterogeneous neoplasms that remain challenging to diagnose, prognosticate, and treat. Although recent WHO classifications using transcription-factor-based markers...

  • Systematic Review
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66 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Models for Forecasting Mosquito-Borne Viral Diseases in Human Populations: A Global Systematic Review and Comparative Performance Analysis

  • Flavia Pennisi,
  • Antonio Pinto,
  • Fabio Borgonovo,
  • Giovanni Scaglione,
  • Riccardo Ligresti,
  • Omar Enzo Santangelo,
  • Sandro Provenzano,
  • Andrea Gori,
  • Vincenzo Baldo and
  • Vincenza Gianfredi
  • + 1 author

Background: Mosquito-borne viral diseases are a growing global health threat, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are increasingly proposed as forecasting tools to support early-warning and response. However, the available evid...

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476 Views
14 Pages

The increasing availability of satellite data at different spatial resolutions offers new opportunities for environmental monitoring, highlighting the limitations of medium-resolution products for fine-scale territorial analysis. However, it also rai...

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In machine learning, the Bayes classifier represents the theoretical optimum for minimizing classification errors. Since estimating high-dimensional probability densities is impractical, simplified approximations such as naïve Bayes and k-neares...

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456 Views
43 Pages

A Multimodal Phishing Website Detection System Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence Technologies

  • Alexey Vulfin,
  • Alexey Sulavko,
  • Vladimir Vasiliev,
  • Alexander Minko,
  • Anastasia Kirillova and
  • Alexander Samotuga

The purpose of the present study is to improve the efficiency of phishing web resource detection through multimodal analysis and using methods of explainable artificial intelligence. We propose a late fusion architecture in which independent speciali...

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22 Pages

Machine Learning for Nanomaterial Discovery and Design

  • Antonio del Bosque,
  • Pablo Fernández-Arias and
  • Diego Vergara

Machine learning (ML) has become a transformative tool in nanomaterial research, driven by the rapid growth of data-intensive experimental techniques, multiscale simulations, and computational modeling. This study provides a bibliometric analysis to...

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Context-Aware Emotion Gating and Modulation for Fine-Grained Sentiment Classification

  • Anupama Udayangani Gunathilaka Thennakoon Mudiyanselage,
  • Jinglan Zhang and
  • Yeufeng Li

Fine-grained sentiment analysis requires a deep understanding of emotional intensity in the text to distinguish subtle shifts in polarity, such as moving from positive to more positive or from negative to more negative, and to clearly separate emotio...

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24 Pages

WSI-GT: Pseudo-Label Guided Graph Transformer for Whole-Slide Histology

  • Zhongao Sun,
  • Alexander Khvostikov,
  • Andrey Krylov,
  • Ilya Mikhailov and
  • Pavel Malkov

Whole-slide histology images (WSIs) can exceed 100 k × 100 k pixels, making direct pixel-level segmentation infeasible and requiring patch-level classification as a practical alternative for downstream WSI segmentation. However, most approaches...

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31 Pages

WinStat: A Family of Trainable Positional Encodings for Transformers in Time Series Forecasting

  • Cristhian Moya-Mota,
  • Ignacio Aguilera-Martos,
  • Diego García-Gil and
  • Julián Luengo

Transformers for time series forecasting rely on positional encoding to inject temporal order into the permutation-invariant self-attention mechanism. Classical sinusoidal absolute encodings are fixed and purely geometric; learnable absolute encoding...

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43 Pages

Research Frontiers in Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction

  • Andreas Holzinger,
  • Luca Longo,
  • Angelo Cangelosi and
  • Javier Del Ser

Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction have evolved from algorithmic tools for pattern recognition into a unifying foundational scientific framework underpinning virtually all of today’s groundbreaking advances, enabling systematic discovery...

  • Systematic Review
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Deep Learning Algorithms for Defect Detection on Electronic Assemblies: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Bernardo Montoya Magaña,
  • Óscar Hernández-Uribe,
  • Leonor Adriana Cárdenas-Robledo and
  • Jose Antonio Cantoral-Ceballos

The electronic manufacturing industry is relying on automatic and rapid defect inspection of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Two main challenges hinder the accuracy and real-time defect detection: the growing density of electronic component placement...

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18 Pages

Multilayer Perceptron, Radial Basis Function, and Generalized Regression Networks Applied to the Estimation of Total Power Losses in Electrical Systems

  • Giovana Gonçalves da Silva,
  • Ronald Felipe Marca Roque,
  • Moisés Arreguín Sámano,
  • Neylan Leal Dias,
  • Ana Claudia de Jesus Golzio and
  • Alfredo Bonini Neto

This paper presents an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach for estimating total real and reactive power losses in electrical power systems. Three network architectures were explored: the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), the Radial Basis Function (RB...

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21 Pages

XCC-Net: An X-Shaped Collective Convolution Network Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation

  • Anass Garbaz,
  • Yassine Oukdach,
  • Said Charfi,
  • Mohamed El Ansari,
  • Lahcen Koutti,
  • Mustapha Hedabou,
  • Mustapha Oujaoura and
  • Abdel Motalib Lagsoun

Encoder–decoder models are widely used for pixel-level segmentation due to their ability to capture and combine multiscale features. However, skip connections between the encoder and decoder often require cropping to mitigate border pixel loss...

