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CT Imaging Features of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Typical and Atypical Radiological Features and Their Differential Diagnosis

  • Elisa Baratella,
  • Valeria di Luca,
  • Alessandra Oliva,
  • Ilaria Fiorese,
  • Antonio Segalotti,
  • Marina Troian,
  • Stefano Lovadina,
  • Barbara Ruaro,
  • Francesco Salton and
  • Maria Assunta Cova
  • + 1 author

25 November 2025

Sarcoidosis is a chronic, idiopathic, multisystemic inflammatory disease characterized by non-caseating granulomas, most commonly affecting the lungs and mediastinal lymph nodes. Radiological imaging plays a fundamental role in the diagnosis, assessm...

(This article belongs to the Section Pulmonology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,133 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2025

The purpose of multi-modal visual information fusion is to integrate the data of multi-sensors to generate an image with higher quality, more information, and greater clarity so that it contains more complementary information and fewer redundant feat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
760 Views
27 Pages

15 July 2025

This work presents the “First-Order Features Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Neural Integro-Differential Equations of Fredholm-Type” (1st-FASAM-NIDE-F) and the “Second-Order Features Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodo...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,792 Views
23 Pages

25 November 2024

This work introduces the mathematical framework of the novel “First-Order Features Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Neural Ordinary Differential Equations” (1st-FASAM-NODE). The 1st-FASAM-NODE methodology produces and computes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
603 Views
22 Pages

16 July 2025

This work illustrates the application of the “First-Order Features Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Neural Integro-Differential Equations of Fredholm-Type” (1st-FASAM-NIDE-F) and the “Second-Order Features Adjoint Sensit...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,061 Views
52 Pages

This work presents the mathematical frameworks of the “First-Order Features Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Neural Integro-Differential Equations of Volterra-Type” (1st-FASAM-NIDE-V) and the “Second-Order Features Adjoi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,391 Views
37 Pages

4 December 2024

This work presents an illustrative application of the newly developed “Second-Order Features Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (2nd-FASAM-NODE)” methodology to determine most efficiently t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,912 Views
28 Pages

A Hybrid Binary Dragonfly Algorithm with an Adaptive Directed Differential Operator for Feature Selection

  • Yilin Chen,
  • Bo Gao,
  • Tao Lu,
  • Hui Li,
  • Yiqi Wu,
  • Dejun Zhang and
  • Xiangyun Liao

11 August 2023

Feature selection is a typical multiobjective problem including two conflicting objectives. In classification, feature selection aims to improve or maintain classification accuracy while reducing the number of selected features. In practical applicat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advancements in Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,079 Views
20 Pages

16 October 2025

Symmetry plays a critical role in preserving the structural balance and statistical integrity of datasets, particularly in privacy-preserving machine learning. Differential privacy introduces random noise to individual data points to ensure privacy w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Symmetry/Asymmetry in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Metaheuristics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,580 Views
23 Pages

1 June 2023

To extract effective features for the terrain classification of hyperspectral remote-sensing images (HRSIs), a spectral fractional-differentiation (SFD) feature of HRSIs is presented, and a criterion for selecting the fractional-differentiation order...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
194 Views
28 Pages

22 September 2026

Feature selection can effectively remove redundant and irrelevant features in classification tasks; however, feature subset search on datasets with different dimensionalities still faces challenges such as strong initialization randomness, complex se...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
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  • Open Access
97 Citations
8,472 Views
17 Pages

A Feature Extraction Method Based on Differential Entropy and Linear Discriminant Analysis for Emotion Recognition

  • Dong-Wei Chen,
  • Rui Miao,
  • Wei-Qi Yang,
  • Yong Liang,
  • Hao-Heng Chen,
  • Lan Huang,
  • Chun-Jian Deng and
  • Na Han

5 April 2019

Feature extraction of electroencephalography (EEG) signals plays a significant role in the wearable computing field. Due to the practical applications of EEG emotion calculation, researchers often use edge calculation to reduce data transmission time...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,086 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images Semantic Segmentation Based on Differential Feature Attention Fusion

  • Di Zhang,
  • Peicheng Yue,
  • Yuhang Yan,
  • Qianqian Niu,
  • Jiaqi Zhao and
  • Huifang Ma

17 December 2024

Multi-source remote sensing image semantic segmentation can provide more detailed feature attribute information, making it an important research field for remote sensing intelligent interpretation. However, due to the complexity of remote sensing sce...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,261 Views
21 Pages

