Oriented object detection (OOD) can more accurately locate objects with an arbitrary direction in remote sensing images (RSIs) compared to horizontal object detection. The most commonly used bounding box regression (BBR) loss in OOD is smooth L1 loss...
Occluded pedestrian detection faces huge challenges. False positives and false negatives in crowd occlusion scenes will reduce the accuracy of occluded pedestrian detection. To overcome this problem, we proposed an improved you-only-look-once version...
Loss functions, such as the IoU Loss function and the GIoU (Generalized Intersection over Union) Loss function have been put forward to replace regression loss functions commonly used in regression loss calculation. GIoU Loss alleviates the vanishing...
Upgrading ordinary streetlights to smart streetlights to help monitor traffic flow is a low-cost and pragmatic option for cities. Fine-grained classification of vehicles in the sight of smart streetlights is essential for intelligent transportation a...
Rapid detection of illicit opium poppy plants using UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) imagery has become an important means to prevent and combat crimes related to drug cultivation. However, current methods rely on time-consuming visual image interpretat...
Weeds are a significant adverse factor affecting rice growth, and their efficient removal necessitates an accurate, efficient, and well-generalizing weed detection method. However, weed detection faces challenges such as a complex vegetation environm...
Balancing detection performance and computational efficiency is critical for sustainable pavement disease detection in energy-constrained scenarios. However, existing visual methods often struggle to adapt to structural transformations and capture cr...
In order to better utilize and protect marine organisms, reliable underwater object detection methods need to be developed. Due to various influencing factors from complex and changeable underwater environments, the underwater object detection is ful...
Examination is a way to select talents, and a perfect invigilation strategy can improve the fairness of the examination. To realize the automatic detection of abnormal behavior in the examination room, the method based on the improved YOLOv3 (The thi...
With the rapid development and increasing demands of civil aviation, the accurate detection of key aircraft components and staff on airport aprons is of great significance for ensuring the safety of flights and improving the operational efficiency of...
Background: We investigated the clinical signs to establish a method for rapid identification of patients with the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score ≥ 8 eligible for direct brain CTA study; Methods: We retrospectively enrolle...
Cardiomyopathy is a group of heterogeneous cardiac diseases that impair systolic and diastolic function, and can induce chronic heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Cardiomyopathy is prevalent in the general population, with high morbidity and mor...
Endometrial carcinogenesis is involved in several signaling pathways and it comprises multiple steps. The four major signaling pathways—PI3K/AKT, Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK, WNT/β-catenin, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)—are invol...
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a catastrophic complication in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). AML cells, especially in the acute promyelocytic leukemia subtype, may release microparticles (MPs), tissue factor (TF), and cancer procoagula...
The transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling pathway plays multiple regulatory roles in the tumorigenesis and development of cancer. TGF-β can inhibit the growth and proliferation of epithelial cells and induce apoptosis, thereby...
A spontaneous rupture of the spleen is a rare but critical diagnosis of an acute abdomen, which may accompany unspecific symptoms mimicking acute pancreatitis, rupture of aortic aneurism, or acute coronary syndrome, delaying diagnosis and treatment....
Kounis syndrome is a rare anaphylactic reaction leading to coronary spasm, acute plaque rupture, or intrastent stenosis. Many types of medicine or environmental factors can potentially trigger Kounis syndrome by mast cell allergic reactions. In sever...
Neisseria meningitidis-induced acute systemic meningococcal disease is an emergency and a fatal condition that has a high mortality rate. In patients with a fulminant infection, a maculopapular petechial eruption, purpura fulminans, or an ecchymotic...
Minocycline is a tetracycline group antibiotic that is known to cause significant antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. Minocycline has been widely used to treat systemic infection, acne, dermatitis, and rosacea. However, various dose-related...
Retroperitoneal hemorrhage is a life-threatening clinical entity which is difficult to diagnose due to numerous etiology and unspecific symptoms. Spontaneous severe retroperitoneal hemorrhage, known as Wunderlich’s syndrome presented with Lenk’s tria...
Acute aortic dissection is a rare but lethal cardiac disease involving the aorta, which presents with typical symptoms, including severe, sharp, or tearing acute onset of chest or back pain. Other unspecific symptoms, such as epigastric pain, nausea,...
Klebsiella pneumoniae-induced endogenous endophthalmitis is a rare but devastating disease, which usually occurs in immunosuppressed patients. Poorly controlled diabetes mellitus is a significant risk factor for this disease. The most common distant...
Background and Objectives: In the context of prehospital care, spinal immobilization is commonly employed to maintain cervical stability in head and neck injury patients. However, its use in cases of unclear consciousness or major trauma patients is...
Background and Objectives: The Taiwan Triage and Acuity Scale (TTAS) is reliable for triaging patients in emergency departments in Taiwan; however, most triage decisions are still based on chief complaints. The reverse-shock index (SI) multiplied by...
Acute respiratory distress syndrome is an inflammatory disease characterized by dysfunction of pulmonary epithelial and capillary endothelial cells, infiltration of alveolar macrophages and neutrophils, cell apoptosis, necroptosis, NETosis, and fibros...
