Repeatability and reproducibility of any measuring system must be evaluated to assess possible limitations for its use. The objective of this study was to establish the repeatability and the inter-operator reproducibility of a sensors-based system (E...
This study investigated the reliability of measuring the median nerve cross-sectional area (CSA) at the carpal tunnel inlet using a handheld ultrasound device (HUD) compared to a standard ultrasound system, focusing on intra- and inter-operator repro...
Background/Objectives: Accurate urinary bladder (UB) volume measurement is essential for diagnosing urinary retention, evaluating post-void residuals, and guiding catheterization decisions. Conventional 2D ultrasound and automated non-visual bladder...
Background: Luminex-based single antigen bead assays are widely used for HLA antibody assessment in transplantation, but their semi-quantitative fluorescence outputs may be affected by technical, signal-dependent, and bead-specific factors. This sing...
Background: Body composition assessment is important in professional football as a measure of overall adaptation of the athlete to the training demand and calorie intake. However, it is operator-dependent, relying on subject positioning and the focus...
Public EEG-based brain–computer interface (BCI) datasets are expanding rapidly, yet differences in sensors, experimental protocols, task/event semantics, preprocessing, participant context, and evaluation limit reproducibility and cross-dataset...
Ordered categorical sequence analysis is distributed across specialist methods and software, making preparation decisions, method settings, diagnostics, and provenance difficult to inspect consistently across an end-to-end workflow. This paper presen...
Minimal residual disease (MRD) status is now considered as one of the most relevant prognostic factors in multiple myeloma (MM) while MRD negativity became an important endpoint in clinical trials. Here, we report the results of the first study evalu...
Background: Early identification of fetal gender is crucial for managing gender-linked genetic disorders. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive performance of anogenital distance (AGD) and genital tubercle angle (GTA) for fetal sex determinatio...
Background/Objectives: Breast cancer recurrence risk stratification has relied on gene expression tests that are limited by long turnaround times and consumption of valuable tissue. Artificial intelligence (AI) utilizing digital pathology images eluc...
Ultrasound examination using the Graf method is widely applied for early detection of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), but intra- and inter-operator variability remains a limitation. This study aimed to quantify operator variability in hip u...
The dental pulp chamber volume is a fundamental measurement in the field of endodontics, but also in forensic sciences, teaching and training, or tissue engineering. This study evaluates the precision of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in compar...
Background and Objectives: A consensus regarding the optimal sonographic technique for measuring vaginal wall thickness (VWT) is still absent in the literature. This study aims to validate a new method for measuring VWT using a biplanar transvaginal...
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This study investigates the reliability and precision of anthropometric measurements collected from 3D images and acquired under different conditions of head rotation. Various sources of error were examined, and the equivalence between craniofacial d...
Sequencing of whole microbial genomes has become a standard procedure for cluster detection, source tracking, outbreak investigation and surveillance of many microorganisms. An increasing number of laboratories are currently in a transition phase fro...
Digital catalogs of ocean data have been available for decades, but advances in standardized services and software for catalog searches and data access now make it possible to create catalog-driven workflows that automate—end-to-end—data search, anal...
Alterations in cartilage thickness (CTh) are a hallmark of knee osteoarthritis, which remain difficult to characterize at high resolution, even with modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), due to a paucity of standardization tools. This study aimed...
Purpose: To compare the reliability and performance of Supersonic shear wave elastography (S-SWE) and Toshiba shear wave elastography (T-SWE) in the diagnosis of biliary atresia (BA) and assessment of liver fibrosis among jaundiced infants suspected...
Background: The role of diaphragmatic function in transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) remains poorly understood. This study aimed to compare diaphragmatic ultrasound parameters between neonates with TTN requiring non-invasive ventilation (NIV) a...
Ultrasonography has been proposed as a complementary tool for the evaluation of udder health, yet limited information exists on its application for measuring the glandular cistern area during mastitis. This study aimed to investigate modifications of...
Analysis of marginal adaptation of dental adhesive interfaces using scanning electron microscopy has proven to be a powerful nondestructive method to evaluate the quality of adhesion. This methodology is, however, time-consuming and needs expensive e...
This study aimed to evaluate the utility of a 3D-printed, weight-bearing auxiliary device designed to improve reproducibility and facilitate detector fixation during axiolateral radiography of hip joints known to be affected by inter-operator variabi...
Selected patients with early-stage melanoma have a “hidden high risk” of poor oncologic outcomes. They might benefit from clinical trials, and ultimately, if warranted by trial results, judicious everyday use of adjuvant therapy. A promis...
Autosomal dominant polycystic renal disease (ADPKD) is the most frequent kidney inheritable disease, characterized by the presence of numerous bilateral renal cysts, causing a progressive increase in total kidney volume (TKV) and a progressive loss o...
