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Understanding which viral variants evade neutralization is crucial for improving antibody-based treatments, especially with rapidly evolving viruses like SARS-CoV-2. Yet, conventional assays are labor intensive and cannot capture the full spectrum of variants. We present a deep learning approach to predict changes in neutralizing antibody activity of COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccine-elicited sera/plasma against emerging viral variants. Our approach leverages data of 67,885 unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike sequences and 7,069 in vitro assays. The resulting model accurately predicted fold changes in neutralizing activity (R = 0.77) for a test set (N = 980) of data collected up to eight months after the training data. Next, the model was used to predict changes in activity of current therapeutic and vaccine-induced antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 lineages. Consistent with other work, we found significantly reduced activity against newer XBB descendants, notably EG.5, FL.1.5.1, and XBB.1.16; primarily attributed to the F456L spike mutation.
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Hum Brain Mapp
September 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Postoperative aphasia (POA) is a common complication in patients undergoing surgery for language-eloquent lesions. This study aimed to enhance the prediction of POA by leveraging preoperative navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) language mapping and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-based tractography, incorporating deep learning (DL) algorithms. One hundred patients with left-hemispheric lesions were retrospectively enrolled (43 developed postoperative aphasia, as the POA group; 57 did not, as the non-aphasia (NA) group).
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September 2025
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Pavia, Via Taramelli 12, Pavia 27100, Italy.
Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methodologies have significantly advanced drug discovery and design in several aspects. Additionally, the integration of structure-based data has proven to successfully support and improve the models' predictions. Indeed, we previously demonstrated that combining molecular dynamics (MD)-derived descriptors with ML models allows to effectively classify kinase ligands as allosteric or orthosteric.
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September 2025
Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
In recent AI-driven disease diagnosis, the success of models has depended mainly on extensive data sets and advanced algorithms. However, creating traditional data sets for rare or emerging diseases presents significant challenges. To address this issue, this study introduces a direct-self-attention Wasserstein generative adversarial network (DSAWGAN) designed to improve diagnostic capabilities in infectious diseases with limited data availability.
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September 2025
Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Division, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Purpose: To develop a deep learning-based reconstruction method for highly accelerated 3D time-of-flight MRA (TOF-MRA) that achieves high-quality reconstruction with robust generalization using extremely limited acquired raw data, addressing the challenge of time-consuming acquisition of high-resolution, whole-head angiograms.
Methods: A novel few-shot learning-based reconstruction framework is proposed, featuring a 3D variational network specifically designed for 3D TOF-MRA that is pre-trained on simulated complex-valued, multi-coil raw k-space datasets synthesized from diverse open-source magnitude images and fine-tuned using only two single-slab experimentally acquired datasets. The proposed approach was evaluated against existing methods on acquired retrospectively undersampled in vivo k-space data from five healthy volunteers and on prospectively undersampled data from two additional subjects.
Behav Res Methods
September 2025
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, Prague, Czech Republic.
Automatic markerless estimation of infant posture and motion from ordinary videos carries great potential for movement studies "in the wild", facilitating understanding of motor development and massively increasing the chances of early diagnosis of disorders. There has been a rapid development of human pose estimation methods in computer vision, thanks to advances in deep learning and machine learning. However, these methods are trained on datasets that feature adults in different contexts.
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