Vehicles carrying hazardous material (hazmat) are severe threats to the safety of highway transportation, and a model that can automatically recognize hazmat markers installed or attached on vehicles is essential for intelligent management systems. H...
Simple methods using the striped pattern paper marker and FFT (fast Fourier transformation) have been proposed as alternatives to measuring the optical density for determining the level of bacterial growth. The marker-based method can be easily autom...
Deep learning-based marker detection for autonomous drone landing is widely studied, due to its superior detection performance. However, no study was reported to address non-uniform motion-blurred input images, and most of the previous handcrafted an...
In augmented reality (AR), audio markers can be alternatives to image markers for rendering virtual objects when an AR device camera fails to identify the image marker due to lighting conditions and/or the distance between the marker and device. Howe...
Lane detection is a critical component of autonomous driving assistance systems (ADASs), playing a pivotal role in ensuring road safety and orderly vehicle movement. In regions like Southeast Asia, characterized by high rainfall, the challenge of det...
UAVs have been widely used in deformation monitoring because of their high availability and flexibility. However, the quality of UAV images is affected by changing attitude and surveying environments, resulting in a low monitoring accuracy. Cross-sha...
To prevent collapse accidents at construction sites, the marker-based displacement measurement method was developed. However, it has difficulty in obtaining accurate measurements at long distances (>50 m) in an outdoor environment because of camer...
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is an important broad-spectrum tumor marker. The quantitative detection of a low concentration of CEA has important medical significance. In this study, three-dimensional porous graphene-oxide-supported platinum metal n...
Bacterial leaf scorch (BLS), caused by Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), is a prevalent disease of blueberries in the southeastern United States. Initially, this disease was reported to be caused by X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex (Xfm). However, a recent surv...
Detection of tumor markers is of great significance to preliminarily judge whether patients have malignant tumors. Fluorescence detection (FD) is an effective means to achieve sensitive detection of tumor markers. Currently, the increased sensitivity...
Early detection of bladder cancer has a positive impact on prognosis. A variety of biomarkers have been developed to detect bladder tumors in urine early and reduce the need for cystoscopy. To detect bladder cancer, several methods are available, but...
Food adulteration is a challenge faced by consumers and researchers. Due to DNA fragmentation during oil processing, it is necessary to discover metabolic markers alternative to DNA for adulteration detection of edible oils. However, the contents of...
Cyclospora cayetanensis is a coccidian parasite that causes diarrheal illness outbreaks worldwide. The development of new laboratory methods for detection of C. cayetanensis is of critical importance because of the high potential for environmental sa...
Marker-based motion capture systems using infrared cameras (IR MoCaps) are commonly employed in biomechanical research. However, their high costs pose challenges for many institutions seeking to implement such systems. This study aims to develop a ne...
One of the most significant characteristics, which biosensors are supposed to satisfy, is robustness against abundant molecules coexisting with target biomolecules. In clinical diagnoses and biosensing, blood, plasma, and serum are used daily as samp...
Cancer constitutes a category of diseases with high mortality rates, where early and precise detection plays a crucial role in diagnosis and treatment. Tumour markers are biomolecules produced during cancer progression, predominantly inert molecules...
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) contains allergenic proteins, which make it harmful to the sensitised population. The presence of peanut in foods must be indicated on label, to prevent accidental consumption by allergic population. In this work, we use chl...
Accurate and robust relative pose estimation is the first step in ensuring the success of an active debris removal mission. This paper introduces a novel method to detect structural markers on the European Space Agency’s Environmental Satellite...
Navigation technologies are becoming more advanced, helping to solve complicated problems in various fields. Navigation can be classified as global, in which predefined data and reference points from the working environment are used to generate a pat...
The early detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) using tumor markers remains an attractive prospect for the potential to downstage the disease. To validate the scale-up clinical performance of potential tumor markers for RCC (as a single marker and...
The rapid and decentralized detection of bacteria from biomedical, environmental, and food samples has the capacity to improve the conventional protocols and to change a predictable outcome. Identifying new markers and analysis methods represents an...
To tackle the challenges of complex construction environment interference (e.g., lighting variations, occlusion, and marker contamination) and the demand for high-precision alignment during the hoisting process of bridge-erecting machines, this paper...
The detection of reactive dyes in food matrices is crucial for food safety and compliance with regulations, especially since the use of such in food products is not approved. This study investigates the potential of using tin(II)chloride and laccase...
Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) belongs to the most common tumor entities in western countries. Circulating tumor cells (CTC) in blood of CRC patients are a powerful prognostic and predictive biomarker. However, whether CTC-associated markers can also be...
Herein we report the electropolymerization of a scopoletin based molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) for the detection of lysozyme (Lyz), an enzymatic marker of several diseases in mammalian species. Two different approaches have been used for the im...
