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Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Malignant colorectal cancer

October 3, 2017

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over conventional image processing methods. Here, researchers present a deep neural network-based approach for segmentation and classification of glands in tissue of benign and malignant colorectal cancer.

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October 13, 2017

The intervals method: a new approach to analyse finite element outputs using multivariate statistics

Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, Thomas A. Püschel, Josep Fortuny

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3793 PubMed 29043107

October 31, 2017

Male-male competition and female choice are differentially affected by male call acoustics in the serrate-legged small treefrog, Kurixalus odontotarsus

Bicheng Zhu, Jichao Wang, Longhui Zhao, Qinghua Chen, Zhixin Sun, Yue Yang, Steven E. Brauth, Yezhong Tang, Jianguo Cui

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3980 PubMed 29104826

October 23, 2017

Learning performance and brain structure of artificially-reared honey bees fed with different quantities of food

Karin Steijven, Johannes Spaethe, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Stephan Härtel