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October 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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

Assessing the living and dead proportions of cold-water coral colonies: implications for deep-water Marine Protected Area monitoring in a changing ocean

Johanne Vad, Covadonga Orejas, Juan Moreno-Navas, Helen S. Findlay, J. Murray Roberts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3705 PubMed 29018595

October 18, 2017

Ongoing removals of invasive lionfish in Honduras and their effect on native Caribbean prey fishes

Friederike Peiffer, Sonia Bejarano, Giacomo Palavicini de Witte, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3818 PubMed 29062597

October 11, 2017

Light induced intraspecific variability in response to thermal stress in the hard coral Stylophora pistillata

Arjen Tilstra, Tim Wijgerde, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Joana Falcão Salles, Ido Pen, Ronald Osinga, Christian Wild