1 February 2024

The selection of critical features from microarray data as biomarkers holds significant importance in disease diagnosis and drug development. It is essential to reduce the number of biomarkers while maintaining their performance to effectively minimi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Biological Data and Biological Systems)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,067 Views
21 Pages

Optimization algorithms play a crucial role in solving complex problems across various fields, including global optimization and feature selection (FS). This paper presents the enhanced polar lights optimization with cryptobiosis and differential evo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
320 Views
23 Pages

An Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm Using Mahalanobis Distance and Cholesky Decomposition for Wrapper-Based Feature Selection

  • Angel Casas-Ordaz,
  • Diego Oliva,
  • Marco Pérez-Cisneros,
  • Guillermo Sosa-Gómez,
  • Itzel Aranguren and
  • Arturo Valdivia-G

In machine learning, feature selection is a fundamental component that plays a crucial role in improving prediction accuracy and reducing the computational time of classification models. Feature selection involves eliminating irrelevant or redundant...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,253 Views
19 Pages

Feature Selection by Binary Differential Evolution for Predicting the Energy Production of a Wind Plant

  • Sameer Al-Dahidi,
  • Piero Baraldi,
  • Miriam Fresc,
  • Enrico Zio and
  • Lorenzo Montelatici

18 May 2024

We propose a method for selecting the optimal set of weather features for wind energy prediction. This problem is tackled by developing a wrapper approach that employs binary differential evolution to search for the best feature subset, and an ensemb...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,659 Views
12 Pages

Differentiating Liver Metastases from Primary Liver Cancer: A Retrospective Study of Imaging and Pathological Features in Patients with Histopathological Confirmation

  • Laura Andreea Ghenciu,
  • Mirela Loredana Grigoras,
  • Luminioara Maria Rosu,
  • Sorin Lucian Bolintineanu,
  • Laurentiu Sima and
  • Octavian Cretu

Background and Objectives: This study aimed to identify and analyze imaging and pathological features that differentiate liver metastases from primary liver cancer in patients with histopathological confirmation, and to evaluate the diagnostic accura...

(This article belongs to the Section Cancer Biology and Oncology)
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  • Open Access

21 October 2026

Transparent curved surfaces of glass packaging bottles produce structural responses that can obscure local appearance asymmetries associated with defects, complicating their segmentation across different scales and shapes. To address these challenges...

(This article belongs to the Topic Image Processing, Signal Processing and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
533 Views
24 Pages

FDWD-Net: Feature-Decoupled and Window-Differentiated Network for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution

  • Yinghua Li,
  • Ting Fan,
  • Yining Zhang,
  • Xiwen Yang,
  • Jian Xu and
  • Kaichen Chi

25 April 2026

Super-resolution reconstruction of remote sensing images has significant application value in fields such as smart cities, land monitoring, and traffic management. However, current super-resolution methods often overlook the differences between seman...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
278 Views
21 Pages

7 September 2026

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images remains challenging because of severe speckle noise, low tissue contrast, ambiguous boundaries, and substantial variations in lesion morphology and scale. To address these limitations, we propose RDPA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Optimization and Applications in Computer Vision)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,038 Views
18 Pages

Computational Cost Reduction in Multi-Objective Feature Selection Using Permutational-Based Differential Evolution

  • Jesús-Arnulfo Barradas-Palmeros,
  • Efrén Mezura-Montes,
  • Rafael Rivera-López,
  • Hector-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa and
  • Aldo Márquez-Grajales

Feature selection is a preprocessing step in machine learning that aims to reduce dimensionality and improve performance. The approaches for feature selection are often classified according to the evaluation of a subset of features as filter, wrapper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization 2024)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,300 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2018

Change detection (CD) of natural land cover is important for environmental protection and to maintain an ecological balance. The Landsat series of satellites provide continuous observation of the Earth’s surface and is sensitive to reflection o...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,751 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2023

The automatic identification of emotions from speech holds significance in facilitating interactions between humans and machines. To improve the recognition accuracy of speech emotion, we extract mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and pitch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Applications of Explainable AI (XAI))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
366 Views
38 Pages

A Prior-Guided Structure-Aware Multi-Objective Differential Evolution Method for High-Dimensional Feature Selection

  • Gaoxiang Huang,
  • Jigen Luo,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Qiang Huang,
  • Jia He,
  • Huan Li,
  • Zixuan Liu,
  • Jiahe Cai and
  • Jianqiang Du

17 September 2026

Multi-objective feature selection provides an effective framework for high-dimensional data analysis by jointly considering classification performance and feature subset size. However, redundant and irrelevant features may degrade the quality of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Feature Selection and Feature Reduction)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,647 Views
27 Pages

Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Botnet Detection Using Differential Evolution for Optimized Feature Selection

  • Sangita Baruah,
  • Vaskar Deka,
  • Dulumani Das,
  • Utpal Barman and
  • Manob Jyoti Saikia

With the growing prevalence of cybercrime, botnets have emerged as a significant threat, infiltrating an increasing number of legitimate computers annually. Challenges arising for organizations, educational institutions, and individuals as a result o...

