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The serious loss of mangrove forest over the largest delta of Africa, Niger Delta: causes and reasons.

Marine environmental research
While global mangrove forests have suffered significant loss, raising widespread concern, little information is available on how mangrove forests have changed along Africa's coast. This study employed multi-temporal remote sensing data and machine le...

Using Machine Learning to Fight Child Acute Malnutrition and Predict Weight Gain During Outpatient Treatment with a Simplified Combined Protocol.

Nutrients
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Child acute malnutrition is a global public health problem, affecting 45 million children under 5 years of age. The World Health Organization recommends monitoring weight gain weekly as an indicator of the correct treatment. Ho...

Sensitivity and specificity of computer vision classification of eyelid photographs for programmatic trachoma assessment.

PloS one
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Trachoma programs base treatment decisions on the community prevalence of the clinical signs of trachoma, assessed by direct examination of the conjunctiva. Automated assessment could be more standardized and more cost-effective. We ...