Flexi-YOLO: A lightweight method for road crack detection in complex environments. by Jiexiang Yang, Renjie Tian, Zexing Zhou, Xingyue Tan, Pingyang He

“…Additionally, a lightweight network design is implemented, establishing G-Head (Ghost-Head) as the detection head to optimize the issue of feature redundancy. Experimental results show that Flexi-YOLO achieves an accuracy increase of 2.7% over YOLOv8n, a recall rate rise of 4.7%, a mAP improvement of 5.3%, a mAP@0.5-0.95 increase of 3.9%, a decrease of 0.5 in GFLOPS, and an F1 score improvement from 0.80 to 0.84. …”
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Revolutionizing Clear-Sky Humidity Profile Retrieval with Multi-Angle-Aware Networks for Ground-Based Microwave Radiometers by Yinshan Yang, Zhanqing Li, Jianping Guo, Yuying Wang, Hao Wu, Yi Shang, Ye Wang, Langfeng Zhu, Xing Yan

“…Based on the 7-year (2018–2024) in situ measurements from Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai, validation results reveal that AngleNet achieves substantial improvements, with an average R2 of 0.71 and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 10.39%, surpassing conventional models such as LGBM (light gradient boosting machine) and RF (random forest) by over 10% in both metrics, and demonstrating a remarkable 41% increase in R2 and a 10% reduction in RMSE compared to the previous BRNN method (batch normalization and robust neural network). …”
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Consensus recommendations for diagnosis and management of pulmonary arterial hypertension patients in Egypt by Ayman Farghaly, Ahmed A. Aziz, Reem El Korashy, Marwa Abdelrady, Wael Soliman, Ahmed Hassan, Youssef Amin Soliman

“…This should be coupled with the development of screening algorithms tailored to the Egyptian setting. To develop such national screening algorithms, cost-effectiveness studies should be conducted in Egypt to better understand optimal screening frequency and the best use of algorithms. …”
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Feasibility of Implementing Motion-Compensated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reconstruction on Graphics Processing Units Using Compute Unified Device Architecture by Mohamed Aziz Zeroual, Natalia Dudysheva, Vincent Gras, Franck Mauconduit, Karyna Isaieva, Pierre-André Vuissoz, Freddy Odille

“…Motion correction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become increasingly complex due to the high computational demands of iterative reconstruction algorithms and the heterogeneity of emerging computing platforms. …”
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Distributed Beamforming for Relay Assisted Multiuser Machine-to-Machine Networks by Chen Chen, Lin Bai, Meiping Feng, Minhua Huang, Tian Tian

“…Numerical simulations for the proposed algorithms are presented showing the performance of the proposed schemes is close to that of the optimal scheme with global CSI in terms of bit error rate (BER) criterion.…”
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GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and TETRA by Cihangir Tezcan, Gregor Leander

“…In this work we provide optimized implementations of several widely used algorithms on GPUs, leading to interesting insights on the cost of brute force attacks on several real-word applications. …”
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Acute Appendicitis Remains a Great Mimicker – The Pitfalls in the Differential Diagnosis and Tactics - A Case Report by Georgi Popivanov, Marina Konaktchieva, Vladimir Vasilev, Kirien Kjossev, Marin Penkov, Dimitar Penchev

“…Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common non-traumatic abdominal emergency. Despite the improved knowledge, experience, and technological advance, its diagnosis remains a challenge. …”
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The authors would like to thank the staff of the Organisation of Transportation and Transport Management Department by B. S. Trofimov, I. S. Trofimova

“…To plan the work of a lorry, taking into account changes in its design, it is required to use improved methods for optimizing the planning of the work of a freight motor transport enterprise, which is the relationship of activities for the transportation of goods, maintenance and current repair. …”
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Artificial neural networks in predicting impaired bone metabolism in diabetes mellitus by S. S. Safarova

“…Growing incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM), given significant socioeconomic consequences that low-trauma fractures entail, determines a need to improve diagnostic standards and minimize the risk of medical errors, which will reduce costs and contribute to better treatment outcomes in this category of patients.Aim. …”
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An Interpretable Method for Asphalt Pavement Skid Resistance Performance Evaluation Under Sand-Accumulated Conditions Based on Multi-Scale Fractals by Yuhan Weng, Zhaoyun Sun, Huiying Liu, Yingbin Gu