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  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,594 Views
17 Pages

5 July 2019

To date, the usage of electromyography (EMG) signals in myoelectric prosthetics allows patients to recover functional rehabilitation of their upper limbs. However, the increment in the number of EMG features has been shown to have a great impact on p...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,874 Views
13 Pages

10 April 2023

Cognitive dysfunction is a frequent complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), usually accompanied by metabolic disorders. However, the metabolic changes in diabetic cognitive dysfunction (DCD) patients, especially compared to T2DM groups, are...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism)
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  • Open Access
564 Views
44 Pages

31 August 2026

Transformer architectures, originally developed for language modeling, have been increasingly applied to time-series forecasting, but deploying them on sensitive data such as patient vital signs, financial records, or energy use raises privacy risks...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,373 Views
28 Pages

30 January 2020

Paramyxovirus (PMV) entry requires the coordinated action of two envelope glycoproteins, the receptor binding protein (RBP) and fusion protein (F). The sequence of events that occurs during the PMV entry process is tightly regulated. This regulation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Entry Pathways)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,070 Views
37 Pages

22 November 2024

Background: In recent years, microarray datasets have been used to store information about human genes and methods used to express the genes in order to successfully diagnose cancer disease in the early stages. However, most of the microarray dataset...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research and Care)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,582 Views
16 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Evolution and Regional Differentiation Features of Urbanization in China from 2003 to 2013

  • Peiyu Zhang,
  • Jianjun Pan,
  • Longtao Xie,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Haoran Bai and
  • Yanxiang Zhu

Quantifying the temporal and spatial patterns of impervious surfaces (IS) is important for assessing the environmental and ecological impacts of urbanization. In order to better extract IS, and to explore the divergence in urbanization in different r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Data Science for Urban Studies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,019 Views
11 Pages

20 March 2023

The critical analysis of the new experimental data obtained by the ATLAS Collaboration group at 13 TeV is presented and the problem of the tension between data of the ATLAS and TOTEM Collaborations is considered. The analysis of new effects discovere...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
38,304 Views
18 Pages

Acne-like Eruptions: Disease Features and Differential Diagnosis

  • Ena Parać,
  • Bruno Špiljak,
  • Liborija Lugović-Mihić and
  • Zrinka Bukvić Mokos

The term “acne-like eruptions” encompasses a variety of skin conditions resembling acne vulgaris. While both acne-like dermatoses and true acne are frequently observed in clinical settings, differentiating between the two might be challen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Cosmetics in 2023)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,476 Views
15 Pages

Differential Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Sarcoidosis by Immunological Features Using Machine Learning

  • Nikolay Osipov,
  • Igor Kudryavtsev,
  • Dmitry Spelnikov,
  • Artem Rubinstein,
  • Ekaterina Belyaeva,
  • Anastasia Kulpina,
  • Dmitry Kudlay and
  • Anna Starshinova

30 September 2024

Despite the achievements of modern medicine, tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of mortality globally. The difficulties in differential diagnosis have particular relevance in the case of suspicion of tuberculosis with other granulomatous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnosing Respiratory Diseases and Impaired Gas Exchange Using Machine Learning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,643 Views
32 Pages

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Phenocopies: Classification, Key Features, and Differential Diagnosis

  • Lucio Teresi,
  • Giancarlo Trimarchi,
  • Roberto Licordari,
  • Davide Restelli,
  • Giovanni Taverna,
  • Paolo Liotta,
  • Antonino Micari,
  • Ignazio Smecca,
  • Gregory Dendramis and
  • Gianluca Di Bella
  • + 8 authors

12 December 2025

Among cardiomyopathies, the hypertrophic phenotype is the most common, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) phenocopies represent a heterogeneous group of conditions. They are defined by a left ventricular wall thickness ≥15 mm in the absence of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Arrhythmias (3rd Edition))
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  • Open Access
52 Views
24 Pages

DP-RVFL: A Differentially Private Randomized-Feature Neural Model for Privacy–Utility Efficient Learning

  • Emad T. Elkabbash,
  • Alshaimaa Abo-Alian,
  • Tamer Abdelkader and
  • Mohamed Hashem

