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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 24, 2017

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas

Aylin Ulman, Jasmine Ferrario, Anna Occhpinti-Ambrogi, Christos Arvanitidis, Ada Bandi, Marco Bertolino, Cesare Bogi, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Burak Ali Çiçek, Alan Deidun, Alfonso Ramos-Esplá, Cengiz Koçak, Maurizio Lorenti, Gemma Martinez-Laiz, Guenda Merlo, Elisa Princisgh, Giovanni Scribano, Agnese Marchini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3954 PubMed 29085752

October 5, 2017

Clone wars: asexual reproduction dominates in the invasive range of Tubastraea spp. (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the South-Atlantic Ocean

Katia Cristina Cruz Capel, Robert J. Toonen, Caio T.C.C. Rachid, Joel C. Creed, Marcelo V. Kitahara, Zac Forsman, Carla Zilberberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3873 PubMed 29018611

October 10, 2017

Illegal use of natural resources in federal protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon

Érico E. Kauano, Jose M.C. Silva, Fernanda Michalski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3902 PubMed 29038758

October 12, 2017

Is geography an accurate predictor of evolutionary history in the millipede family Xystodesmidae?

Jackson C. Means, Paul E. Marek