Due to the growing complexity of video encoders, the optimization of the parameters of the encoding process is becoming an important issue. In recent years, this has become an important field of application of neural networks. Artificial neural netwo...
Video coding standards, such as high-efficiency video coding (HEVC), versatile video coding (VVC), and AOMedia video 2 (AV2), achieve an optimal encoding performance by traversing all possible combinations of coding unit (CU) partition and selecting...
Cancer cell mitochondria are functionally different from those in normal cells and could be targeted to develop novel anticancer agents. The aryl-ureido fatty acid CTU (16({[4-chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-carbamoyl}amino)hexadecanoic acid) is th...
Computed tomography urography (CTU) is a specialized radiological procedure that produces finely detailed pictures of the urinary system, comprising the kidneys, ureters, and bladder, using computed tomography (CT) scans. This diagnostic procedure&rs...
Background: Computed tomography urography (CTU) is routinely used to evaluate the upper urinary tract in patients with hematuria. CTU may detect incidental findings outside the urinary tract, but it remains unclear if this adds value. This study aime...
People experience emotions during travel. Driving, riding a bicycle, taking transit, and walking all involve multiple mental processes, potentially leading to various ranges of emotions such as fear, anger, sorrow, joy, and anticipation. Understandin...
This research is based on an intra-frame rate control algorithm based on the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, considering that there is the phenomenon of over-allocating the bitrate of the end coding tree units (CTUs) in the bit allocation proc...
A Computed Tomography Urography (CTU) scan is a medical imaging test that examines the urinary tract, including the bladder, kidneys, and ureters. It helps diagnose various urinary tract diseases with precision. However, patients undergoing CTU imagi...
The resource endowment structure of being coal-rich and oil-poor makes China’s production of coal-based ammonia and urea, with a low production cost and a good market, a competitive advantage. However, the process suffers from high CO2 emission...
Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is the fourth most frequent tumor in Western countries and upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC), affecting pyelocaliceal cavities and ureter, accounts for 5–10% of all UCs. Computed tomography urography (CTU) is now...
High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is one of the most widely studied coding standards. It still uses the block-based hybrid coding framework of Advanced Video Coding (AVC), and compared to AVC, it can double the compression ratio while maintaining t...
The purpose of this study was to compare the scan time, image quality and radiation dose of CT urograms (CTU) using a split vs. single bolus contrast media injection technique. A total of 241 consecutive CTUs performed between August 2019-February 20...
Computed Tomography Urography (CTU) is a multiphase CT examination optimized for imaging kidneys, ureters, and bladder, complemented by post-contrast excretory phase imaging. Different protocols are available for contrast administration and image acq...
(1) Background: Older adults comprise a large proportion of hospitalized patients. Many are frail and require complex care. Geriatrics has developed models of care specific to this inpatient population. Our objective was to demonstrate the effect of...
Metal artifacts are common in CT-guided interventions due to the presence of metallic instruments. These artifacts often obscure clinically relevant structures, which can complicate the intervention. In this work, we present a deep learning CT recons...
For the first time in research literature, this report presents the seasonal changes of total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and TOC:TN ratio in Chernozem solum (0–100 cm) as effected by 14 years of application of conventional tilla...
In this paper, a conventional 12-pulse transformer unit (CTU) and an autotransformer 12-pulse transformer unit (ATU) are compared in the view of the RTCA DO-160 standard for aircraft applications. The design of the magnetic components is proposed via...
Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is a rare and aggressive malignancy with a poor prognosis. The accurate prediction of survival and recurrence in UTUC is crucial for effective risk stratification and guiding therapeutic decisions. Models combi...
This study aimed to investigate the interactions between corn particle size (PS) and conditioning temperature (CT) on the performance, carcass traits, intestinal morphology, and immune responses in broilers fed a corn-soybean meal-based diet. A total...
In past years, several visual saliency algorithms have been proposed to extract salient regions from multimedia content in view of practical applications. Entropy is one of the important measures to extract salient regions, as these regions have high...
29 June 2021
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted when, where, and how employees work. Drawing on a sample of 5452 Finnish employees, this study explores the factors associated with employees’ abrupt adjustment to remote work. Specifically, this study examines struc...
Background: In Canada, there is growing evidence that oncology clinical trials units (ctus) and programs face serious financial challenges. Investment in cancer research in Canada has declined almost 20% in the 5 years since its peak in 2011, and the...
Survival prediction post-cystectomy is essential for the follow-up care of bladder cancer patients. This study aimed to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI)-large language models (LLMs) for extracting clinical information and improving image analysi...
High efficiency video coding (HEVC) has dramatically enhanced coding efficiency compared to the previous video coding standard, H.264/AVC. However, the existing rate control updates its parameters according to a fixed initialization, which can cause...
Autonomous vehicles are a promising solution to traffic congestion, air pollution, accidents, wasted time, and resources. However, remote driver intervention may be necessary in extreme situations to ensure safe roadside parking or complete remote ta...