Acute mesenteric infarction is a rare but emergency disease with a high mortality rate. The rapidly restoration of intestinal blood flow is the early goal of vascular intervention. However, the unspecific presentation may confuse physicians and delay...
Emphysematous pyelonephritis is a rare but life-threatening infection characterized by an accumulation of gas in the renal parenchyma. A high mortality rate was reported, and timely administration of broad-spectrum antibiotics for enteric gram-negati...
Disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis (DPL) is a rare condition that is characterized by the presence of multiple subperitoneal or peritoneal smooth muscle nodules of varying sizes on the omentum and peritoneal surfaces, grossly mimicking disseminat...
IgA nephropathy is an autoimmune disease induced by fthe ormation of galactose-deficient IgA1 and anti-glycans autoantibody. A multi-hit hypothesis was promoted to explain full expression of IgA nephropathy. The deposition of immune complex resulted...
Geriatric traumatic injuries in emergency departments are frequent and associated with higher mortality rates and catastrophic functional outcomes. Several prediction scores have been established to manage traumatic patients, including the shock inde...
Aging processes, including immunosenescence, inflammation, inflammasome formation, genomic instability, telomeric attrition, and altered autophagy, are involved in viral infections and they may contribute to increased pathophysiological responses to...
Background: Research on the impact of reduced time to emergent surgery in trauma patients has yielded inconsistent results. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between waiting emergent surgery time (WEST) and outcomes in trauma patien...
Post-snakebite compartment syndrome (PSCS) is an uncommon but dangerous condition. Compartment syndrome-like symptoms after snakebite by Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (P. mucrosquamatus) are not effective in guiding fasciotomy. Objective evaluation of...
Vomiting-induced pneumomediastinum is a rare presentation and can be a result of alveolar rupture (Mackler effect) or Boerhaave syndrome. Patients diagnosed with Boerhaave syndrome may present with the classic Mackler triad of vomiting, chest pain, a...
Background: Early trauma team activation (TTA) may improve clinical outcomes through early diagnosis and timely intervention by a dedicated multidisciplinary team. Controversy seems to exist about the effect of establishing trauma team systems in tra...
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disorder with characteristics of arterial and/or venous thrombosis due to hypercoagulation status. Although deep vein thrombosis is common, the involvement of arterial thrombosis is more dangerous and...
Spiked helmet sign is a novel electrocardiogram marker that reflects a poor prognosis, and may mimic myocardial infarction, especially in patients with an acute alteration of mental status or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. In cases where a spiked he...
Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly spreading inflammation of the soft tissue involving the fascia and the subcutaneous tissue. Early and aggressive surgical intervention accompanied with appropriate antibiotics are the key to improve clinical outcome...
The shock index (SI) is a useful tool for predicting the injury severity and mortality in patients with trauma. However, pediatric physiology differs from that of adults. In the pediatric trauma population, the shock status may be obscured within the...
Background: Computed tomography (CT) angiography is widely regarded as the gold standard for diagnosing acute aortic dissection. However, in patients with contraindications to iodinated contrast media, such as those with renal insufficiency or hemody...
Bupropion overdose can result in severe neurological and cardiovascular toxicity. We describe a 16-year-old girl who ingested 4.2 g of extended-release bupropion (90.3 mg/kg), presenting with seizures and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. After 21 min...
Gynura formosana Kitam possesses beneficial properties such as heat-clearing, detoxification, and cough suppression, making it a highly nutritious plant with significant economic value. During its growth, the plant’s leaves are prone to infecti...
In this paper, we address the issues of insufficient accuracy and frequent identity switching in the multi-target tracking algorithm DeepSORT by proposing two improvement strategies. First, we optimize the appearance feature extraction process by tra...
The object detection technologies of remote sensing are widely used in various fields, such as environmental monitoring, geological disaster investigation, urban planning, and military defense. However, the detection algorithms lack the robustness to...
Joint detection and embedding (JDE) methods usually fuse the target motion information and appearance information as the data association matrix, which could fail when the target is briefly lost or blocked in multi-object tracking (MOT). In this pape...
Three-dimensional (3D) object detection is an important research in 3D computer vision with significant applications in many fields, such as automatic driving, robotics, and human–computer interaction. However, the low precision is an urgent pr...
This study proposes a GC-YOLOv5s crack-detection network of UAVs to work out several issues, such as the low efficiency, low detection accuracy caused by shadows, occlusions and low contrast, and influences due to road noise in the classic crack-dete...
The diversity and complexity of the agricultural environment pose significant challenges for the collection of pest and disease data. Additionally, pest and disease datasets often suffer from uneven distribution in quantity and inconsistent annotatio...
Structure detection (SD) has emerged as a critical technology for ensuring the safety and longevity of infrastructure, particularly in housing and civil engineering. Traditional SD methods often rely on manual inspections, which are time-consuming, l...
Object detection is an indispensable part of autonomous driving. It is the basis of other high-level applications. For example, autonomous vehicles need to use the object detection results to navigate and avoid obstacles. In this paper, we propose a...
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