Text Font Correction and Alignment Method for Scene Text Recognition.

Text recognition is a rapidly evolving task with broad practical applications across multiple industries. However, due to the arbitrary-shape text arrangement, irregular text font, and unintended occlusion of font, this remains a challenging task. To handle images with arbitrary-shape text arrangement and irregular text font, we designed the Discriminative Standard Text Font (DSTF) and the Feature Alignment and Complementary Fusion (FACF).

Edge-guided multi-scale adaptive feature fusion network for liver tumor segmentation.

Automated segmentation of liver tumors on CT scans is essential for aiding diagnosis and assessing treatment. Computer-aided diagnosis can reduce the costs and errors associated with manual processes and ensure the provision of accurate and reliable clinical assessments. However, liver tumors in CT images vary significantly in size and have fuzzy boundaries, making it difficult for existing methods to achieve accurate segmentation.

Effect of optimal-water boiling cooking on the volatile compounds in 26 Japonica rice varieties from China.

The aim of this study was to scientifically investigate the impact of optimal-water boiling cooking on the volatile profile of 26 japonica rice varieties. A modified direct solvent extraction combined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was applied to analyze the volatiles in raw and cooked samples. 2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline (2AP) was only detected in aromatic varieties and decreased after cooking (-81.

Evolution of volatiles and quality of Chinese steamed bread during storage at different temperatures.

The aim of this work is to investigate the evolution of volatiles and quality of CSB during 4 d of storage at 4 °C and 25 °C, respectively. Rapidly increasing hardness and decreasing resilience were observed in CSB after 1 d of storage at 4 °C. However, relative soft CSB was found after 1 d of storage at 25 °C as a result of the lower rate of retrogradation.

Characteristics of alkali-extracted peanut polysaccharide-protein complexes and their ability as Pickering emulsifiers.

An alkaline isolation method was applied to extract polysaccharide from residues of peanut oil processing while retaining high protein content, in order to enhance the emulsifying ability of these materials. The obtained complexes (PECs) containing protein (13-18%, dry basis) were named as PEC8.0, PEC10.

Fate of phospholipids during aqueous extraction processing of peanut and effect of demulsification treatments on oil-phosphorus-content.

PC (phosphatidylcholine), PE (phosphatidylethanolamine), PI (phosphatidylinositol), and PA (phosphatidic acid) in 9 peanut matrices obtained during the AEP (aqueous extraction processing) of peanut were quantified employing HPLC-ELSD analysis in this study. Phosphorus contents of crude oils obtained from different demulsification treatments were also investigated. Decantation had a larger effect than grinding in terms of phospholipids loss due to alkaline-hydrolysis, indicating this processing step was vital for the manipulation of phospholipids levels remained in oil.

Impact of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine on the oxidative stability of stripped peanut oil and bulk peanut oil.

Effect of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on oxidation stability of stripped peanut oil (SPO) and bulk peanut oil (BPO) was investigated by EPR. Impact of commercial lecithin and cephalin on BPO oxidation was also studied. PC < 1000 ppm could not affect SPO oxidation but obviously accelerated oxidation above 1000 ppm.

Chain conformation and rheological properties of an acid-extracted polysaccharide from peanut sediment of aqueous extraction process.

A polysaccharide (PPS) in peanut sediment of aqueous extraction process was obtained at pH4.0, purified via anion-exchange chromatography. The composition, chain conformation and rheological properties were investigated.

Combination of thermal pretreatment and alcohol-assisted aqueous processing for rapeseed oil extraction.

Background: The alcohol-assisted aqueous extraction processing (AAEP) of oil has many advantages such as no need for demulsification and relative low cost compared with enzymatic aqueous extraction processing (EAEP). Three kinds of thermal pretreatments including dry-heating, wet-heating and soak-heating followed by the AAEP of rapeseed oil were investigated.

Results: Both soak-heating and wet-heating had a higher contribution rate to oil yield than dry-heating due to the enhancement of heat transfer rate owing to the high moisture content in the rapeseed cells.

Probing Temperature- and pH-Dependent Binding between Quantum Dots and Bovine Serum Albumin by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.

Luminescent quantum dots (QDs) with unique optical properties have potential applications in bio-imaging. The interaction between QDs and bio-molecules is important to the biological effect of QDs in vivo. In this paper, we have employed fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to probe the temperature- and pH-dependent interactions between CdSe QDs with carboxyl (QDs-COOH) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) in buffer solutions.