Stress is the crucial factor of ferromagnetic material failure origin. However, the nondestructive test methods to analyze the ferromagnetic material properties’ inhomogeneity on the microscopic scale with stress have not been obtained so far. In thi...
Mean tumor apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of breast cancer showed excellent repeatability but only moderate predictive power for breast cancer therapy response in the ACRIN 6698 multicenter imaging trial. Previous single-center studies have sho...
Background/Objectives: Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is frequently used to treat anemia of prematurity, yet bedside metrics that capture its short-term impact on oxygenation stability are limited. We assessed whether pulse oximetry histogram-deriv...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, affecting 1 million Americans and 2.5 million people globally. Although the diagnosis is made clinically, imaging plays a major role in diagnosing and monitoring disease progression...
Object tracking is a challenging research task because of drastic appearance changes of the target and a lack of training samples. Most online learning trackers are hampered by complications, e.g., drifting problem under occlusion, being out of view,...
Controllable symbolic music generation must preserve a reference melody while remaining responsive to style prompts. Existing hierarchical diffusion systems typically reuse a shared condition vector across harmony, rhythm, and timbre stages, which ca...
Although correlation filter-based trackers (CFTs) have made great achievements on both robustness and accuracy, the performance of trackers can still be improved, because most of the existing trackers use either a sole filter template or fixed featur...
The uneven energy response of radiation detectors severely limits the accuracy of the dose rate meter used for radiation protection. Currently widely used in dose rate meters as a physical method of setting shielding compensation, the energy response...
Image registration is a spatial alignment of corresponding images of the same scene acquired from different views, sensors, and time intervals. Especially, satellite image registration is a challenging task due to the high resolution of images. In ad...
The lack of validation and standardization represents the main drawback for a clear role of whole-body diffusion weighted imaging (WB-DWI) for prediction and assessment of treatment response in Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL). We explored the reliability of...
In this paper, a bioinspired method in the magnetic field memory of the bees, applied in a rover of precision pollination, is presented. The method calculates sharpness features by entropy and variance of the Laplacian of images segmented by color in...
Current manual laser cleaning methods often require highly skilled operators to achieve fast and reliable cleaning. This study investigated the feasibility of measuring thermal processes during laser metal cleaning to support the development of an au...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is considered a promising noninvasive therapeutic strategy in biomedicine, especially by utilizing low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in visible and near-infrared spectra to trigger biological responses. The major challenge of...
CdS nanocrystals were prepared in water-in-oil microemulsions. The nanocrystal properties, absorption and luminescence spectra and size distributions, were monitored at different times after mixing the microemulsions of the two precursors to obtain i...
In digital signal processing, the finite impulse response (FIR) filter is a fundamental tool for processing discrete-time signals. This paper explores the implementation of FIR filters using quantum computation methods. In this study, a quantum circu...
This paper presents experimental research findings for those involved in the early phase of fire in office buildings. Class A model fires with a reaction area from 5 cm2 to 300 cm2 were chosen for investigation. To mock up a fire, the following combu...
This study developed and field tested an automated weed mapping and variable-rate herbicide spraying (VRHS) system for row crops. Weed detection was performed through a machine vision sub-system that used a custom threshold segmentation method, an im...
U-statistics are a fundamental class of statistics derived from modeling quantities of interest characterized by responses from multiple subjects. U-statistics make generalizations the empirical mean of a random variable X to the sum of all k-tuples...
Blood vessels transport blood and deliver essential molecules to cells. In cancer, the tumour vasculature evolves very differently from healthy tissue, not only in morphology but also in functionality. Comprehensive 3D in vivo imaging of the tumour m...
Monitoring algal growth rates and estimating microalgae concentration in photobioreactor systems are critical for optimizing production efficiency. Traditional methods—such as microscopy, fluorescence, flow cytometry, spectroscopy, and macrosco...
Recently, with the widespread adoption of quick response (QR) code payments, there have been incidents of unauthorized use of QR codes presented at the time of payment, due to theft or duplication. As a countermeasure, conventional QR code payment sy...
Conventional methods for pathogen detection in water rely on time-consuming enrichment steps followed by biochemical identification strategies, which require assay times ranging from 24 hours to a week. However, in recent years, significant efforts h...
Photon-efficient LiDAR provides an active remote sensing pathway for long-range, low-light three-dimensional observation, but photon-limited reconstruction remains difficult when background events dominate sparse returns. In dynamic scenes, line-of-s...
Nowadays, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are becoming increasingly competitive. In order to fulfill the rapidly changing market and diversified demands of customers, the SMEs need to achieve and maintain high productivity and quality, with...
Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in the monitoring of surface water for historical analysis and near real-time applications. Due to its cloud penetrating capability, many studies have focused on providing efficient and high quality me...