Background: Fetal Heart Quantification (FetalHQ) enables detailed assessment of fetal cardiac morphology and function using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography. However, previous studies have focused primarily on conventional reproducib...
This study provides a practical and replicable improvement model for productivity and inspection reliability improvement in resource-constrained food logistics environments. This study presents an engineering-based optimization of productivity and pr...
Purpose: The Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria for lower-grade gliomas (LGGs) define tumor progression as ≥25% change in the T2/FLAIR signal area based on an operator’s discretion of the perpendicular diameter of the larg...
Background/Objectives: Accurate quantification of alveolar cleft defects for bone grafting remains difficult due to inconsistent anatomical boundaries. This study established an expert consensus on boundary landmarks for alveolar bone graft (ABG) pla...
Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn) is increasingly recognized as a cancer-associated bacterium, yet reliable quantification in human specimens is challenging due to low bacterial burden and abundant host DNA. We analyzed 145 Fusobacterium genomes to design...
This paper considers the main principles and technologies used in developing the operational modeling system for the Ussuri River Basin of 24,400 km2 based on the automated system of hydrological monitoring and data management (ASHM), the physical-ma...
(1) Background: Assessment of right ventricular (RV) function has become increasingly important in echocardiography due to its prognostic significance in cardiac and systemic diseases. (2) Objectives: Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE...
Background/Objectives: Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) is a global health crisis, but current diagnostics are limited. Liver biopsy is invasive, magnetic resonance imaging-proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF) is exp...
Oxidized low-density lipoproteins play an important role in tissue pathology. In this study, we report a sensitive novel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of malondialdehyde-modified low-density lipoprotein (MDA-LDL), a key componen...
The aim of the present study is to present a repeatable, reproductible, and accurate morphometric measurement method for measuring and quantifying the area and volume of cement that remains after fixed lingual multibracket appliance debonding, enamel...
A polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-based tissue-mimicking polymer phantom was developed and mechanically characterised to replicate stiffness ranges relevant to breast elastography and to provide a controlled platform for evaluating shear wave elastography (...
Echocardiography is a cornerstone technique for evaluating cardiac function in preclinical research using murine models. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the echocardiographic approaches employed to assess ventricular function in mous...
Ultrasound attenuation imaging (ATI) is a non-invasive method for quantifying hepatic steatosis, offering advantages over the hepatorenal index (HRI). However, its reliability can be influenced by factors such as measurement depth, ROI size, and subc...
We derived reference values of left-ventricular (LV) and right-ventricular (RV) strain parameters in a cohort of 100 healthy subjects by feature tracking cardiac magnetic resonance (FT-CMR). Global and regional strain values were calculated for the L...
Background/Objectives: The A-Palp enables a calibrated anatomical systems technique (CAST) approach. Previous studies have demonstrated repeatability and concurrent validity for selected spinal curvature angles in patients with scoliosis. However, th...
The widespread use of the lung ultrasound (LUS) has not been followed by the development of a comprehensive standardized tool for its reporting in the intensive care unit (ICU) which could be useful to promote consistency and reproducibility during c...
Purpose: Myocardial iron overload has been demonstrated to have a heterogeneous distribution. A segmental T2* CMR approach, with correction factors applied to account for artifacts, has been demonstrated to be feasible and has permitted a reduction i...
Background: To investigate the accuracy and reproducibility of digital measurements of Little’s Irregularity Index and to evaluate if different degrees of dental crowding could influence these measurements. Methods: The study included 40 dental...
This study investigates performance overheads and security threats in 6th Generation Mobile Communication (6G) roaming environments, which are expected to enable services such as autonomous driving, smart cities, and remote healthcare that demand ult...
Soil arthropods play a crucial role in soil functioning, contributing to organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling, soil structure formation, and microbial regulation. The Soil Biological Quality index based on arthropods (QBS-ar) is widely used...
The hospital-at-home (HaH) model delivers hospital-level care to patients in their homes, with point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) serving as a cornerstone diagnostic tool for respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia. This review—the third in...
Supracondylar fractures of the humerus are frequent paediatric injuries. The aims of this study were to evaluate the applicability and reproducibility of the Gartland and Wilkins classification, the Baumann angle (BA) and the Anterior Humeral Line (A...
Background: This study evaluates the repeatability and reproducibility of fat-fraction percentage (FF%) in whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) of prostate cancer patients with bone metastatic hormone naive disease. Methods: Patients were s...
The use of simulated environments for the development and validation of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) has proven to be an effective approach for reducing costs and accelerating the testing process. Simulated environments offer a safe and controlle...
Background/Objectives: Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV)-vectored vaccines represent a versatile platform for the development of vaccines against infectious diseases. Replication-competent recombinant VSV vectors in which the native glycoprotein (G) i...
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the consistency and reproducibility of attenuation coefficient (AC) measurements using different commercial ultrasound (US) across via a phantom experiment to investigate the relationship between the A...
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