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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,433 Views
26 Pages

27 March 2025

Process mining facilitates the discovery, conformance, and enhancement of business processes using event logs. However, incomplete event logs and the complexities of concurrent activities present significant challenges in achieving accurate process m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Analysis of Industrial Systems Using AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,348 Views
28 Pages

21 September 2024

In process mining, an event log is a structured collection of recorded events that describes the execution of processes within an organization. The completeness of event logs is crucial for ensuring accurate and reliable process models. Incomplete ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data Science: Methods, Systems, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,897 Views
17 Pages

A Process Tree-Based Incomplete Event Log Repair Approach

  • Qiushi Wang,
  • Liye Zhang,
  • Rui Cao,
  • Na Guo,
  • Haijun Zhang and
  • Cong Liu

The low quality of business process event logs—particularly the widespread occurrence of incomplete traces—poses significant challenges to the reliability, accuracy, and efficiency of process mining analysis. In real-world scenarios, thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,184 Views
23 Pages

Discovery of Business Process Models from Incomplete Logs

  • Lili Wang,
  • Xianwen Fang and
  • Chifeng Shao

3 October 2022

The completeness of event logs and long-distance dependencies are two major challenges for process mining. Until now, most process mining methods have not been able to discover long-distance dependency and assume that the directly-follows relationshi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,271 Views
18 Pages

Process mining is a relatively new subject that builds a bridge between traditional process modeling and data mining. Process discovery is one of the most critical parts of process mining, which aims at discovering process models automatically from e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,421 Views
34 Pages

A Novel Process of Parsing Event-Log Activities for Process Mining Based on Information Content

  • Fadilul-lah Yassaanah Issahaku,
  • Xianwen Fang,
  • Sumaiya Bashiru Danwana,
  • Edem Kwedzo Bankas and
  • Ke Lu

Process mining has piqued the interest of researchers and technology manufacturers. Process mining aims to extract information from event activities and their interdependencies from events recorded by some enterprise systems. An enterprise system&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data Science: Methods, Systems, and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
124 Citations
20,536 Views
29 Pages

Event Log Preprocessing for Process Mining: A Review

  • Heidy M. Marin-Castro and
  • Edgar Tello-Leal

10 November 2021

Process Mining allows organizations to obtain actual business process models from event logs (discovery), to compare the event log or the resulting process model in the discovery task with the existing reference model of the same process (conformance...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
482 Views
22 Pages

20 July 2026

Overflow early warning during drilling requires timely interpretation of noisy, incomplete, and operation-dependent mud-logging streams. Single-threshold alarms are easy to deploy but are sensitive to pump changes and surface-tank operations, whereas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI for Sustainable Development and Production Evaluation of Unconventional Oil & Gas Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
792 Views
11 Pages

Incomplete Follow-Up and Competing Risks as Sources of Bias in Vascular Surgical Investigations

  • Andrej Udelnow,
  • Semion Smorodin,
  • Efim Sinicin,
  • Joerg Tautenhahn,
  • Joerg Herold,
  • Udo Barth and
  • Zuhir Halloul

21 October 2025

Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether incomplete follow-up and competing event risks may be associated with the clinical course after treatment and with known risk factors, such as chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CL...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clinical Advances in Aortic Disease and Revascularization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,101 Views
21 Pages

Sequence Stratigraphy and Implications for Shale Gas Exploration in the Southern Sichuan Basin, South China

  • Lingling Xu,
  • Jianghui Meng,
  • Renfang Pan,
  • Xue Yang,
  • Qimeng Sun and
  • Boyuan Zhu

In contrast to the widely used sequence stratigraphic models for passive continental margins, the stacking patterns of strata within epeiric seas, which are influenced by regional tectonic activity, may display opposing characteristics during the sam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Efficient Exploration and Development of Oil & Gas from Ocean)
  • Article
  • Open Access
457 Views
27 Pages

Integrating LLM in Business Process Management: A Conceptual Framework for Augmenting the Process Lifecycle

  • Florin Dumitriu,
  • Valerică Greavu-Șerban,
  • Sabina-Cristiana Necula and
  • Virgil-Constantin Fătu

2 September 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly relevant to Business Process Management (BPM), particularly when process knowledge is dispersed across documents, conversations, and other unstructured sources. Their probabilistic outputs, however, raise...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,604 Views
22 Pages