Detection of ovarian cancer (OC) circulating tumour cells (CTCs) is primarily based on targeting epithelial markers, thus failing to detect mesenchymal tumour cells. More importantly, the immune checkpoint inhibitor marker PD-L1 has not been demonstr...
As an inflammatory marker, procalcitonin (PCT) is more representative than other traditional inflammatory markers. In this work, a highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) immunosensor was constructed based on the photoactive material Bi2S3/Ag2S t...
Mucormycosis infections are infrequent yet aggressive and serious fungal infections. Early diagnosis of mucormycosis and its discrimination from other fungal infections is required for targeted treatment and more favorable patient outcomes. The major...
Background: This is an initial study of the biofilm of Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (A.a). S. mutans and A.a are bacteria that cause infection diseases in the oral cavity. These bacteria have the ability...
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) are among top causes of patient health issues and fatalities in many countries. At present, terahertz biosensors have been widely used to detect chronic diseases because of their accurate detect...
The use of molecular biomarkers for the early detection of heart disease, before their onset of symptoms, is an attractive novel approach. Ideal molecular biomarkers, those that are both sensitive and specific to heart disease, are likely to provide...
Background: Understanding malignant transformation associated with ovarian cancer (OVCA) is important to establish early detection tests. This study examined whether expression of glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78, marker of cellular stress) increa...
Tricholoma matsutake is a rare, precious, and wild edible fungus that could not be cultivated artificially until now. This situation has given way to the introduction of fake T. matsutake commodities to the mushroom market. Among the methods used to...
SARS-CoV-2 was the cause of the global pandemic that caused a total of 14.9 million deaths during the years 2020 and 2021, according to the WHO. The virus presents a mutation rate between 10−5 and 10−3 substitutions per nucleotide site pe...
Blood-based B-cell activating factor (BAFF), growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) and osteopontin (OPN) have been identified to be promising biomarkers for the metastases of uveal melanoma (UM). This study intended to assess their kinetics and t...
Background: Previously, we reported elevated levels of fucosylated α1-acid glycoprotein (fAGP) in plasma samples from patients with diverse types of cancers. Accordingly, fAGP was assumed to be a potential biomarker for the early detection of c...
During the automatic driving of a vehicle, the vehicle’s positional information is important for vehicle driving control. If fixed-point land markers such as magnetic markers are used, the vehicle’s current position error can be calculate...
Diagnostic markers are desperately needed for the early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). We describe sets of markers expressed in temporal order in mouse models during pancreatitis, PDA initiation and progression. Cell type specif...
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are one of the most common forms of genetic variation and as such are powerful tools for the identification of bacterial strains, their genetic diversity, phylogenetic analysis, and outbreak surveillance. In thi...
The sub-clinical form of mastitis is difficult to detect and causes huge economic loss to the dairy industry. It has become a threat to public health at large, thus there is a need for definite diagnosis of the disease. Therefore, this study was unde...
Accurate dating of Toxoplasma gondii infection is essential for effective clinical management, particularly in pregnant women and immunocompromised individuals, where distinguishing acute from chronic infection informs treatment decisions. Serologica...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques are gaining attention as cost-effective, non-invasive strategies for acquiring information on fish and other aquatic organisms from water samples. Currently, eDNA approaches are used to detect specific fish species...
In this paper, an autonomous landing guidance strategy is proposed for quad-UAVs, including landing marker detection, altitude estimation, and adaptive landing commands generation. A double-layered nested marker is designed to ensure that the marker...
It is possible to detect damage in structures based only on vision-system-based assessment of their deformation shape under load. There is, however, a gap between available methods designed to detect damage in beam-like structures and engineering nee...
This paper presents the use of an external fixed two-dimensional laser scanner to detect cylindrical targets attached to moving devices, such as a mobile robot. This proposal is based on the detection of circular markers in the raw data provided by t...
Some trace elements in the human body, such as proteins and metabolites, are closely related to human health. Changes in the concentration of proteins can usually be used as indicators for the diagnosis of diseases. On the other side, some metabolite...
The complexity of the wheat genome has delayed the development and application of molecular markers to this species and wheat now lies behind barley, maize and rice in marker development. However, improvements in marker detection systems and in the t...
Adulteration of high-value oils such as olive and camellia oil poses serious challenges to market integrity and consumer safety. This study develops a comprehensive, model-free marker library for high-throughput detection of single and multivariate a...
Early detection of lung cancer significantly improves survival, yet current screening methods have limitations. This study aimed to identify a robust panel of plasma metabolites for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) diagnosis using a lar...
Oregano (Origanum vulgare and O. onites) is one of the most frequently counterfeited herbs in the world and is diluted with the leaves of a wide variety of plants. In addition to olive leaves, marjoram (O. majorana) is often used for this purpose in...
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