Review
Allergy
Alessandro Bruno, Carmelo Gurnari, Tobias Alexander, John A. Snowden, Raffaella Greco
Summary: VEXAS is a novel disease with a variety of clinical features, mainly affecting men and presenting symptoms in the fifth to sixth decade of life. It has attracted medical interest due to its association with multiple medical conditions. However, its recognition in everyday clinical practice is challenging and requires close collaboration between different medical specialists. The treatment and diagnostic guidelines for VEXAS are exploratory and include rheumatological and supportive care treatments. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may be curative, but its position in the treatment algorithm is yet to be defined.
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Rondi B. Gelbard, Michael W. Cripps
Summary: By understanding common sources of bias in clinical research and potential solutions, readers can critically evaluate scientific literature and determine the validity of conclusions.
SURGICAL INFECTIONS
(2021)
Review
Pathology
Diana M. Oramas, Cesar A. Moran
Summary: The article discusses the importance of interpreting biopsy specimens in thymoma diagnosis, emphasizing limitations in interpreting small biopsies and the need for adequate clinical and radiological information for proper evaluation. It also touches on the difficulties in distinguishing other tumors from thymomas.
ADVANCES IN ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Edmond M. M. Kwan, Alexander W. W. Wyatt, Kim N. N. Chi
Summary: In this review, the current and emerging applications of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis in metastatic prostate cancer, such as outcome prediction, treatment selection, and characterization of treatment resistance, are summarized. The potential pitfalls with interpreting ctDNA findings are also discussed, along with the need to overcome these limitations to facilitate clinical implementation.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Malak Itani, Neeraj Lalwani, Mark A. Anderson, Hina Arif-Tiwari, Raj Mohan Paspulati, Anup S. Shetty
Summary: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is a noninvasive diagnostic tool for pancreatic and biliary disease. It is important for radiologists to optimize the acquisition technique, be aware of factors affecting its performance, and understand common artifacts and pitfalls encountered during interpretation.
ABDOMINAL RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Devaki Shilpa Sudha Surasi, Praneeth Kalva, Ken-Pin Hwang, Tharakeswara Kumar Bathala
Summary: mpMR imaging is a valuable tool for diagnosing and staging prostate cancer, often superior to traditional methods. Standardized protocols aid in evaluating prostate mpMR imaging. Radiologists need to thoroughly study prostate imaging and be aware of potential pitfalls. Additional sequences can improve tumor detection sensitivity. This study emphasizes the importance of recognizing factors that complicate prostate MR imaging interpretation.
RADIOLOGIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
(2024)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
John N. Louie, Aasha Pancha, B. Kissane
Summary: The geotechnical industry widely uses the refraction microtremor shear-wave velocity measurement technique for seismic site evaluation. 2D analysis allows engineers to image lateral shear-wave velocity variations and do passive subsurface imaging. A new criterion of 2.2% minimum microtremor energy helps assess the likelihood of correct results in commercial refraction microtremor surveys.
JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Ecology
Richard Glennie, Timo Adam, Vianey Leos-Barajas, Theo Michelot, Theoni Photopoulou, Brett T. McClintock
Summary: This paper reviews five lesser known pitfalls when using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) or their extensions to solve ecological problems, and discusses opportunities for future research to address these pitfalls.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Marcin Niedbala, Katarzyna Malarz, Gitanjali Sharma, Gabriela Kramer-Marek, Wojciech Kaspera
Summary: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary central nervous system tumour in adults. The current standard of care for GBM, including surgery and chemoradiotherapy, is not effective in providing a durable response due to the heterogeneous and immune-escaping nature of GBM. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop more effective therapeutic approaches, such as immunotherapy.
ONCOTARGETS AND THERAPY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Ornithology
Cristian Perez-Granados
Summary: Automated recognition software, such as BirdNET, is crucial for effective passive acoustic monitoring. Despite growing popularity, BirdNET has been subject to few assessments, hindering the interpretation of ecological results and decision-making. Studies evaluating BirdNET show relatively high average precision (72-85% of correctly identified detections) and recall rate (33-84% of target species vocalizations detected), but few have linked BirdNET detections to ecological processes or real-world monitoring schemes. Recommendations for evaluating BirdNET efficiency and considering the confidence score threshold are provided.
Article
Biology
Sarah C. Hull, Joyce M. Oen-Hsiao, Erica S. Spatz
Summary: Telehealth has the potential to improve efficiency, convenience, and quality in healthcare, but it is important to consider the practical and ethical implications to avoid undermining or devaluing care delivery.
YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Jose C. Alvarez-Payares, Jesus David Bello-Simanca, Edwin De Jesus De La Pena-Arrieta, Jose Emilio Agamez-Gomez, Jhon Edwar Garcia-Rueda, Amilkar Rodriguez-Arrieta, Luis Antonio Rodriguez-Arrieta
Summary: Endocrine tests are crucial for diagnosing various diseases, but they can be influenced by different factors, leading to misdiagnosis. Recognition of these situations is key for clinicians to provide accurate interpretation and diagnosis for the best outcomes for patients.
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Annelies Keymeulen, Els De Leenheer, Julie Goderis, Ingeborg Dhooge, Koenraad Smets, An Boudewyns, Alexandra Casaer, Veerle Cossey, Christian De Sloover, Rudolf Kuhweide, Ludo Mahieu, Gunnar Naulaers, Liesbeth Royackers, Isabelle Schatteman, Christine Van Mol
Summary: A prospective multicentre registry was established in 2007 to collect data on children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection in Flanders, aiming to evaluate management and therapy consensus. Over 686 children were registered between 2007 and 2017, with data on prenatal and neonatal characteristics reported. The study reflects on 11 years of data collection, addressing both pitfalls and opportunities for future management strategies.
ACTA CLINICA BELGICA
(2021)
Article
Geography
Christopher G. Prener, Branson Fox
Summary: Geocoding, the process of converting street addresses into coordinates, presents challenges for researchers. This article introduces open-source tools for standardizing American addresses and geocoding. A composite geocoder for St. Louis is created as a proof-of-concept, providing high positional accuracy and efficiency increases compared to commercial providers.
TRANSACTIONS IN GIS
(2021)
Article
Pathology
Ashley Cimino-Mathews
Summary: Immunohistochemistry plays a crucial role in diagnostic breast pathology, with new assays providing additional tools for identifying breast tumors and potential pitfalls to avoid. Novel immunostains like GATA3 and Sox10 help in distinguishing triple negative breast carcinoma, while novel markers serve as surrogates for molecular alterations in special-type breast carcinomas. Despite imperfections, PD-L1 immunohistochemistry is an emerging biomarker for breast cancer immunotherapy.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Abdullah Othman, Naveed Iqbal, Sherif M. Hanafy, Umair Bin Waheed
Summary: This study introduces a workflow for automatic detection and denoising of passive seismic events using a deep neural network and noise suppression techniques. The method does not require prior knowledge and can work with various types of signals and noises, demonstrating high accuracy in real data sets.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Jing Li, Lige Bai, Hai Liu
Summary: The LRPR carried by CE-5 has explored the lunar subsurface structure and guided sampling procedures, and a multiscale FWI method with TV regularization has been used to evaluate its performance. The strategy has successfully reduced signal scattering and provided reliable imaging for sampling, demonstrating improved inversion accuracy.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sherif M. Hanafy
Summary: This study proposes an acquisition setup for seismic high-resolution subsurface mapping that can be used in engineering and environmental applications. Compared to the conventional setup, this alternative setup is faster, more accurate, and provides higher resolution. The results indicate that the conventional setup can reach greater depths but with lower accuracy, while the land-streamer setup offers accurate near-surface results but with shallower penetration depth.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Lige Bai, Jing Li, Zhaofa Zeng
Summary: This study investigates the anisotropic magnetotelluric (MT) response during water injection fracturing in hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal. The characteristics of fracture strike and dip angle are calculated using the residual phase tensor (PT) method. The results demonstrate that the MT method can explain the anisotropic resistivity structure changes caused by water injection, providing a reliable scientific basis for fracture distribution direction and spreading characteristics.