4 May 2025

Clustering plays a vital role in process mining as it organizes complex event logs into meaningful groups, helping to identify common patterns, outliers, and inefficiencies. This simplification enables organizations to detect bottlenecks and optimize...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fuzzy Theory Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,715 Views
11 Pages

Early and Long-Term Outcomes after On-Pump and Off-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction and a Giant Left Ventricle

  • Chen Wang,
  • Yefan Jiang,
  • Qingpeng Wang,
  • Rui Tian,
  • Dashuai Wang,
  • Xionggang Jiang,
  • Nianguo Dong,
  • Si Chen and
  • Xinzhong Chen

Introduction: No previous studies comparing the outcomes between off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (off-pump CABG, OPCAB) and on-pump CABG (ONCAB) have been performed in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) and a giant left...

(This article belongs to the Section Cardiac Surgery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
657 Views
23 Pages

Evaluating Conformance and Performance in Oncology Pathways via Telemedicine Using Process Mining: A Study in a Chilean Hospital Network

  • Matías Cornejo,
  • Esteban Chiu,
  • Daniel Capurro,
  • Sebastián Valderrama,
  • Sebastián Mondaca,
  • Tomas Merino,
  • Steffen Härtel and
  • Eric Rojas

3 August 2026

Tele-oncology expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains central to cancer care, yet evidence on guideline adherence in tele-oncology is limited, particularly in Latin America. In Chile, the Explicit Health Guarantees (GES) program man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Mining: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
662 Views
13 Pages

2 April 2026

Background: Albuminuria reflects systemic endothelial dysfunction and cardiorenal interaction in heart failure (HF), yet its short-term prognostic value in acute decompensated HF (ADHF) remains incompletely characterized. Methods: We conducted a pros...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heart Failure: Challenges and Future Options)
  • Article
  • Open Access
579 Views
30 Pages

27 February 2026

Digitalization has reshaped dental laboratory processes through digital tools and artefacts supporting clinician–laboratory collaboration; however, repeated iterations still increase coordination effort and extend delivery times. This study exa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,452 Views
19 Pages

26 December 2019

Combretastatin A1 (OXi4503) is a dual-function drug with vascular disrupting and cytotoxic properties that has exhibited single-agent anti-leukemia activity in murine xenograft models of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and in a prior Phase 1A clinical s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Personalized Medicine: Recent Progress in Cancer Therapy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
327 Views
21 Pages

24 August 2026

Reproductive efficiency determines the economic benefits of the sheep industry, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying prolificacy remain incompletely understood. To investigate transcriptomic differences associated with sheep prolificacy, we perfor...

(This article belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
242 Views
16 Pages

13 September 2026

Background/Objectives: Characterizing factors associated with intensive care unit (ICU) admission among hospitalized patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) is clinically relevant, particularly when established risk-stratification variables are incompl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Pulmonary Embolism and Thrombosis: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
494 Views
15 Pages

Oncological Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Soft Tissue Sarcoma of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: A Retrospective Single-Center Cohort Study

  • Nina Myline Engel,
  • Jendrik Hardes,
  • Evmorfia Pechlivanidou,
  • Markus Nottrott,
  • Dimosthenis Andreou,
  • Luisa Kriens,
  • Lars-Erik Podleska,
  • Bosse Rüberg,
  • Arne Streitbuerger and
  • Rodanthi Margariti

19 July 2026

Background: Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) in children, adolescents, and young adults are rare and biologically heterogeneous, and prognostic factors for local recurrence, metastasis, and survival remain incompletely defined. This study aimed to characte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue News and How Much to Improve in Management of Soft Tissue Sarcomas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Views
17 Pages

Real-World Guideline Concordance and Potential Overtreatment Following Primary Radical Hysterectomy for Early-Stage Cervical Cancer

  • Sinan Ateş,
  • Arzu Ay,
  • Gonca Büşra Çoker,
  • Nisa Gjergjizi,
  • Rona Luboteni,
  • Füsun Varol and
  • N. Cenk Sayın

14 October 2026

Background/Objectives: International guidelines recommend risk-adapted postoperative management in early-stage cervical cancer; however, the extent to which these recommendations are implemented in routine clinical practice remains incompletely chara...