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Enhancing GNN Explanations for Malware Detection with Dual Subgraph Matching

  • Hossein Shokouhinejad,
  • Roozbeh Razavi-Far,
  • Griffin Higgins and
  • Ali A. Ghorbani

The increasing sophistication of malware has challenged the effectiveness of conventional detection techniques, motivating the adoption of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for their ability to model the structural and semantic information embedded in con...

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21 Pages

An Integrated Artificial Intelligence Tool for Predicting and Managing Project Risks

  • Andreea Geamanu,
  • Maria-Iuliana Dascalu,
  • Ana-Maria Neagu and
  • Raluca Ioana Guica

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to enhance project management practices, especially in risk analysis, where traditional tools often lack predictive capabilities. This study introduces an AI-based tool that supports project teams in...

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37 Pages

In this study, a structured and methodological evaluation approach for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods in medical image classification is proposed and implemented using LIME and SHAP explanations for chest X-ray interpretations. The...

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21 Pages

Receipt Information Extraction with Joint Multi-Modal Transformer and Rule-Based Model

  • Xandru Mifsud,
  • Leander Grech,
  • Adriana Baldacchino,
  • Léa Keller,
  • Gianluca Valentino and
  • Adrian Muscat

A receipt information extraction task requires both textual and spatial analyses. Early receipt analysis systems primarily relied on template matching to extract data from spatially structured documents. However, these methods lack generalizability a...

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Machine Learning Prediction of Recurrent Vasovagal Syncope in Children Using Heart Rate Variability and Anthropometric Data—A Pilot Study

  • Piotr Wieniawski,
  • Jakub S. Gąsior,
  • Maciej Rosoł,
  • Marcel Młyńczak,
  • Ewa Smereczyńska-Wierzbicka,
  • Anna Piórecka-Makuła and
  • Radosław Pietrzak

Vasovagal syncope (VVS) affects 17% of children, significantly impairing quality of life. Machine learning (ML) models achieve high predictive accuracy of VVS in adults using blood pressure (BP) monitoring, but pediatric implementation remains challe...

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478 Views
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Background: Automated pain assessment aims to enable objective measurement of patients’ individual pain experiences for improving health care and conserving medical staff. This is particularly important for patients with a disability to communi...

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609 Views
15 Pages

N-Gram and RNN-LM Language Model Integration for End-to-End Amazigh Speech Recognition

  • Meryam Telmem,
  • Naouar Laaidi,
  • Youssef Ghanou and
  • Hassan Satori

This work investigates how different language modeling techniques affect the performance of an end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for the Amazigh language. A (CNN-BiLSTM-CTC) model enhanced with an attention mechanism was used as th...

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499 Views
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Operation and maintenance (O&M) events resulting from environmental factors (e.g., precipitation, temperature, seasonality, and unexpected weather conditions) are among the primary sources of operating costs and downtime in run-of-river small hyd...

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723 Views
20 Pages

Topic modeling is a fundamental technique in natural language processing used to uncover latent themes in large text corpora, yet existing approaches struggle to jointly achieve interpretability, semantic coherence, and scalability. Classical probabi...

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394 Views
35 Pages

This study explores a learning knowledge representation, using an iteratively reevaluated lattice of equivalence-classified properties. The proposed methodology is based on the evaluation feedback between the maximal and minimal elements of the compa...

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673 Views
22 Pages

FPGA-Accelerated ESN with Chaos Training for Financial Time Series Prediction

  • Zeinab A. Hassaan,
  • Mohammed H. Yacoub and
  • Lobna A. Said

Improving financial time series forecasting presents challenges because models often struggle to identify diverse fault patterns in unseen data. This issue is critical in fintech, where accurate and reliable forecasting of financial data is essential...

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Generative AI Agents for Bedside Sleep Apnea Detection and Sleep Coaching

  • Ashan Dhananjaya,
  • Gihan Gamage,
  • Sivaluxman Sivananthavel,
  • Nishan Mills,
  • Daswin De Silva and
  • Milos Manic

Sleep is increasingly acknowledged as a cornerstone of public health, with chronic sleep loss implicated in preventable injury and deaths. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects over one billion people worldwide but remains widely under-diagnosed due...

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46 Pages

The growing trend of using artificial intelligence models in many areas increases the need for a proper understanding of their functioning and decision-making. Although these models achieve high predictive accuracy, their lack of transparency poses m...

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715 Views
27 Pages

SkinVisualNet: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach Leveraging Explainable Models for Identifying Lyme Disease from Skin Rash Images

  • Amir Sohel,
  • Rittik Chandra Das Turjy,
  • Sarbajit Paul Bappy,
  • Md Assaduzzaman,
  • Ahmed Al Marouf,
  • Jon George Rokne and
  • Reda Alhajj

Lyme disease, caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium and transmitted through black-legged (deer) tick bites, is becoming increasingly prevalent globally. According to data from the Lyme Disease Association, the number of cases has surged by mor...

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595 Views
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Anomaly Detection Based on Markovian Geometric Diffusion

  • Erikson Carlos Ramos,
  • Leandro Carlos de Souza and
  • Gustavo Henrique Matos Bezerra Motta

Automatic anomaly detection is vital in domains such as healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity, where subtle deviations may signal fraud, failures, or impending risks. This paper proposes an unsupervised anomaly-detection method called Anomaly Detect...

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