Sayyid Kamran Hussain¹, Ali Haider Khan^2,*, Malek Alrashidi³, Sajid Iqbal⁴, Qazi Mudassar Ilyas⁴, Kamran Shah⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3763-3781, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041722

Abstract As ocular computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) tools become more widely accessible, many researchers are developing deep learning (DL) methods to aid in ocular disease (OHD) diagnosis. Common eye diseases like cataracts (CATR), glaucoma (GLU), and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are the focus of this study, which uses DL to examine their identification. Data imbalance and outliers are widespread in fundus images, which can make it difficult to apply many DL algorithms to accomplish this analytical assignment. The creation of effcient and reliable DL algorithms is seen to be the key to further enhancing detection performance. Using the analysis of images of… More >

Xue Huang^1,*, Zeyu Chen¹, Ruizhao Yang¹, Guangzhu Feng²

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.5, pp. 2301-2319, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.025888

Abstract 1,3-Dioleoyl-2-palmitoylglycerol (OPO) has been a hotspot of functional oils research in recent years, but due to the high cost of sn-1,3 specific lipase in enzymatic synthesis and the lack of biocatalyst stability, large-scale industrial application is difficult. In this study, the prepared magnetic ZnFe₂O₄ was functionalized with dopamine to obtain ZnFe₂O₄@PDA, and the nano-biocatalyst ZnFe₂O₄@PDA@RML was prepared by immobilizing sn-1,3 specific lipase of Rhizomucor miehei lipase (RML) via a cross-linking method. The existence of RML on ZnFe₂O₄@PDA was confirmed by XRD, FTIR, SEM, and TEM. This strategy proved to be simple and effective because the lipase immobilized on magnetic nanoparticles… More > Graphic Abstract

Nora Elizondo-Villarreal^1,*, Luz H. Verástegui-Dominguez¹, Jose J. Quijano-Briones¹, Francisco J. Vázquez-Rodríguez², Eden Rodríguez-Castellanos³, Enrique López-Cuellar³, Ernesto Torres-Lopez¹, Victor M. Castaño-Meneses^4,*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.12, pp. 3559-3572, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.021945

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Agave salmiana ash and poultry eggshell powder as CaO sources were used for obtaining nanostructured hydroxyapatite (HAP). The synthesis was carried out by the Green Chemistry Hydrothermal Biosynthesis at 180°C with a pH of 5, by reacting CaO from Agave Salmiana ash and Eggshell powder, with dibasic calcium phosphate (CaHPO₄•2H₂O) in an aqueous solution, with Aloe barbadensis extract. The product was characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). The size and shape of the hydroxyapatite particles changed dramatically in the presence of Aloe barbadensis. Large crystals of Hydroxyapatite were observed… More > Graphic Abstract

L. K. Shoba^1,*, P. Mohan Kumar²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 613-628, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024449

Abstract Nowadays in the medical field, imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are mainly used to identify retinal diseases. In this paper, the Central Serous Chorio Retinopathy (CSCR) image is analyzed for various stages and then compares the difference between CSCR before as well as after treatment using different application methods. The first approach, which was focused on image quality, improves medical image accuracy. An enhancement algorithm was implemented to improve the OCT image contrast and denoise purpose called Boosted Anisotropic Diffusion with an Unsharp Masking Filter (BADWUMF). The classifier used here is to figure out whether the OCT… More >

LONGJU QI^1,2,#, XIAOYING XU^3,#, BIN LI^4,#, BO CHANG⁵, SHENGCUN WANG², CHUN LIU², LIUCHENG WU², XIAODI ZHOU⁴, QINGHUA WANG^2,*

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.4, pp. 989-998, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.018014