(This article belongs to the Section Obstetrics & Gynecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
304 Views
12 Pages

Clinical Predictors of Relapse-Free Survival in Early Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

  • Fatma Işıl Uzel,
  • Burak Uzel,
  • Esin Yentürk and
  • Yüksel Peker

5 September 2026

Background: Relapse remains a major challenge in the long-term management of pulmonary sarcoidosis, yet predictors of relapse-free survival in patients with early-stage disease are incompletely understood. We investigated the clinical determinants of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies for Sarcoidosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
717 Views
14 Pages

26 August 2026

Background: Whether routinely available laboratory measures are associated with longitudinal bone mineral density (BMD) change in clinical practice remains uncertain, particularly when treatment exposure and other major skeletal determinants are inco...

(This article belongs to the Section Orthopedics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,364 Views
16 Pages

Subtenon Autologous Platelet-Rich Plasma in Degenerative Retinal Diseases: A Prospective Pilot Study of Safety and Exploratory Functional Signals in Retinitis Pigmentosa and EMAP

  • Rubens Camargo Siqueira,
  • Cinara Cássia Brandão,
  • Andreia Conceição de Jesus Souza,
  • Juliana Rodrigues Seixas,
  • Marisa Aparecida Balbino,
  • Luma Moreira Antunes,
  • Charles Muniz de Oliveira,
  • Tainara Souza Pinho and
  • Patrícia Fischer Cruz

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of repeated subtenon administration of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in patients with degenerative retinal diseases and to explore preliminary, hypothesis-generating functional observations in r...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular and Translational Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Views
11 Pages

12 October 2026

Background: Older adults with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) are underrepresented in prospective studies, and treatment selection is influenced by frailty, comorbidity, disease burden, and clinician assessment. We evaluated treatment patterns, opera...

(This article belongs to the Section Obstetrics & Gynecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
436 Views
25 Pages

Configuration-Aware Bayesian Shelf Inference for Mobile RFID Library Inventory

  • Sherzod Mukhammadjonov,
  • Marat Rakhmatullayev and
  • Husniya Boysunova

Mobile RFID inventory in libraries must be planned and evaluated under noisy observations, configuration-dependent read regimes, and incomplete supervision. This paper presents an uncertainty-aware analytics framework for robot-assisted RFID inventor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,466 Views
25 Pages

4 March 2026

Background/Objectives: Sepsis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality due to its rapid progression and variability in care delivery. While existing predictive models estimate sepsis risk using clinical variables, they typically rely on static a...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,034 Views
13 Pages

Distinct CMR Phenotype in Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy: Greater Myocardial Fibrosis and Right Ventricular Dysfunction Compared with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

  • Víctor Vallejo-García,
  • Manuel Barreiro-Pérez,
  • David González-Calle,
  • María del Carmen León del Pino,
  • Victoria Jacas-Osborn,
  • Carlos Barrios and
  • Óscar Fabregat-Andrés

Background/Objectives: Alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a major preventable cause of non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), yet its specific cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) remains incompletely defined. We aimed to characterize the CMR features...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
742 Views
24 Pages

Constructivist Paths in Teaching Physics: Electrostatics

  • Anna Kamińska,
  • Helena Nowakowska and
  • Grzegorz Piotr Karwasz

We propose an interactive approach to teaching Coulomb’s law and electrostatics in general, rooted in two complementary pedagogical methodologies: hyper-constructivism (H-C) and neo-realism. Unlike standard constructivism, our hyper-constructiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
9 Pages

Admission BNP as a Dominant Prognostic Signal in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure with Frequent Renal Dysfunction: An Exploratory Multivariable Analysis

  • Muneera O. AlTaweel,
  • Elbadri I. Abdelgadir,
  • Shahinaz Mohamed,
  • Khamess O. Khamees,
  • Waleed Gado and
  • Lulwah Al Turki

29 June 2026

Background: Risk stratification for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) at admission remains clinically challenging, particularly in patients with concomitant renal dysfunction. Although B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a well-established bio...

