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3 Citations
1,816 Views
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An Efficient Bi-Parametric With-Memory Iterative Method for Solving Nonlinear Equations

  • Ekta Sharma,
  • Shubham Kumar Mittal,
  • J. P. Jaiswal and
  • Sunil Panday

11 December 2023

New three-step with-memory iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations are presented. We have enhanced the convergence order of an existing eighth-order memory-less iterative method by transforming it into a with-memory method. Enhanced acceler...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,687 Views
13 Pages

Use of a Polymer Inclusion Membrane and a Chelating Resin for the Flow-Based Sequential Determination of Copper(II) and Zinc(II) in Natural Waters and Soil Leachates

  • Tânia C. F. Ribas,
  • Charles F. Croft,
  • M. Inês G. S. Almeida,
  • Raquel B. R. Mesquita,
  • Spas D. Kolev and
  • António O. S. S. Rangel

31 October 2020

A bi-parametric sequential injection method for the determination of copper(II) and zinc(II) when present together in aqueous samples was developed. This was achieved by using a non-specific colorimetric reagent (4-(2-pyridylazo)resorcinol, PAR) toge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,511 Views
14 Pages

26 December 2019

As an intelligent material, piezoelectric materials have been widely used in many intelligent fields, especially in the analysis and design of sensors and actuators; however, the vibration problems of the corresponding structures made of the piezoele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,592 Views
19 Pages

10 May 2024

Background: Accurate, reliable, non-invasive assessment of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer is essential for proper disease management. Quantitative assessment of multi-parametric MRI, such as through artificial intelligence or spectral/statis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,144 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, a family of Ostrowski-type iterative schemes with a biparameter was analyzed. We present the dynamic view of the proposed method and study various conjugation properties. The stability of the strange fixed points for special parameter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,778 Views
24 Pages

Assessing Cancer Presence in Prostate MRI Using Multi-Encoder Cross-Attention Networks

  • Avtantil Dimitriadis,
  • Grigorios Kalliatakis,
  • Richard Osuala,
  • Dimitri Kessler,
  • Simone Mazzetti,
  • Daniele Regge,
  • Oliver Diaz,
  • Karim Lekadir,
  • Dimitrios Fotiadis and
  • Kostas Marias
  • + 3 authors

Prostate cancer (PCa) is currently the second most prevalent cancer among men. Accurate diagnosis of PCa can provide effective treatment for patients and reduce mortality. Previous works have merely focused on either lesion detection or lesion classi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,644 Views
27 Pages

On a Bi-Parametric Family of Fourth Order Composite Newton–Jarratt Methods for Nonlinear Systems

  • Janak Raj Sharma,
  • Deepak Kumar,
  • Ioannis K. Argyros and
  • Ángel Alberto Magreñán

We present a new two-parameter family of fourth-order iterative methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. The scheme is composed of two Newton–Jarratt steps and requires the evaluation of one function and two first derivatives in each...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,486 Views
14 Pages

A New Adaptive Eleventh-Order Memory Algorithm for Solving Nonlinear Equations

  • Sunil Panday,
  • Shubham Kumar Mittal,
  • Carmen Elena Stoenoiu and
  • Lorentz Jäntschi

11 June 2024

In this article, we introduce a novel three-step iterative algorithm with memory for finding the roots of nonlinear equations. The convergence order of an established eighth-order iterative method is elevated by transforming it into a with-memory var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
6,633 Views
14 Pages

Combination of Peri-Tumoral and Intra-Tumoral Radiomic Features on Bi-Parametric MRI Accurately Stratifies Prostate Cancer Risk: A Multi-Site Study

  • Ahmad Algohary,
  • Rakesh Shiradkar,
  • Shivani Pahwa,
  • Andrei Purysko,
  • Sadhna Verma,
  • Daniel Moses,
  • Ronald Shnier,
  • Anne-Maree Haynes,
  • Warick Delprado and
  • Anant Madabhushi
  • + 6 authors

6 August 2020

Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) influences its surrounding habitat, which tends to manifest as different phenotypic appearances on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This region surrounding the PCa lesion, or the peri-tumoral region, may encode usef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,603 Views
17 Pages