Environmental impact assessment is a crucial aspect of biofuels production to ensure that the process generates emissions within the designated limits. In typical cellulosic biofuel production process, the pretreatment and downstream processing stage...
Small-object detection in UAV remote sensing faces common challenges such as tiny target size, blurred features, and severe background interference. Furthermore, single imaging modalities exhibit limited representation capability in complex environme...
Video playback on mobile consumer electronic (CE) devices is plagued by fluctuations in the network bandwidth and by limitations in processing and energy availability at the individual devices. Seen as a potential solution, the state-of-the-art adapt...
Despite the high incidence of bladder cancer (it represents the 7th most common cancer in males), EAU guidelines do not recommend any technique for screening and prevention, whereas the main diagnostic tools remain computed tomography urography (CTU)...
The High Efficiency Video Coding Standard (HEVC) is one of the most advanced coding schemes at present, and its excellent coding performance is highly suitable for application in the navigation field with limited bandwidth. In recent years, the devel...
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the value of machine learning models for preoperative non-invasive prediction of International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) grading in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) based on...
In the field of network intrusion, malware usually evades anomaly detection by disguising malicious behavior as legitimate access. Therefore, detecting these attacks from network traffic has become a challenge in this an adversarial setting. In this...
24 September 2019
Recent trends in the electric energy market such as biomass, waste incineration or combined cycle power plants require innovative solutions in steam turbine design. Variable operating conditions cause significant changes in flow field surrounding the...
This study explores the formation and properties of new complexes involving gallium(III) and thiouracil derivatives—2-thiouracil (TU), 6-methyl-2-thiouracil (MTU), 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU), 5-carboxy-2-thiouracil (CTU), and 6-methoxymethyl-2...
This observer study investigates the effect of computerized artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision support system (CDSS-T) on physicians’ diagnostic accuracy in assessing bladder cancer treatment response. The performance of 17 observers w...
While ensuring the accuracy of encrypted malicious traffic detection, improving model training speed remains a challenge. In order to solve this challenge, we propose CNNRes-DIndRNN for detecting encrypted malicious traffic classification. This model...
Industry 5.0 promotes sustainable, resilient, and human-centric manufacturing. Many factories struggle to produce energy-aware schedules that balance throughput, energy, and time-of-use (TOU) tariffs. Classical methods (heuristics and optimization) h...
Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly intelligent and aggressive, making them more adept at covering their tracks, and the global epidemic of cybercrime necessitates significant efforts to enhance cybersecurity in a realistic way. The COVID-19 pan...
Real-time anomaly detection in large, dynamic graph networks is crucial for real-world applications such as network intrusion prevention, fraud transaction identification, fake news detection in social networks, and uncovering abnormal communication...
No data on interstitial microduplications of the 16q24.2q24.3 chromosome region are available in the medical literature and remain extraordinarily rare in public databases. Here, we describe a boy with a de novo 16q24.2q24.3 microduplication at the S...
Accurate malware family classification from dynamic sandbox reports continues to be a fundamental cybersecurity challenge. Most prior works depend on random splits that tend to overestimate accuracy, whereas deployment requires robustness under tempo...
Patients with non-muscle invasive (NMI) urothelial bladder cancer (BC) are at increased risk for the development of a secondary upper-urinary-tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). We aimed to assess the usefulness of routine upper-tract imaging surveill...
Among a series of video coding standards jointly developed by ITU-T, VCEG, and MPEG, high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) is one of the most widely used video coding standards today. Therefore, it is still necessary to further reduce the coding comple...
Building Management Systems (BMSs) are transitioning from utilising wired installations to wireless Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and actuators. This shift introduces the requirement of robust localisation methods which can link the installed sens...
Recently, the H.265/HEVC video coding has been standardised by the ITU-T VCEG and the ISO/IEC MPEG. The improvements in H.265/HEVC video coding structure (CTU, motion compensation, inter- and intra-prediction, etc.) open up new possibilities to reali...
High-efficiency video coding (HEVC) outperforms H.264 in coding efficiency. However, the rate–distortion optimization (RDO) process in coding tree unit (CTU) partitioning requires an exhaustive exploration of all possible quad-tree partitions,...
A recently developed software application, eCTG, extracts cardiotocographic (CTG) signals from digital CTG images, possibly obtained by scanning paper CTG reports. The aim of this study was to evaluate eCTG robustness across varying image formats, re...
The emergence of the new generation video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has brought along novel features rendering the new standard more efficient and flexible than its predecessors. Aside from efficient compression of 8 k or higher...
Background: Limited data exist on the comparative diagnostic value of CT urography (CTU) versus unenhanced CT in evaluating the upper urinary tract in young adults (<50 years) with hematuria in active military service. This population may face an...
The objective of this study was to use whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to screen for genes encoding for antibiotic resistance, fitness and virulence in Cronobacter sakazakii strains that had been isolated from food and powdered-milk-producing environme...
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