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Zongwei Yao, Hongxu Xu, Jing Li, Tianshuang Xu
Summary: This study conducted a multi-objective optimal design of stirring tanks using numerical simulation, surrogate model, NSGA-II, Entropy Weighting Method, and Analytic Hierarchical Process. The complex and time-consuming traditional design method was addressed to improve design efficiency. The accuracy of the simulation results was validated using computational fluid dynamics and Particle Image Velocimetry. The key parameters were predicted using a Kriging model established based on experimental designs using the Latin Hypercube method. The optimal solution obtained through NSGA-II optimization algorithm showed improved suspension uniformity by 0.7% and reduced power consumption by 48.3% compared to the initial design, as determined by the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Entropy Weighting Method.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jiahe Yan, Zhaofa Zeng, Xueyu Zhao, Baizhou An, Lige Bai, Jianwei Zhao, Jing Li
Summary: Grotto rock structure detection is crucial for the protection and restoration of grottoes. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is commonly used for this purpose. However, the traditional ERT measurements face challenges in terms of accuracy and resolution in cliff regions. To address this, a new BSC-ERT scheme is proposed, which combines borehole-to-surface ERT and surface-to-cliff ERT using the AM-BN array configuration. Numerical experiments show that this combination yields better imaging effects and a more reasonable detection range, making it recommended for future work. It is also demonstrated that the symmetric effect generated in the AM-BN array in the BS-ERT scheme can be suppressed with the combination of the SC-ERT scheme.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sherif Mohamed Hanafy, Abdullah Al-Mashhor, Abdullatif Abdulrahman Al-Shuhail
Summary: This study quantitatively investigates the performance of a seismic receiver array in the presence of topographic variations and positioning errors. The study calculates the errors in receiver positions and elevation using Differential GPS measurements and analyzes their effects. The results show that correcting for elevation errors significantly enhances the performance of the seismic receiver array.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Hui Liu, Jing Li, Yibo Wang
Summary: Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a new seismic observation technique that can record strain rate data with high resolution and directly invert velocity structures, showing great potential for high-resolution velocity tomography.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Lige Bai, Jing Li, Zhaofa Zeng, Kun Wang
Summary: This paper develops a heat transfer adaptive finite-element equation parameter inversion workflow and applies it to the Gonghe Basin, providing a new method to reveal the distribution and formation mechanisms of geothermal resources.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Chunyu Ding, Jing Li, Rong Hu
Summary: The Moon-based ground-penetrating radar (GPR) onboard the Chang'E-4 (CE-4) Yutu-2 rover has deployed on the Moon's far side, providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the shallow surface geological process and the history of the volcanic eruption of the Moon. The high-frequency radar observed a buried lens structure similar to 27 m below the lunar surface, interpreted as paleoregolith by previous studies. Our quantitative analysis of the dielectric properties reveals that the buried lens structure is likely a basalt flow representing the latest volcanic eruption on the Moon, possibly from the Eratosthenian-aged volcano that occurred approximately 2.5-2.2 billion years ago.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Zhijun Huo, Ling Zhang, Zhaofa Zeng, Jing Li, Lin Li, Cai Liu
Summary: This article focuses on the importance of detecting the lunar underground structure and proposes a comprehensive lunar subsurface structure model. A set of processing flow is designed to interpret the detection data, including plane-wave destruction, velocity analysis, and migration imaging. The effectiveness of the imaging method is verified through forward modeling and validation experiments.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Chang Zhang, Jing Li, Han Yu, Bin Liu
Summary: Due to environmental variations and data acquisition inconsistencies, complex near-surface seismograms often have low SNR. This poses challenges for accurate first arrival identification in wave-equation traveltime inversion. In this article, an elastic WT inversion algorithm based on the autoencoder method (AEWT) is proposed to overcome these challenges. The AEWT method automatically extracts intrinsic features of refractions and provides more reliable and stable P-velocity tomograms.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Yicheng Zhou, Sherif M. Hanafy
Summary: This paper introduces a physics-based approach called waveform parsimonious refraction interferometry (WPRI) that improves coverage and reduces time and labor costs in exploration and engineering applications. The method generates virtual seismic refraction waveforms with high accuracy, which can be used for near-surface seismic waveform inversion and migration.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Rong Hu, Jing Li, Li Guo
Summary: In this article, a time-lapse GPR data full-waveform inversion (FWI) method is proposed to effectively monitor the spatial distribution of small-scale fluid transport and estimate SWC with improved accuracy. The method combines velocity spectral analysis and the structural similarity index (SSIM) to construct a permittivity model and introduces gradient normalization to balance the convergence rate of the permittivity and conductivity parameters during the inversion process. The proposed method is validated using typical GPR field data, and the estimated error in SWC is found to be less than 5%. The time-lapse GPR data processing protocol provides a quantitative means for monitoring small-scale fluid infiltration.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Han Yu, Sherif M. Hanafy, Lulu Liu
Summary: A weighted statics correction method is proposed in this article to estimate unwanted temporal shifts of traces using the closure-phase technique. Numerical tests show noticeable improvements in data quality compared to the conventional plus-minus (PM) method.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)