Stochastic Generation of District Heat Load

  • Andrea Menapace,
  • Simone Santopietro,
  • Rudy Gargano and
  • Maurizio Righetti

27 August 2021

Modelling heat load is a crucial challenge for the proper management of heat production and distribution. Several studies have tackled this issue at building and urban levels, however, the current scale of interest is shifting to the district level d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,377 Views
21 Pages

10 September 2025

This paper proposes the use of quantitative methods for the characterization of tissues by linking, into a single approach, ideas coming from the spectral analysis methods commonly used to determine the attenuation coefficient with the envelope stati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,051 Views
15 Pages

23 December 2022

Purpose: To explore the role of bi-parametric MRI radiomics features in identifying PNI in high-grade PCa and to further develop a combined nomogram with clinical information. Methods: 183 high-grade PCa patients were included in this retrospective s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,097 Views
12 Pages

12 May 2021

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of PI-RADS v2, proposed adjustments to PI-RADS v2 (PA PI-RADS v2) and biparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for prostate cancer detection. Methods: A retrospective cohort of 224 patients with su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,696 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2023

(1) Background: Non-invasive prostate cancer assessments using multi-parametric MRI are essential to the reliable detection of lesions and proper management of patients. While current guidelines call for the administration of Gadolinium-containing in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,016 Views
18 Pages

Cross-Scanner Harmonization of AI/DL Accelerated Quantitative Bi-Parametric Prostate MRI

  • Dariya Malyarenko,
  • Scott D. Swanson,
  • Jacob Richardson,
  • Suzan Lowe,
  • James O’Connor,
  • Yun Jiang,
  • Reve Chahine,
  • Shane A. Wells and
  • Thomas L. Chenevert

19 September 2025

Clinical application of AI/DL-aided acquisitions for quantitative bi-parametric (q-bp)MRI requires validation and harmonization across vendor platforms. An AI/DL-accelerated q-bpMRI, including 5-echo T2 and 4-b-value apparent diffusion coefficient (A...

  • Review
  • Open Access
248 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2026

Background/Objectives: Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a standard treatment for localized and locally advanced prostate cancer; however, optimizing oncologic control while preserving urinary continence and erectile function remains c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,177 Views
13 Pages

A Geometrical Study about the Biparametric Family of Anomalies in the Elliptic Two-Body Problem with Extensions to Other Families

  • José Antonio López Ortí,
  • Francisco José Marco Castillo and
  • María José Martínez Usó

4 February 2024

In the present paper, we efficiently solve the two-body problem for extreme cases such as those with high eccentricities. The use of numerical methods, with the usual variables, cannot maintain the perihelion passage accurately. In previous articles,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,480 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2022

The biparametric perturbation method is applied to solve the improved Föppl–von Kármán equation, in which the improvements of equations come from two different aspects: the first aspect concerns materials, and the other is fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,291 Views
24 Pages

27 December 2024

Nonlinear equations are essential in research and engineering because they simulate complicated processes such as fluid dynamics, chemical reactions, and population growth. The development of advanced methods to address them becomes essential for sci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,747 Views
22 Pages

Prostate cancer detection with magnetic resonance imaging is based on a standardized MRI-protocol according to the PI-RADS guidelines including morphologic imaging, diffusion weighted imaging, and perfusion. To facilitate data acquisition and analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,019 Views
10 Pages

In this article, we introduce a model of bi-matrix games based on crisp parametric payoffs via utilizing the method of interval value function. Then, we get that equilibrium solutions of bi-matrix games on the basis of fuzzy payoffs and equilibrium s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,941 Views
13 Pages

Background: Current prostate cancer evaluation can be inaccurate and burdensome. Quantitative evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequences non-invasively helps prostate tumor assessment. However, including Dynamic Contrast Enhancement (DC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,071 Views
13 Pages

Background: to evaluate the feasibility of texture analysis (TA) based on diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in staging and grading bladder cancer (BC) and to compare it with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and biparametric vesical imaging reporti...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,523 Views
15 Pages

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Biparametric MRI for Detecting Prostate Cancer—A Comparative Multireader Multicase Accuracy Study