A rapid identification of oil would facilitate a prompt response and efficient removal in the event of an oil spill. Traditional chemical methods in oil fingerprinting have limitations in terms of both time and cost. This study considers machine lear...
Peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) occur frequently and can lead to devastating and permanent sensory and motor function disabilities. Systemic tacrolimus (FK506) administration has been shown to hasten recovery and improve functional outcomes after PN...
Affinity propagation (AP) clustering with low complexity and high performance is suitable for radio remote head (RRH) clustering for real-time joint transmission in the cloud radio access network. The existing AP algorithms for joint transmission hav...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) can provide actionable feedback for demand response (DR) when direct measurements of device states are unavailable. We propose a reproducible, engineering-oriented pipeline for detecting ON/OFF states of end-use l...
In response to the issues of slow convergence and the tendency to fall into local optima in traditional iterative closest point (ICP) point cloud registration algorithms, this study presents a fast registration algorithm for laser point clouds based...
Specialized procedures to help in the emergency response situations following ship accidents have been under development by the Classification Societies. Such procedures consider the hull-girder collapse as the most important failure mode, without th...
This study tested the hypothesis that a change in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measured in diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is an independent imaging marker, and ADC performs better than functional tumor volume (FTV) for assessing treatment r...
Repeatability and reproducibility of magnetization transfer magnetic resonance imaging of the breast, and the ability of this technique to assess the response of locally advanced breast cancer to neoadjuvant therapy (NAT), are determined. Reproducibi...
Time-reversed Young (TRY) interferometry reconstructs interference from a fixed detector by reading out a programmable source-label distribution. This work formulates the architecture as a source-coded Bayesian response sensor. For a perturbation par...
Industrial robots play a crucial role in modern manufacturing, but ensuring safe human–robot collaboration remains a challenge. Traditional collision avoidance methods, such as physical barriers and emergency stops, are limited in efficiency an...
Background: Whole-Body Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (WBDWI) is an established technique for staging and evaluating treatment response in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and advanced prostate cancer (APC). However, WBDWI scans show inter- and intra-...
Facial emotion recognition has become increasingly important in healthcare, where understanding delicate cues like pain, discomfort, or unconsciousness can support more timely and responsive care. Yet, recognizing facial expressions in real-world set...
The infectious coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a viral disease that affects the lungs, which caused great havoc when the epidemic rapidly spread around the world. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are conducted to screen for COVID-19 and res...
Retinal vessel segmentation is one of the preliminary tasks for developing diagnosis software systems related to various retinal diseases. In this study, a fully automated vessel segmentation system is proposed. Firstly, the vessels are enhanced usin...
This paper presents a novel image classification scheme for benthic coral reef images that can be applied to both single image and composite mosaic datasets. The proposed method can be configured to the characteristics (e.g., the size of the dataset,...
Pedestrian crossings are an essential part of the urban landscape, providing safe passage for pedestrians to cross busy streets. While some are regulated by timed signals and are marked with signs and lights, others are simply marked on the road and...
Ovarian cancer is a gynecological cancer, which, if metastasized and not detected early, can cause death among women. Therefore, accurate prediction of drug responses to ovarian cancer is needed. A gynecological pathologist inspects abnormality in ti...
This paper is about the design, implementation, and deployment of a multi-modal biometric system to grant access to a company structure and to internal zones in the company itself. Face and iris have been chosen as biometric traits. Face is feasible...
Virtual reality (VR) provides an effective experimental environment for the controlled investigation of autonomic physiological responses under different levels of virtual immersion. This study investigated heart rate variability (HRV) responses to m...
As part of the early warning system, forest fire detection has a critical role in detecting fire in a forest area to prevent damage to forest ecosystems. In this case, the speed of the detection process is the most critical factor to support a fast r...
Rear-view human tracking and re-identification remain critical challenges for robotic visual sensing in unmanned vehicles, particularly under adverse weather conditions and severe occlusion. Conventional deep learning models often suffer from feature...
Artificial light at night (ALAN) alters natural nocturnal environments and affects ecosystems, human health, and night sky visibility, while cloud cover strongly modulates night sky brightness (NSB) by enhancing or attenuating skyglow. This study inv...
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) primarily relies on resource-based metrics, such as CPU utilization, which are poorly suited to capturing the latency variability of AI inference workloads. In this paper, we propose a custom-metric-driven a...
During the exploration and visualization of big spatio-temporal data, massive volume poses a number of challenges to the achievement of interactive visualization, including large memory consumption, high rendering delay, and poor visual effects. Rese...
The high quality and efficient production of greenhouse vegetation depend on micrometeorology environmental adjusting such as system warming and illumination supplement. In order to improve the quantity, quality, and efficiency of greenhouse vegetati...
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