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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,292 Views
16 Pages

Subjective and Objective Quality Assessments of Display Products

  • Huiqing Zhang,
  • Donghao Li,
  • Yibing Yu and
  • Nan Guo

26 June 2021

In recent years, people’s daily lives have become inseparable from a variety of electronic devices, especially mobile phones, which have undoubtedly become necessity in people’s daily lives. In this paper, we are looking for a reliable way to acquire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,197 Views
19 Pages

10 November 2023

A study of video quality perceived by user (Quality of Experience, QoE) was conducted with an examination of whether and how the order and structure of the video sequence presentation affects subjective assessment. For this purpose, the influence of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,410 Views
12 Pages

Association between Subjective and Objective Assessment of Enucleation Outcome Depending on the Presence of an Orbital Implant in Patients with Uveal Melanoma

  • Weronika Pociej-Marciak,
  • Bożena Romanowska-Dixon,
  • Katarzyna Żuber-Łaskawiec,
  • Mojca Globočnik Petrovič and
  • Izabella Karska-Basta

12 April 2022

We aimed to assess the cosmetic outcome of patients who underwent enucleation for uveal melanoma. The subjective assessment was based on a questionnaire, including four questions on postoperative cosmetic outcome. As part of the objective assessment,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,970 Views
25 Pages

A Review of Subjective Assessments in Virtual Reality for Lighting Research

  • Michelangelo Scorpio,
  • Davide Carleo,
  • Martina Gargiulo,
  • Pilar Chías Navarro,
  • Yorgos Spanodimitriou,
  • Parinaz Sabet,
  • Massimiliano Masullo and
  • Giovanni Ciampi

Immersive virtual reality allows showing people virtual environments with high levels of presence, realism, and “feeling of being”, as if they were in the real world. With this aim, virtual environments must provide proper light distribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,142 Views
24 Pages

Assessment of the Segmentation of RGB Remote Sensing Images: A Subjective Approach

  • Giruta Kazakeviciute-Januskeviciene,
  • Edgaras Janusonis,
  • Romualdas Bausys,
  • Tadas Limba and
  • Mindaugas Kiskis

18 December 2020

The evaluation of remote sensing imagery segmentation results plays an important role in the further image analysis and decision-making. The search for the optimal segmentation method for a particular data set and the suitability of segmentation resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,782 Views
28 Pages

Due to the advances in head-mounted displays (HMDs), hardware and software technologies, and mobile connectivity, virtual reality (VR) applications such as viewing 360° videos on HMDs have seen an increased interest in a wide range of consumer and ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,032 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2021

Landscape character assessment (LCA) methods have been used in the past few decades to analyze, classify, and map landscape types, using objective and subjective approaches, with the aid of both quantitative and qualitative data. This paper addresses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,433 Views
25 Pages

7 January 2025

Arbitrary translational Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) video represents a transitional stage towards immersive terminal videos, allowing users to freely switch viewpoints for a 3D scene experience. However, the increased freedom of movement introduces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,171 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2023

The usage of media such as images and videos has been extensively increased in recent years. It has become impractical to store images and videos acquired by camera sensors in their raw form due to their huge storage size. Generally, image data is co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,266 Views
12 Pages

24 October 2018

Background: Craniosynostoses are congenital defects in the construction of the skull involving premature fusion of one or more cranial sutures. Premature fusion of sutures causes characteristic skull deformation(s). This affect the structure and thus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,311 Views
21 Pages

16 August 2024

Most image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms based on sparse representation primarily focus on amplitude information, often overlooking the structural composition of images. However, structural composition is closely linked to perceived image quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
28 Pages

23 December 2025

Traditional visual quality assessments of rural landscapes rely on subjective methods. This study integrates eye-tracking technology with subjective perception evaluation to construct a visual quality assessment model for rural landscapes, aiming to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,069 Views
8 Pages

Subjective Assessment of Sleep in Infantile Autism: A Comparative Study

  • Maydelin Alfonso-Alfonso,
  • Lilia María Morales-Chacón and
  • Justa Elizabeth González-Naranjo

24 January 2019

Sleep disturbances are very common in children with autism; it is for this reason that instruments that facilitate their evaluation are necessary. Objectives: Perform sleep assessment from a subjective perspective in a group of children with primary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,292 Views
10 Pages

26 June 2020

(1) Background: The aim of this study is to compare the IOTA-ADNEX (international ovarian tumor analysis–assessment of different neoplasias in the adnexa) model with gynecologic experts in differentiating ovarian diseases. (2) Methods: All part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,743 Views
11 Pages