18 October 2026

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) enables neural network training with formal privacy guarantees, but its utility depends on model architecture, data modality, and privacy budget. DP-RVFL freezes random hidden features and p...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
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  • Open Access
307 Views
24 Pages

7 September 2026

Fast and accurate recognition of basic waveforms is important in embedded sensing, signal testing, and hardware measurement systems, especially under strict constraints on computation, memory, and power consumption. To address this problem, this pape...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
581 Views
20 Pages

28 May 2026

To address misclassification and reduced accuracy in semantic change detection caused by class imbalance and variable object sizes, this paper improves BGSNet and proposes a new change detection network, SRDFNet (Semantic Refinement and Differential...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,428 Views
27 Pages

22 October 2019

In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars—both in the form of axiomatic features and larger combined representational units—are not easily lost over the course of the lifespan. This view contrasts with altern...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,512 Views
44 Pages

Burkitt Lymphoma—A Guide to Biological Features, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis

  • Ioannis Anagnostopoulos,
  • Alberto Zamò,
  • Heike Horn,
  • Annette Staiger and
  • German Ott

10 February 2026

Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is an aggressive mature B-cell lymphoma that represents one of the most studied human malignancies. Initially described in equatorial Africa by the Irish surgeon Denis P. Burkitt, African (endemic) Burkitt lymphoma was the first...

(This article belongs to the Section Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,153 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2019

To improve the recognition accuracy of ship-radiated noise, a feature extraction method based on regenerated phase-shifted sinusoid-assisted empirical mode decomposition (RPSEMD), mutual information (MI), and differential symbolic entropy (DSE) is pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,445 Views
32 Pages

In large-capacity energy storage systems, instructions are decomposed typically using an equalized power distribution strategy, where clusters/modules operate at the same power and durations. When dispatching shifts from stable single conditions to i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control and Optimization of Battery Energy Storage Systems)
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  • Open Access
2,417 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2025

Background: Esophageal strictures lacking typical malignant endoscopic features present a significant diagnostic challenge, often mimicking malignancy on imaging while concealing their true nature under regular white-light endoscopy. This study evalu...

(This article belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,978 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2021

COVID-19 pneumonia represents a challenging health emergency, due to the disproportion between the high transmissibility, morbidity, and mortality of the virus and healthcare systems possibilities. Literature has mainly focused on COVID-19 pneumonia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,086 Views
13 Pages

22 March 2022

As an emerging artificial intelligence technology, federated learning plays a significant role in privacy preservation in machine learning, although its main objective is to prevent peers from peeping data. However, attackers from the outside can ste...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,006 Views
12 Pages

Feasibility of Differential Dose—Volume Histogram Features in Multivariate Prediction Model for Radiation Pneumonitis Occurrence

  • Yoshiyuki Katsuta,
  • Noriyuki Kadoya,
  • Yuto Sugai,
  • Yu Katagiri,
  • Takaya Yamamoto,
  • Kazuya Takeda,
  • Shohei Tanaka and
  • Keiichi Jingu

The purpose of this study is to introduce differential dose–volume histogram (dDVH) features into machine learning for radiation pneumonitis (RP) prediction and to demonstrate the predictive performance of the developed model based on integrate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lesion Detection and Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,643 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2024

Image fusion is the generation of an informative image that contains complementary information from the original sensor images, such as texture details and attentional targets. Existing methods have designed a variety of feature extraction algorithms...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,486 Views
13 Pages

16 July 2024

The high-accuracy detection of multiple distinct human emotions is crucial for advancing affective computing, mental health diagnostics, and human–computer interaction. The integration of deep learning networks with entropy measures holds signi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Affective Computing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3,209 Views
36 Pages

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features of Hepatic Hydatid Disease: A Pictorial Review with Emphasis on Atypical Presentations and Differential Diagnosis

  • Jelena Djokic Kovač,
  • Aleksandra Đikić-Rom,
  • Aleksandra Janković,
  • Nikica Grubor,
  • Aleksandra Đurić-Stefanović,
  • Aleksandar Bogdanović,
  • Milica Mitrović,
  • Ognjan Skrobić,
  • Andrija Antić and
  • Nemanja Bidžić
  • + 3 authors

Hepatic echinococcosis, caused by Echinococcus species, remains a significant global health concern, with cystic echinococcosis (CE) being widespread and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) representing a rarer but more aggressive form. CE generally demonst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Detection and Characterization of Focal Lesions in the Solid Abdominal Organs)

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