  • Daniel Nißler,
  • Sabrina Reimers-Kipping,
  • Maja Ingwersen,
  • Frank Berger,
  • Felix Niekrenz,
  • Bernhard Theis,
  • Fabian Hielscher,
  • Philipp Franken,
  • Nikolaus Gaßler and
  • Tobias Franiel
  • + 2 authors

29 August 2025

Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of AI-assisted biparametric MRI (AI-bpMRI) in detecting prostate cancer (PCa) as a possible replacement for multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) depending on readers’ experience. Methods: This fully crosse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,211 Views
12 Pages

Outcomes of a Diagnostic Pathway for Prostate Cancer Based on Biparametric MRI and MRI-Targeted Biopsy Only in a Large Teaching Hospital

  • Leonor J. Paulino Pereira,
  • Daan J. Reesink,
  • Peter de Bruin,
  • Giorgio Gandaglia,
  • Erik J. R. J. van der Hoeven,
  • Giancarlo Marra,
  • Anne Prinsen,
  • Pawel Rajwa,
  • Timo Soeterik and
  • Roderick C. N. van den Bergh
  • + 4 authors

29 September 2023

Background: Diagnostic pathways for prostate cancer (PCa) balance detection rates and burden. MRI impacts biopsy indication and strategy. Methods: A prospectively collected cohort database (N = 496) of men referred for elevated PSA and/or abnormal DR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,346 Views
14 Pages

1 November 2022

This study presents a hybrid Artificial Intelligence-Finite Element Method (AI-FEM) predictive model to estimate the modulus of a subgrade reaction of a strip footing rested on a bi-layered profile. A parametric study was carried out using 2D Plaxis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,661 Views
24 Pages

4 April 2025

This study presents a novel dual-band microstrip antenna operating at 28/38 GHz, which is designed for fifth generation (5G) and next-generation communications. The objective was to create a high-gain, single-element solution that addresses millimete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,537 Views
16 Pages

Cucumber Picking Recognition in Near-Color Background Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Liyang Su,
  • Haixia Sun,
  • Shujuan Zhang,
  • Xinyuan Lu,
  • Runrun Wang,
  • Linjie Wang and
  • Ning Wang

4 August 2023

Rapid and precise detection of cucumbers is a key element in enhancing the capability of intelligent harvesting robots. Problems such as near-color background interference, branch and leaf occlusion of fruits, and target scale diversity in greenhouse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,988 Views
16 Pages

13 October 2020

To improve the performance of deep learning methods in case of a lack of labeled data for entity annotation in entity recognition tasks, this study proposes transfer learning schemes that combine the character to be the word to convert low-resource d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
135 Views
17 Pages

Reproducibility of MRI Radiomics Measurements in Men with Prostate Cancer Undergoing Active Surveillance

  • Himanshu Sharma,
  • Haitham Al-Mubarak,
  • Juan Lloret Del Hoyo,
  • Ghadi Abboud,
  • Octavia Bane,
  • Mickael Tordjman,
  • Mira M. Liu,
  • Vinayak Wagaskar,
  • Ashutosh Tewari and
  • Sara Lewis
  • + 1 author

28 February 2026

Background: MRI-based radiomics has shown promise in men with prostate cancer (PCa); however, successful clinical implementation is contingent upon on reproducible measurements. Purpose: We assessed the reproducibility of radiomics features extracted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,513 Views
21 Pages

An Intercomparison of Sentinel-1 Based Change Detection Algorithms for Flood Mapping

  • Mark Edwin Tupas,
  • Florian Roth,
  • Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger and
  • Wolfgang Wagner

22 February 2023

With its unrivaled and global land monitoring capability, the Sentinel-1 mission has been established as a prime provider in SAR-based flood mapping. Compared to suitable single-image flood algorithms, change-detection methods offer better robustness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,421 Views
10 Pages

Diagnostic Accuracy of Abbreviated Bi-Parametric MRI (a-bpMRI) for Prostate Cancer Detection and Screening: A Multi-Reader Study

  • Giorgio Brembilla,
  • Francesco Giganti,
  • Harbir Sidhu,
  • Massimo Imbriaco,
  • Sue Mallett,
  • Armando Stabile,
  • Alex Freeman,
  • Hashim U. Ahmed,
  • Caroline Moore and
  • Shonit Punwani
  • + 1 author