“…The performance of mainstream machine learning models is compared, and the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model is optimized using the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm. …”
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A Novel Temperature Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Pyrometry Under Strong Temperature Gradients and Limited Measurement Points by Jingkao Tan, Lehang Chen, Na Li, Qulan Zhou, Zhongquan Gao, Jie Zhou

“…Acoustic pyrometry (AP) is a promising methodology for high-quality temperature field reconstruction, which is widely used in the monitoring of atmosphere, room, and furnace. However, most of the existing acoustic reconstruction algorithms are developed and utilized in relatively uniform temperature distributions. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of the Diagnostics for Pediatric Tuberculosis Based on Assay Time, Ease of Operation, and Performance by Soumya Basu, Subhra Chakraborty

“…Gaps in the existing diagnostic methods, algorithms, and operational costs were also reviewed. …”
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Remote Sensing Target Tracking Method Based on Super-Resolution Reconstruction and Hybrid Networks by Hongqing Wan, Sha Xu, Yali Yang, Yongfang Li

“…And obtaining high-resolution images by optimizing algorithms will save a lot of costs. Aiming at the problem of large tracking errors in remote sensing target tracking by current tracking algorithms, this paper proposes a target tracking method combined with a super-resolution hybrid network. …”
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A Rapid Design Method for Centrifugal Pump Impellers Based on Machine Learning by Y. Chen, W. Li, Y. Luo, L. Ji, S. Li, Y. Long

“…Variations in the cross-sectional area of the flow passage influence the internal flow state of the centrifugal pump, ultimately impacting its hydraulic efficiency. A genetic algorithm, guided by variations in the cross-sectional area of the flow passage, optimizes the blade profile, achieving an improved impeller flow path and completing the rapid design of the centrifuge. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Transferable EMS for Hybrid Electric Trains by Yogesh Wankhede, Sheetal Rana, Faruk Kazi

“…To enhance the performance of the EMS, proposes to use of a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm specifically the deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) combined with transfer learning (TL) which can improve the system's efficiency when driving cycles are changed. …”
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Initialization Methods for FPGA-Based EMT Simulations by Xin Ma, Xiao-Ping Zhang

“…The performance of these four methods are also compared, and Method 4 can initialize instantly with the simplest code. To improve hardware adaptability, optimized strategies are developed for address sequence, interface, update modes and dataflow. …”
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Integration of Hash Encoding Technique with Machine Learning for Employee Turnover Prediction by Ahya Radiatul Kamila, Johanes Fernandes Andry, Francka Sakti Lee, Felliks F. Tampinongkol

“…It is part of the preprocessing stage, aiming to reduce memory usage, speed up data preprocessing, and improve model performance. After preprocessing is completed, the prediction model is trained using the Random Forest algorithm to predict employee turnover. …”
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Comparative Assessment of Several Effective Machine Learning Classification Methods for Maternal Health Risk by Md Nurul Raihen, Sultana Akter

“…Maternal risk analysis can improve prenatal care, improve mother and baby health, and optimize healthcare resources by identifying misclassified observations using machine learning algorithms such as LDA, QDA, KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Bagging, and Support Vector Machine, all of which have a significant impact on maternity health risk assessment. …”
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Machine learning enables legal risk assessment in internet healthcare using HIPAA data by Shixian Liu, Hailing Liu, Siyu Fan, Leming Song, Zeyu Wang

“…DNN demonstrates strong capabilities in handling complex nonlinear relationships, and XGBoost further improves classification accuracy by optimizing decision tree models through gradient boosting. …”
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Cardiac Computed Tomography Measurements in Pulmonary Embolism Associated with Clinical Deterioration by Anthony J. Weekes, Angela M. Pikus, Parker L. Hambright, Kelly L. Goonan, Nathaniel O’Connell

“…Introduction: Most pulmonary embolism response teams (PERT) use a radiologist-determined right ventricle to left ventricle ratio (RV:LV) cut-off of 1.0 to risk-stratify pulmonary embolism (PE) patients. …”
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