Academic Articles & Research Papers

Empowering text classification with NLP and explainable AI for enhanced interpretability

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) models have demonstrated significant success in classifying various types of text. However, the complex nature of these models often complicates the interpretability of their classifications. To address...

Using 311 data to develop an algorithm to identify urban blight for public health improvement.

The growth of administrative data made available publicly, often in near-real time, offers new opportunities for monitoring conditions that impact community health. Urban blight-manifestations of adverse social processes in the urban enviro...

Explainable Sentiment-Based Reputational Risk Modelling in Ugandan Megaprojects

Reputational risk reflected in digital public discourse can significantly influence stakeholder perceptions, public trust, and decision-making surrounding government megaprojects. Existing computational approaches primarily focus on sentime...

Development and External Validation of a Machine Learning Model for Automated Feedback Quality Assessment in Chinese Anesthesiology Residency Training

Lifeng Yao, Yijun Chen, Jing Shen, Junge Zhang, Yiwei Zhang, Guojin Liang, Yiqin Ji Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yijun Chen, De...

Unpacking Public Perceptions of Qris with Twitter Data: A Vader And LDA Methodology

QRIS, a mobile payment transaction system standardized by Bank Indonesia, has become the subject of extensive public discourse on Twitter. Employing VADER for sentiment analysis and LDA for topic modeling, this study aims to capture the nua...

Artificial Intelligence in Routine IVF Practice

Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool in in vitro fertilization (IVF) as it has done in other sectors. In IVF, AI offers advancements in embryo selection, treatment personalization, and outcome predic...

Development and Validation of a Health Measure for Down Syndrome.

Attack-Aware Deepfake Detection Under Counter-Forensic Manipulations

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated and manipulated visual content requires forensic detectors that remain reliable after routine processing and deliberate counter-forensic modification. This paper presents an attack-aware deepfake dete...

Cross-Correlation-Based Structural System Identification Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Computer vision techniques have been employed to characterize dynamic properties of structures, as well as to capture structural motion for system identification purposes. All of these methods leverage image-processing techniques using a st...

Implementation and Design of a Smart Pharmacy Automation System Using Raspberry Pi

Manual medication dispensing in pharmacies remains prone to human errors and is time-intensive, particularly under high patient loads, while existing commercial automation solutions are cost-prohibitive for small to medium-sized pharmacy se...

Validation of Single-Camera MediaPipe BlazePose for Knee Joint Angle Measurement Across Multiple Functional Tasks: Concurrent Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Exploratory Test-Retest Reliability Study.

Vision-Based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Autonomous landing on the deck of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is still a major challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, a fiducial marker is located on the platform so as to facilitate the task since it is possibl...

Autonomous Robotic Platform for Precision Viticulture: Integrated Mobility, Multimodal Sensing, and AI-Based Leaf Sampling

Viticulture is facing growing economic and environmental pressures that demand a transition toward intelligent and autonomous crop management systems. Phytopathologies remain one of the most critical threats, causing substantial yield losse...

Multistage Convolutional Neural Network With Deformable Attention for Word-Level Offline Text-Independent Writer Identification

Offline writer identification is an essential component of biometric and forensic security fields, focusing on identifying the authors of handwritten documents in physical form. Historically, this approach has focused on text-dependent iden...

Computer vision applications in vascular surgery: From preoperative mapping to intraoperative flow assessment

Artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) are increasingly applied in vascular surgery for preoperative mapping and intraoperative flow/perfusion assessment, with potential to enhance safety and efficiency. However, the extent o...

Lightweight Two-Layer Control Architecture for Human-Following Robot

(1) Background: Human detection and tracking are critical tasks for assistive autonomous robots, particularly in ensuring safe and efficient human–robot interaction in indoor environments. The increasing need for personal assistance among t...

A Comprehensive Joint Learning System to Detect Skin Cancer

Skin, the body’s biggest organ and a barrier against heat, light, damage, and infection can be affected by many diseases. However, a correct diagnosis can lead to proper treatment. Skin diseases must be identified early to reduce ski...

Role of Smart Image Segmentation in Infection Diagnosis and Monitoring of Acute Surgical Wounds

Background/Purpose: There are challenges in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for acute wound healing assessment due to limited data availability, the dynamic nature of healing, and inter-patient variability. These challenges require fu...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Structural Health Monitoring and Computer Vision-Aided Procedure for Seismic Safety Measures of Linear Infrastructures

Computer vision in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field has become popular, especially for processing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, but still has limitations both in experimental testing and in practical applications. Prior wo...

Enabling scalable inspection of offshore mooring systems using cost-effective autonomous underwater drones

As aquaculture expands to meet global food demand, it remains dependent on manual, costly, infrequent, and high-risk operations due to reliance on high-end Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Scalable and autonomous systems are needed to ena...