(1) Background: There is currently limited evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of abbreviated biparametric MRI (a-bpMRI) protocols for prostate cancer (PCa) detection and screening. In the present study, we aim to investigate the performance of a-bpM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,651 Views
20 Pages

2 January 2024

In this paper, a compound-Gaussian model (CGM) with the Nakagami-distributed textures (CGNG) is proposed to model sea clutter at medium/high grazing angles. The corresponding amplitude distributions are referred to as the CGNG distributions. The anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,993 Views
19 Pages

15 May 2020

In order to improve the efficiency of fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) confinement as a method to repair and strengthen concrete structures, a parametric analysis was carried out to investigate the effects of cylinder slenderness and the stiffness of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,434 Views
25 Pages

Static Response of 2D FG Porous Plates Resting on Elastic Foundation Using Midplane and Neutral Surfaces with Movable Constraints

  • Ammar Melaibari,
  • Salwa A. Mohamed,
  • Amr E. Assie,
  • Rabab A. Shanab and
  • Mohamed A. Eltaher

15 December 2022

The current manuscript develops a novel mathematical formulation to portray the static deflection of a bi-directional functionally graded (BDFG) porous plate resting on an elastic foundation. The correctness of the static response produced by middle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,315 Views
19 Pages

The Study of Localized Crack-Induced Effects of Nonlinear Vibro-Acoustic Modulation

  • Dariusz Broda,
  • Krzysztof Mendrok,
  • Vadim V. Silberschmidt,
  • Lukasz Pieczonka and
  • Wieslaw J. Staszewski

16 February 2023

The nonlinear interaction of longitudinal vibration and ultrasound in beams with cracks is investigated. The central focus is on the localization effect of this interaction, i.e., the locally enhanced nonlinear vibro-acoustic modulation. Both numeric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,026 Views
21 Pages

15 November 2024

The success of image segmentation is mainly dependent on the optimal choice of thresholds. Compared to bi-level thresholding, multi-level thresholding is a more time-consuming process, so this paper utilizes the gray wolf optimizer (GWO) algorithm to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,873 Views
13 Pages

Cytotoxicity, Differentiation, and Biocompatibility of Root-End Filling: A Comprehensive Study

  • Ignacio Jimenez-Bueno,
  • Rene Garcia-Contreras,
  • Benjamin Aranda-Herrera,
  • Hiroshi Sakagami,
  • Christian Andrea Lopez-Ayuso,
  • Hiroshi Nakajima,
  • Carlos A. Jurado and
  • Hamid Nurrohman

Assessing the biocompatibility of endodontic root-end filling materials through cell line responses is both essential and of utmost importance. This study aimed to the cytotoxicity of the type of cell death through apoptosis and autophagy, and odonto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,045 Views
26 Pages

Free Vibration Characteristics of Bidirectional Graded Porous Plates with Elastic Foundations Using 2D-DQM

  • Ammar Melaibari,
  • Salwa A. Mohamed,
  • Amr E. Assie,
  • Rabab A. Shanab and
  • Mohamed A. Eltaher

22 December 2022

This manuscript develops for the first time a mathematical formulation of the dynamical behavior of bi-directional functionally graded porous plates (BDFGPP) resting on a Winkler–Pasternak foundation using unified higher-order plate theories (U...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,514 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Prediction of Two-Phase Flow through a Tube Bundle Based on Reduced-Order Model and a Void Fraction Correlation

  • Claire Dubot,
  • Cyrille Allery,
  • Vincent Melot,
  • Claudine Béghein,
  • Mourad Oulghelou and
  • Clément Bonneau

16 October 2021

Predicting the void fraction of a two-phase flow outside of tubes is essential to evaluate the thermohydraulic behaviour in steam generators. Indeed, it determines two-phase mixture properties and affects two-phase mixture velocity, which enable eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,256 Views
20 Pages

6 March 2020

The underground air tunnel system shows promising potentials for reducing energy consumption of buildings and for improving indoor thermal comfort, whereas the existing dynamic models using the computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method show computatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,569 Views
19 Pages

The Role of Radiomic Analysis and Different Machine Learning Models in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