Under controlled laboratory conditions, neurobehavioral assays such as the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) are sensitive to increasing levels of fatigue, and in general, tend to correlate with subjective ratings. However, laboratory studies specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
445 Views
26 Pages

12 December 2025

Accurate fault risk assessment is essential for maintaining wind turbine reliability. Traditional failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)-based approaches struggle to handle the fuzziness, uncertainty, and conflicting nature of multi-criteria evalu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,589 Views
33 Pages

6 November 2024

Urban parks provide essential ecosystem services (ESs) that enhance human wellbeing. However, discrepancies often arise between objective assessments of these services and stakeholders’ subjective perceptions. This study addresses a research ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,414 Views
10 Pages

This paper reports on four exploratory online studies of how wellbeing and welfare are valued and perceived from a subjective, individual perspective. Study 1 (n = 707) compares individuals’ subjective ratings and correlations of the importance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
1,096 Views
5 Pages

1 February 2014

Background: The ratio of extracellular mass to body cell mass (ecm/bcm), determined by bioelectrical impedance analysis, has been found to be a potentially useful indicator of nutrition status. Subjective global assessment (sga) is a subjective metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,851 Views
12 Pages

Global Subjective Assessment and Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form Better Predict Mortality Than GLIM Malnutrition Criteria in Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture

  • Francisco José Sánchez-Torralvo,
  • Verónica Pérez-del-Río,
  • María García-Olivares,
  • Nuria Porras,
  • Jose Abuín-Fernández,
  • Manuel Francisco Bravo-Bardají,
  • David García-de-Quevedo and
  • Gabriel Olveira

10 April 2023

The objective of our study is to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in elderly patients with fragility hip fractures through different diagnostic tools and to determine which nutritional assessment tool better predicts mortality. Methods: This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,625 Views
9 Pages

Our ambulatory assessment study explores the impact of the weather on the mental well-being of people with increased susceptibility. Participants with hay fever (n = 28) were assessed three times a day over a period of two weeks. Self-reported assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,503 Views
19 Pages

Application of Ultrasound Scores (Subjective Assessment, Simple Rules Risk Assessment, ADNEX Model, O-RADS) to Adnexal Masses of Difficult Classification

  • Mar Pelayo,
  • Javier Sancho-Sauco,
  • Javier Sánchez-Zurdo,
  • Belén Perez-Mies,
  • Leopoldo Abarca-Martínez,
  • Mª Jesús Cancelo-Hidalgo,
  • Jose Antonio Sainz-Bueno,
  • Juan Luis Alcázar and
  • Irene Pelayo-Delgado

28 August 2023

Background: Ultrasound features help to differentiate benign from malignant masses, and some of them are included in the ultrasound (US) scores. The main aim of this work is to describe the ultrasound features of certain adnexal masses of difficult c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,652 Views
17 Pages

24 December 2019

The human–environment relationship is bidirectional, meaning that human attitudes and behavior to nature are at the root of environmental change, while changes in the environment affect human attitudes and behavior. It is necessary to analyze t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,554 Views
12 Pages

Risk Assessment of Indoor Air Quality and Its Association with Subjective Symptoms among Office Workers in Korea

  • Dayoung Jung,
  • Youngtae Choe,
  • Jihun Shin,
  • Eunche Kim,
  • Gihong Min,
  • Dongjun Kim,
  • Mansu Cho,
  • Chaekwan Lee,
  • Kilyong Choi and
  • Byung Lyul Woo
  • + 1 author

The 2014 Time-Use Survey of Statistics Korea revealed that office workers are increasingly spending more than eight hours at work. This study conducted an exposure assessment for office workers in Korea. Indoor and outdoor air pollutants were measure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,609 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2018

Determination of subjective weights, which are based on the opinions and preferences of decision-makers, is one of the most important matters in the process of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA)...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,257 Views
14 Pages

Background/Objectives: Neuropsychological testing is key in defining cognitive profiles at early stages of dementia. More importantly, the detection of subtle cognitive changes, such as subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs), an understudied phenomen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,920 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2022

Currently, during the pandemic, the forced transition to distance learning carries a number of problems. These problems affect various aspects of education, including the study of students’ attitudes to distance learning. The purpose of this re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
768 Views
21 Pages

Sleep Trajectories in Amnestic and Non-Amnestic MCI: Longitudinal Insights from Subjective and Objective Assessments