Abstract Excessive fat ectopically deposited in the non-adipose tissues is considered as one of the leading causes of myopathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of Dihydroartemisinin (DHA) in palmitate (PAL)-incubated H9c2 cells (lipotoxicity-induced cell injury model). Cell viability of PAL-treated cells was determined by MTT assay, and apoptotic regulators were examined by qRT-PCR and western blot analysis, in the absence or in the presence of DHA, respectively. Expression levels of miR-133b and Sirt1 were also evaluated by qRT-PCR and western blotting examination. PAL decreased the viability of H9c2 cells and enhanced the expression of apoptotic genes.… More >

Ben Attia Selma^*, Ouerfelli Houssem Eddine, Salhi Salah

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.2, pp. 795-810, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020435

Abstract This study addressed sufficient conditions for the robust monotonic convergence of repetitive discrete-time linear parameter varying systems, with the parameter variation rate bound. The learning law under consideration is an anticipatory iterative learning control. Of particular interest in this study is that the iterations can eliminate the influence of disturbances. Based on a simple quadratic performance function, a sufficient condition for the proposed learning algorithm is presented in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI) by imposing a polytopic structure on the Lyapunov matrix. The set of LMIs to be determined considers the bounds on the rate of variation of the… More >

XINGYU MEI, ZHOUWEI WU, CHENGZHONG ZHANG, YUE SUN, WEIMIN SHI^*

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.6, pp. 1551-1559, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.015376

Abstract Vitiligo results in an autoimmune disorder destructing skin pigment cells, melanocytes (Mcs). This study aimed to investigate whether Astragaloside IV (AIV) could efficiently induce differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) into Mcs. BMMSCs were induced and differentiated into Mcs with 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 mg/L AIV during 150-day. Morphologic changes of differentiated cells were observed. Levels of some melanocytic specific genes (TRP-1, TRP-2, MART-1, Mitf) were measured with quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) at 90, 120, and 150 days of induction. After 90-day induction, the differentiated cells with 0.4 mg/L AIV demonstrated the typical morphology of Mcs, positive… More >

Wenjun Gao¹, Yang Yang^1,*, Hongtao Duan¹, Mingsheng Li¹, Jinrong Ma¹, Songwei Jin²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.39, No.1, pp. 69-85, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.016475

Abstract The two-dimensional (2-D) system has a wide range of applications in different fields, including satellite meteorological maps, process control, and digital filtering. Therefore, the research on the stability of 2-D systems is of great significance. Considering that multiple systems exist in switching and alternating work in the actual production process, but the system itself often has external perturbation and interference. To solve the above problems, this paper investigates the output feedback robust H_∞ stabilization for a class of discrete-time 2-D switched systems, which the Roesser model with uncertainties represents. First, sufficient conditions for exponential stability are derived via the average… More >

Laurence Desjardins^*

Oncologie, Vol.22, No.4, pp. 189-194, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.012377

Abstract We describe the most frequent malignant intraocular tumors, conjunctival tumors and some lids and orbital tumors. Primary intraocular malignant tumors are retinoblastoma in children and uveal melanoma in adults. For uveal melanoma, the liver is the most frequent site of metastasis and this is why it is justified to prescribe liver ultrasonography every 6 months to these patients. Metastatic tumors can occur in the uvea and more frequently in the posterior part called the choroid. They are more frequent after breast cancer and lung cancer. Conjunctival tumors can be epithelial (benign papillomas and epidermoid carcinomas) or melanocytic (benign naevi and… More >

Jcy Chen^1,*, Wc Chen¹, Tim Chen¹, Alex Wilson², N. Fadilah Jamaludin³, Nertrand Kapron¹, Tim Chen^4,5, John Burno⁵

Sound & Vibration, Vol.53, No.6, pp. 245-250, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sv.2019.04233

Abstract This paper proposes a novel artificial intelligence sythethized controller in the mechanical system which has high speed computation because of the LMI type criterion. The proposed membership functions are adopted and stabilization criterion of the closed-loop T-S fuzzy systems are obtained through a new parametrized LMI (linear matrix) inequality which is rearranged by machine learning membership functions. More >