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- Explainable AI applied to the analysis of the climatic behavior of 11 years of Meteosat water vapor images
- A Fourier-transformed feature engineering design for predicting ternary perovskite properties by coupling a two-dimensional convolutional neural network with a support vector machine (Conv2D-SVM)
- Second harmonic generation microscopy: a powerful tool for bio-imaging
- Reconfigurable phase contrast microscopy with correlated photon pairs
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