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In many real-world scientific problems, generating ground truth (GT) for supervised learning is almost impossible. The causes include limitations imposed by scientific instrument, physical phenomenon itself, or the complexity of modeling.…
Counting cells in fluorescent microscopy is a tedious, time-consuming task that researchers have to accomplish to assess the effects of different experimental conditions on biological structures of interest. Although such objects are…
The efficient and voidless filling of microcavities is of great importance for Lab-on-a-Chip applications. However, predicting whether microcavities will be filled or not under different circumstances is still difficult due to the local…
Three-dimensional electrical capacitance tomography (3D-ECT) has shown promise for visualizing industrial multiphase flows. However, existing 3D-ECT approaches suffer from limited imaging resolution and lack assessment metrics, hampering…
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