(This article belongs to the Section Cardiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
581 Views
16 Pages

Background/Objectives: Optimal vascular access remains a critical determinant of outcomes in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. While an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is generally preferred over an arteriovenous graft (AVG), the impact of ob...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nephrotic Syndrome: Pathomechanism, Diagnostics and Novel Treatment Options—2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
862 Views
15 Pages

Longitudinal Adipokine and Lipid Profiles in Fabry Disease

  • Constantin Gatterer,
  • Daniela Allmer,
  • Dietrich Beitzke,
  • Senta Graf,
  • Philipp Hohensinner,
  • Markus Ponleitner,
  • Eva Steinacher,
  • Alice Schmidt,
  • Gere Sunder-Plassmann and
  • Max Lenz
  • + 1 author

20 March 2026

Background/Objectives: Fabry disease (FD) is a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by progressive renal and cardiac involvement and an increased burden of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. While cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Cardiomyopathies: Diagnosis, Treatment and Management—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
12 Pages

Impact of Active Surveillance Versus Chemotherapy on Recurrence in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: A Propensity Score–Weighted Analysis

  • Ismail Onder Yılmaz,
  • Mehmet Zubaroğlu,
  • Sevinç Püren Yücel,
  • Seyda Erdogan,
  • Mehmet Gürkan Arıkan,
  • Nebil Akdoğan,
  • Mutlu Değer and
  • Volkan Izol

4 August 2026

Background: Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) are the most common solid malignancies in young men. In real-world clinical practice, non-random treatment allocation may result in confounding by indication, as patients with a greater disease burden a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Clinical Management of Urological Cancers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
641 Views
47 Pages

Purpose-aware AI systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical, multi-agent, and human-facing environments, where they must transform heterogeneous data into timely, explainable, and goal-aligned decisions under uncertainty. Existing architect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Models and Cognitive Computing: Innovations from Algorithms to Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Prospective External Validation of the HFA-ICOS Baseline Cardiovascular Risk Classification in Women with Breast Cancer Receiving Anthracycline-Containing Therapy in a Central Asian Cohort

  • Aiganym Amanova,
  • Bekbolat Zholdin,
  • Saule Balmagambetova,
  • Iliada Talipova,
  • Gulnara Kurmanalina,
  • Saule Madinova,
  • Mira Baspayeva,
  • Kulparshan Kubenova,
  • Gulmira Sultanbekova and
  • Zhenisgul Tlegenova
  • + 1 author
Diagnostics2026, 16(20), 3379;https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics16203379 
(registering DOI)

17 October 2026

Background/Objectives: The HFA-ICOS baseline cardiovascular risk classification was developed to standardize pretreatment risk stratification before potentially cardiotoxic cancer therapy, but its external performance across diverse populations remai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision Medicine in Cardiology: Applications in Risk Stratification, Diagnostics, Prognosis, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,378 Views
11 Pages

Low-Malignant-Potential Adenocarcinoma: A Histological Category with a Significantly Better Prognosis than Other Solid Adenocarcinomas at IA Stage

  • Marco Chiappetta,
  • Alessandra Cancellieri,
  • Filippo Lococo,
  • Elisa Meacci,
  • Carolina Sassorossi,
  • Maria Teresa Congedo,
  • Qianqian Zhang,
  • Diomira Tabacco,
  • Isabella Sperduti and
  • Stefano Margaritora

Introduction: Low-malignant-potential adenocarcinoma has been defined as a type of non-mucinous tumor, which has a total tumor size measuring ≤ 3 cm, exhibits ≥ 15% lepidic growth, lacks non-predominant high-grade patterns (≥10% cribriform,...

(This article belongs to the Section Thoracic Oncology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Views
24 Pages

Dexmedetomidine Versus Dexamethasone in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial of Inflammatory Biomarkers and Opioid Consumption

  • Mohamed A. Salama,
  • Fatma K. Al Dammas,
  • Abdullah AlDhuwaihy,
  • Khalid Alanezi,
  • Faisal Alshuwaier,
  • Naif Almedlej,
  • Hosam AbdelTwab,
  • Noha ElTantawi,
  • Rami A. Sabri and
  • Yahya F. Jamous
  • + 1 author

15 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) triggers a systemic inflammatory response in children undergoing congenital heart surgery. Although dexmedetomidine has been proposed as an alternative to corticosteroids, the two agents have not pr...