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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

Norwegian honey bees surviving Varroa destructor mite infestations by means of natural selection

Melissa A.Y. Oddie, Bjørn Dahle, Peter Neumann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3956 PubMed 29085753

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 3, 2017

A preliminary survey of zoantharian endosymbionts shows high genetic variation over small geographic scales on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan

Hatsuko Noda, John Everett Parkinson, Sung-Yin Yang, James Davis Reimer