  • Eleni Bekou,
  • Ioannis Seimenis,
  • Athanasios Tsochatzis,
  • Karafyllia Tziagkana,
  • Nikolaos Kelekis,
  • Savas Deftereos,
  • Nikolaos Courcoutsakis,
  • Michael I. Koukourakis and
  • Efstratios Karavasilis

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common malignancy in men. Precise grading is crucial for the effective treatment approaches of PCa. Machine learning (ML) applied to biparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (bpMRI) radiomics holds promise for improvi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,215 Views
24 Pages

Bianchi Type I Cosmological Models in Eddington-inspired Born–Infeld Gravity

  • Tiberiu Harko,
  • Francisco S.N. Lobo and
  • Man Kwong Mak

28 October 2014

We consider the dynamics of a barotropic cosmological fluid in an anisotropic, Bianchi type I space-time in Eddington-inspired Born–Infeld (EiBI) gravity. By assuming isotropic pressure distribution, we obtain the general solution of the field equati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
387 Views
16 Pages

Interaction Between the VNTR of the DAT1 Gene and DAT1 Methylation in Relation to Impulsivity in Combat Sports Athletes

  • Remigiusz Recław,
  • Jolanta Chmielowiec,
  • Krzysztof Chmielowiec,
  • Dariusz Larysz,
  • Agnieszka Pedrycz and
  • Anna Grzywacz

26 November 2025

Background: Dopaminergic signaling is a key mechanism in behavioral regulation and impulse control. While DAT1 promoter methylation has been linked to behavioral dysregulation in clinical groups, its role in high-functioning populations such as elite...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,156 Views
4 Pages

28 February 2018

Over a period of seven months (August 2017–February 2018), the Special Issue dedicated to “Neutrosophic Information Theory and Applications” by the “Information” journal (ISSN 2078-2489), located in Basel, Switzerland, was a success. The Guest Editor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,063 Views
12 Pages

Biparametric vs. Multiparametric MRI in the Detection of Cancer in Transperineal Targeted-Biopsy-Proven Peripheral Prostate Cancer Lesions Classified as PI-RADS Score 3 or 3+1: The Added Value of ADC Quantification

  • Elena Bertelli,
  • Michele Vizzi,
  • Chiara Marzi,
  • Sandro Pastacaldi,
  • Alberto Cinelli,
  • Martina Legato,
  • Ron Ruzga,
  • Federico Bardazzi,
  • Vittoria Valoriani and
  • Vittorio Miele
  • + 9 authors

Background: Biparametric MRI (bpMRI) has an important role in the diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa), by reducing the cost and duration of the procedure and adverse reactions. We assess the additional benefit of the ADC map in detecting prostate canc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,202 Views
13 Pages

Autosegmentation of Prostate Zones and Cancer Regions from Biparametric Magnetic Resonance Images by Using Deep-Learning-Based Neural Networks

  • Chih-Ching Lai,
  • Hsin-Kai Wang,
  • Fu-Nien Wang,
  • Yu-Ching Peng,
  • Tzu-Ping Lin,
  • Hsu-Hsia Peng and
  • Shu-Huei Shen

12 April 2021

The accuracy in diagnosing prostate cancer (PCa) has increased with the development of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI). Biparametric magnetic resonance imaging (bpMRI) was found to have a diagnostic accuracy comparable to mpMRI in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,610 Views
14 Pages

Autonomous Detection and Classification of PI-RADS Lesions in an MRI Screening Population Incorporating Multicenter-Labeled Deep Learning and Biparametric Imaging: Proof of Concept

  • David J. Winkel,
  • Christian Wetterauer,
  • Marc Oliver Matthias,
  • Bin Lou,
  • Bibo Shi,
  • Ali Kamen,
  • Dorin Comaniciu,
  • Hans-Helge Seifert,
  • Cyrill A. Rentsch and
  • Daniel T. Boll

14 November 2020

Background: Opportunistic prostate cancer (PCa) screening is a controversial topic. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proven to detect prostate cancer with a high sensitivity and specificity, leading to the idea to perform an image-guided prostate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
3,461 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2020

The below work comprises the unsteady flow and enhanced thermal transportation for Carreau nanofluids across a stretching wedge. In addition, heat source, magnetic field, thermal radiation, activation energy, and convective boundary conditions are co...

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