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October 2017

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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.

October 31, 2017

Record breaking achievements by spiders and the scientists who study them

17 citations

5,182 downloads

46,493 views

Stefano Mammola, Peter Michalik, Eileen A. Hebets, Marco Isaia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3972 PubMed 29104823

October 13, 2017

Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei)

17 citations

1,372 downloads

6,981 views

Keith M. Bayha, Allen G. Collins, Patrick M. Gaffney

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3863 PubMed 29043109

October 31, 2017

Land snails of Leptopoma Pfeiffer, 1847 in Sabah, Northern Borneo (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae): an analysis of molecular phylogeny and geographical variations in shell form

2 citations

508 downloads

2,047 views

Chee-Chean Phung, Pooi-San Heng, Thor-Seng Liew

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3981 PubMed 29104827

October 10, 2017

Infection of army ant pupae by two new parasitoid mites (Mesostigmata: Uropodina)

3 citations

473 downloads

3,746 views

Adrian Brückner, Hans Klompen, Andrew Iain Bruce, Rosli Hashim, Christoph von Beeren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3870 PubMed 29038753

October 6, 2017

Cryptic biodiversity and phylogeographic patterns of Seychellois Ligia isopods

3 citations

427 downloads

2,185 views

Carlos A. Santamaria, Joanna K. Bluemel, Nancy Bunbury, Melinda Curran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3894 PubMed 29018626

October 19, 2017

First record of the family Sphyrapodidae Guţu, 1980 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Apseudomorpha) with the description of a new species of Sphyrapus from the Colombian Caribbean

1 citation

414 downloads

2,256 views

Andrés G. Morales-Núñez, Catalina Morales-Ruiz, Néstor E. Ardila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3947 PubMed 29071166

October 3, 2017

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

11 citations

340 downloads

1,896 views

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3740 PubMed 29018596

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