  • Areti Batzikosta,
  • Despina Moraitou,
  • Paschalis Steiropoulos,
  • Elvira Masoura,
  • Georgia Papantoniou,
  • Ioanna-Giannoula Katsouri,
  • Maria Sofologi,
  • Glykeria Tsentidou and
  • Magda Tsolaki

6 November 2025

Background/Objectives: Sleep disturbances are increasingly recognized as dynamic biomarkers of cognitive decline; however, longitudinal and multimodal studies directly comparing amnestic (aMCI) and non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment (naMCI) remai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
840 Views
16 Pages

21 October 2025

(1) Background: This study compared subjective and objective texture classifications of hospital-provided pureed meat dishes and evaluated the impact of adding a food-shaping agent on the consistency of the food. (2) Methods: In total, 18 common pure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,951 Views
34 Pages

Integrating Objective and Subjective Thermal Comfort Assessments in Urban Park Design: A Case Study of Monteria, Colombia

  • Jhoselin Rosso-Alvarez,
  • Juan Jiménez-Caldera,
  • Gabriel Campo-Daza,
  • Richard Hernández-Sabié and
  • Andrés Caballero-Calvo

Urban parks play a key role in mitigating heat stress and improving outdoor thermal comfort, especially in tropical and subtropical cities. This study evaluates thermal comfort in Nuevo Bosque Park (Montería, Colombia) through a multiperspecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,176 Views
11 Pages

29 June 2022

In Chile, depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among Chilean older adults, and research that examines the factors associated with them is scarce. This study aimed to determine if subjective assessments of quality of life are associated with posit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,617 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2023

The paper presents the results of subjective and objective quality assessments of H.264-, H.265-, and VP9-encoded video. Most of the literature is devoted to subjective quality assessment in well-defined laboratory circumstances. However, the end use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,119 Views
14 Pages

Nasal Irrigation with Licorice Extract for Allergic Rhinitis: A Clinical Study Evaluated by Subjective Assessments and Meridian Electrical Conductance

  • Pei-Rung Yang,
  • Yung-Hsiang Chen,
  • Chao-Yang Chang,
  • Bo-Cheng Rau,
  • Yu-Ching Cheng,
  • Yao-Hsu Yang,
  • Ching-Yuan Wu and
  • Geng-He Chang

25 October 2025

Objective: Allergic rhinitis (AR) continues to adversely affect the life quality of a substantial patient population, highlighting the necessity for enhanced treatment modalities. Our research utilized licorice extract (LE) in nasal irrigation for ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,324 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Objective and Subjective Swallowing Outcomes in Patients with Dysphagia Treated for Head and Neck Cancer

  • Hsin-Hao Liou,
  • Shu-Wei Tsai,
  • Miyuki Hsing-Chun Hsieh,
  • Yi-Jen Chen,
  • Jenn-Ren Hsiao,
  • Cheng-Chih Huang,
  • Chun-Yen Ou,
  • Chan-Chi Chang,
  • Wei-Ting Lee and
  • Sen-Tien Tsai
  • + 1 author

28 January 2022

We evaluated objective and subjective swallowing function outcomes in patients with dysphagia treated for head and neck cancer (HNC) and identified risk factors for poor swallowing outcomes. Patients undergoing videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (V...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,465 Views
15 Pages

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationships between seven descriptors of movement proficiency used by an expert to grade an athlete’s single-leg squat and the overall subjective ‘grade’ and the ability to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,863 Views
23 Pages

25 April 2023

With the increasing complexity of the electromagnetic environment, existing electronic systems and various equipment are greatly threatened. The study of the assessment of the effects of the electromagnetic environment has attracted more and more att...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,422 Views
16 Pages

Overview of High-Dynamic-Range Image Quality Assessment

  • Yue Liu,
  • Yu Tian,
  • Shiqi Wang,
  • Xinfeng Zhang and
  • Sam Kwong

27 September 2024

In recent years, the High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) image has gained widespread popularity across various domains, such as the security, multimedia, and biomedical fields, owing to its ability to deliver an authentic visual experience. However, the extensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,933 Views
31 Pages

10 March 2021

Video quality evaluation needs a combined approach that includes subjective and objective metrics, testing, and monitoring of the network. This paper deals with the novel approach of mapping quality of service (QoS) to quality of experience (QoE) usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,801 Views
17 Pages

