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Development and comprehensive evaluation of a new spring-steel-driven glove for grasping assistance during activities of daily living.

Millions of people suffer from a decline in grip strength and hand function due to conditions such a...

CXCL1: A new diagnostic biomarker for human tuberculosis discovered using Diversity Outbred mice.

More humans have died of tuberculosis (TB) than any other infectious disease and millions still die ...

Clinical application of mask region-based convolutional neural network for the automatic detection and segmentation of abnormal liver density based on hepatocellular carcinoma computed tomography datasets.

The aim of the study was to use a previously proposed mask region-based convolutional neural network...

A model based on clinico-biochemical characteristics and deep learning features from MR images for assessing necroinflammatory activity in chronic hepatitis B.

Data Driven Calibration and Control of Compact Lightweight Series Elastic Actuators for Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves.

The working principle of a SEA is based on using an elastic material connected serially to the mecha...

Software-Based Method for Automated Segmentation and Measurement of Wounds on Photographs Using Mask R-CNN: a Validation Study.

In clinical routine, wound documentation is one of the most important contributing factors to treati...

DBP-GAPred: An intelligent method for prediction of DNA-binding proteins types by enhanced evolutionary profile features with ensemble learning.

DNA-binding proteins (DBPs) perform an influential role in diverse biological activities like DNA re...

The Infectious Disease Ontology in the age of COVID-19.

BACKGROUND: Effective response to public health emergencies, such as we are now experiencing with CO...

Development of a smartphone-based lateral-flow imaging system using machine-learning classifiers for detection of Salmonella spp.

Salmonella spp. are a foodborne pathogen frequently found in raw meat, egg products, and milk. Salmo...

Accurate plant pathogen effector protein classification ab initio with deepredeff: an ensemble of convolutional neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Plant pathogens cause billions of dollars of crop loss every year and are a major threat...

Predicting HIV drug resistance using weighted machine learning method at target protein sequence-level.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a fatal disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus...

Development of novel-nanobody-based lateral-flow immunochromatographic strip test for rapid detection of recombinant human interferon α2b.

Recombinant human interferon α2b (rhIFNα2b) is widely used as an antiviral therapy agent for the tre...

Dual-Organ Transcriptomic Analysis of Rainbow Trout Infected With Through Co-Expression and Machine Learning.

is a major pathogen that causes a high mortality rate in trout farms. However, systemic responses t...

DeepHBV: a deep learning model to predict hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration sites.

BACKGROUND: The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the main causes of viral hepatitis and liver cance...

Occupational therapists' evaluation of the perceived usability and utility of wearable soft robotic exoskeleton gloves for hand function rehabilitation following a stroke.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the perceived usability and utility of using a soft robotic glove to rehabilita...

Evaluation of Deep Learning Architectures for Complex Immunofluorescence Nuclear Image Segmentation.

Separating and labeling each nuclear instance (instance-aware segmentation) is the key challenge in ...

Orthogonal quantification of soluble inducible T-cell costimulator (ICOS) in healthy and diseased human serum.

Inducible T-cell costimulator (ICOS), a homodimeric protein expressed on the surface of activated T-...

Egocentric-View Fingertip Detection for Air Writing Based on Convolutional Neural Networks.

This research investigated real-time fingertip detection in frames captured from the increasingly po...

BoSL FAL pump: A small, low-cost, easily constructed, 3D-printed peristaltic pump for sampling of waters.

Water sampling is an essential undertaking for water utilities and agencies to protect and enhance o...

Face mask detection using deep learning: An approach to reduce risk of Coronavirus spread.

Effective strategies to restrain COVID-19 pandemic need high attention to mitigate negatively impact...

Deep learning-based framework for the distinction of membranous nephropathy: a new approach through hyperspectral imagery.

BACKGROUND: Common subtypes seen in Chinese patients with membranous nephropathy (MN) include idiopa...