Publications by authors named "Sajad Tavakoli"

Fungi provide valuable solutions for diverse biotechnological applications, such as enzymes in the food industry, bioactive metabolites for healthcare, and biocontrol organisms in agriculture. Current workflows for identifying new biocontrol fungi often rely on subjective visual observations of strains' performance in microbe-microbe interaction studies, making the process time-consuming and difficult to reproduce. To overcome these challenges, we developed an AI-automated image classification approach using machine learning algorithm based on deep neural network.

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Persistence and coexistence of many pond-breeding amphibians depend on seasonality. Temperature, as a seasonal climate component, affects numerous physical and biological processes of pond-breeding amphibians. Satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) is the radiative skin temperature of the land surface, which has received less attention in spatiotemporal seasonal habitat monitoring.

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Accurate and early detection of anomalies in peripheral white blood cells plays a crucial role in the evaluation of well-being in individuals and the diagnosis and prognosis of hematologic diseases. For example, some blood disorders and immune system-related diseases are diagnosed by the differential count of white blood cells, which is one of the common laboratory tests. Data is one of the most important ingredients in the development and testing of many commercial and successful automatic or semi-automatic systems.

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This article addresses a new method for the classification of white blood cells (WBCs) using image processing techniques and machine learning methods. The proposed method consists of three steps: detecting the nucleus and cytoplasm, extracting features, and classification. At first, a new algorithm is designed to segment the nucleus.

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