Evaluating the Consistency of Subjective Activity Assessments and Their Relation to Cognition in Older Adults

  • Cassandra R. Hatt,
  • Christopher R. Brydges,
  • Jacqueline A. Mogle,
  • Martin J. Sliwinski and
  • Allison A. M. Bielak

(1) Background: Research examining whether activity engagement is related to cognitive functioning in older adults has been limited to using retrospective reports of activity which may be affected by biases. This study compared two measurements (esti...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,412 Views
10 Pages

Comparison of Subjective and Objective Assessments on Improvement in Gait Function after Carotid Endarterectomy

  • Tatsuhiko Takahashi,
  • Shunrou Fujiwara,
  • Suguru Igarashi,
  • Toshihiko Ando,
  • Kohei Chida,
  • Masakazu Kobayashi,
  • Kenji Yoshida,
  • Takahiro Koji,
  • Yoshitaka Kubo and
  • Kuniaki Ogasawara

18 November 2020

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether objective gait test scores obtained using a tri-axial accelerometer can detect subjective improvement in gait as determined by the patient after carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Each patient unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,870 Views
32 Pages

Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England

  • Sneha Roychowdhury,
  • Suvodeep Mazumdar,
  • Dhavalkumar Thakker,
  • Alessandro Checco,
  • Vitaveska Lanfranchi and
  • Barry Goodchild

11 June 2024

This study explores the correlation between residents’ subjective assessments of urban neighbourhoods, obtained through virtual walkthroughs, and objective measures of deprivation. Our study was set within a specific city in the United Kingdom,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,154 Views
18 Pages

31 July 2025

Evaluating risk in complex systems relies heavily on human auditors whose subjective assessments can be compromised by knowledge gaps and varying interpretations. This subjectivity often results in inconsistent risk evaluations, even among auditors e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,327 Views
20 Pages

This study focuses on the psychological state and economic preparedness of socially isolated older individuals in China’s rapidly aging society. Both a simple model and an extended model were developed and tested to explore the impact of social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,321 Views
20 Pages

Comparing the Clinical Viability of Automated Fundus Image Segmentation Methods

  • Gorana Gojić,
  • Veljko B. Petrović,
  • Dinu Dragan,
  • Dušan B. Gajić,
  • Dragiša Mišković,
  • Vladislav Džinić,
  • Zorka Grgić,
  • Jelica Pantelić and
  • Ana Oros

23 November 2022

Recent methods for automatic blood vessel segmentation from fundus images have been commonly implemented as convolutional neural networks. While these networks report high values for objective metrics, the clinical viability of recovered segmentation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,820 Views
14 Pages

Protein-Energy Wasting Assessment and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

  • Ban-Hock Khor,
  • Hui-Ci Tiong,
  • Shing Cheng Tan,
  • Raha Abdul Rahman and
  • Abdul Halim Abdul Gafor

13 September 2020

Nutritional assessment is essential to identify patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) who are protein-energy wasting (PEW) and at risk of poor clinical outcomes. This systematic review aimed to investigate the relationship of nutritional assessment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,306 Views
8 Pages

5 August 2017

Objective: The objective of this article is to unveil the ways in which the emotional intelli- gence (EI) of a young person is linked with subjective assessment of physical state, depressiveness, anxiety, and psychological well-being, as well as to d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
559 Views
25 Pages

15 December 2025

The accurate assessment of follower readiness remains a challenge within Situational Leadership Theory (SLT), which traditionally emphasizes competence and commitment while overlooking motivational and relational cues. To address this gap, the study...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,981 Views
20 Pages

The subjective judgment on the annoyance produced by noise is always an important tool to complete an investigation, and to find the best way for its reduction. Therefore, acoustic analyses for environmental improvement frequently combine objective m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,931 Views
26 Pages

17 February 2023

This paper describes a newly-created image database termed as the NITS-IQA database for image quality assessment (IQA). In spite of recently developed IQA databases, which contain a collection of a huge number of images and type of distortions, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,529 Views
19 Pages

Testing Protective Clothing with an Emphasis on Subjective Opinions

  • Jozef Kubás,
  • Boris Kollár,
  • Jozef Ristvej,
  • Stanislava Strelcová,
  • Katarína Petrlová and
  • Adéla Stolínová

5 January 2024

This paper focuses on the testing and evaluation of special anti-chemical protective suits. The testing and evaluation focused on the subjective aspect of the protective suits, which is best perceived by their wearers; however, the subjective aspect...

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