cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chloromelas barbata LINDNER 1935
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Couri, Márcia Souto
name: Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Chloromelas
Chloromelas barbata

description: Chloromelas barbata Lindner, 1935
(Figs 14–15)
LINDNER, 1935: 410 (ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION).
Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Serra da Cantareira.
Holotype ♂ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Type | Lindner | 1935 [in vertical position]”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Chloromelas | barbata | Lind. [Lindner]”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “S. Paulo-Cantareira [Brazil, State of São Paulo, Serra da Cantareira] | Serra | L. Trav. Fº [L. Travassos Filho] | 31x -1934 [31.x.1934]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.044”; (5) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”. Condition of type: good. Missing parts: tibiae and tarsomeres of all left legs, and femora of left mid leg. Additional note: holotype by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Couri, Márcia Souto & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2016, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in the collection of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 361-376 in Zootaxa 4084 (3) on page 371, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1052161
Glariopsis brasiliana LINDNER 1935
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Couri, Márcia Souto
name: Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Glariopsis
Glariopsis brasiliana

description: Glariopsis brasiliana Lindner, 1935
(Figs 16–17)
LINDNER, 1935: 413 (ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION); 397, FIGS 1 (HEAD, LATERAL VIEW) AND 5 (ABDOMEN, DORSAL VIEW).
Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Angra [Angra dos Reis], Jussaral.
Holotype ♂ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “Type | Lindner | 1935 [in vertical position]”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Glariopsis | brasiliana | Lind. [Lindner]”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “BRASIL [in vertical position] | JUSSARAL | ANGRA-S. DO RIO [Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] | L.TRAV.ET. LOPES [L. Travassos and Lopes] | X-934 [x.1934]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.043”.
Condition of type: terminal part of abdomen and terminalia retained in a microvial with glycerin pinned below the specimen. Missing parts: pedicel and flagellomeres of left antenna, flagellomeres 4–6 of right antenna, right wing and halter, right fore leg and all tarsomeres of left fore leg, mid and hind right legs.
Additional note: holotype by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Couri, Márcia Souto & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2016, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in the collection of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 361-376 in Zootaxa 4084 (3) on page 373, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1052161
Nothomyia borgmeieri Lindner 1933
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Couri, Márcia Souto
name: Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Nothomyia
Nothomyia borgmeieri

description: Nothomyia borgmeieri (Lindner, 1933)
(Figs 18–19)
LINDNER, 1933: 202–203 (Berisargus) (ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION); 202, FIGS 1 (HEAD, LATERAL VIEW) AND 2 (WING). WOODLEY, 1985: 88 (KEY TO SPECIES).
Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Alto da Serra.
Syntype ♂ with labels: (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions: “ XII-28 [xii.1928] [in vertical position] | São Paulo [State of São Paulo, Brazil] | Alto da Serra ”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Berisargus | borgmeieri | Lindner det. 32 [1932]”; (3) handwritten on white paper: Type | Lindner | 1933 [in vertical position]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.018”; (5) printed on red paper: “ Typus ”; (6) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”.
Condition of type: good. Missing part: left fore leg.
Additional note: the female syntype is in the SMNS (Woodley, 2001).
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Couri, Márcia Souto & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2016, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in the collection of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 361-376 in Zootaxa 4084 (3) on page 373, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1052161
Nothomyia fasciatipennis Lindner 1935
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Couri, Márcia Souto
name: Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Nothomyia
Nothomyia fasciatipennis

description: Nothomyia fasciatipennis (Lindner, 1935)
(Figs 20–21)
LINDNER, 1935: 401–402 (Berisargus) (ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION); 397, FIG. 12 (ANTENNA). WOODLEY, 1985: 88 (KEY TO SPECIES).
Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Jussaral.
Holotype ♂ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Type | Lindner | 1935 [in vertical position]”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Berisargus | fasciatipen- | nis | Lind. [Lindner]”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ BRASIL [in vertical position] | JUSSARAL | ANGRA-S. DO RIO [Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] | L. TRAV.ET. LOPES [L. Travassos and Lopes] | X-934 [x.1934] [in vertical position]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.028”; (5) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”.
Condition of type: good.
Additional note: holotype by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Couri, Márcia Souto & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2016, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in the collection of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 361-376 in Zootaxa 4084 (3) on page 373, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1052161
Nothomyia lopesi Lindner 1935
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Couri, Márcia Souto
name: Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Nothomyia
Nothomyia lopesi

description: Nothomyia lopesi (Lindner, 1935)
(Figs 22–23)
LINDNER, 1935: 401 (Berisargus) (ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION); 397, FIG. 11 (ANTENNA). WOODLEY, 1985: 88 (KEY TO SPECIES).
Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Jussaral.
Syntype ♂ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “Type | Lindner | 1935 [in vertical position]”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Berisargus | lopesi | Lind. [Lindner]”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “BRASIL [in vertical position] | JUSSARAL | ANGRA-E. DO RIO [Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] | L.TRAV.ET. LOPES [L. Travassos and Lopes] | X-934 [x.1934] [in vertical position]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.029”; (5) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”.
Condition of type: good. Missing parts: antenna left fore and mid legs, and right hind leg.
Syntype ♂ with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “ BRASIL [in vertical position] | JUSSARAL | ANGRA-E. DO RIO [Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] | L. TRAV.ET LOPES [L. Travassos and Lopes] | X-934 [in vertical position] [x.1934]”; (2) printed on white paper: “8.035”; (3) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”.
Condition of type: good.
Additional note: there is no any type label in this syntype specimen. However, we recognize it as a syntype following the information in the original description (Lindner 1935: 401) and in the World catalog of the family (Woodley 2001: 258).
Syntype ♀ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “Type | Lindner | 1935 [in vertical position]”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Berisargus | lopesi | Lind. [Lindner]”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “BRASIL [in vertical position] | JUSSARAL | ANGRA-E. DO RIO [Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] | L.TRAV.ET. LOPES [L. Travassos and Lopes] | X-934 [x.1934] [in vertical position]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.030”; (5) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”.
Condition of type: good.
Additional note: one male and one female syntype with the same locality data as the above female specimen are in the SMNS collection.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Couri, Márcia Souto & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2016, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in the collection of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 361-376 in Zootaxa 4084 (3) on pages 373-375, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1052161
MPBD-LSTM: A Predictive Model for Colorectal Liver Metastases Using Time Series Multi-phase Contrast-Enhanced CT Scans
Creators: name: Li, Xueyang
name: Xiao, Han
name: Weng, Weixiang
name: Xu, Xiaowei
name: Shi, Yiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Colorectal cancer is a prevalent form of cancer, and many patients develop colorectal cancer liver metastasis (CRLM) as a result. Early detection of CRLM is critical for improving survival rates. Radiologists usually rely on a series of multi-phase contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) scans done during follow-up visits to perform early detection of the potential CRLM. These scans form unique five-dimensional data (time, phase, and axial, sagittal, and coronal planes in 3D CT). Most of the existing deep learning models can readily handle four-dimensional data (e.g., time-series 3D CT images) and it is not clear how well they can be extended to handle the additional dimension of phase. In this paper, we build a dataset of time-series CECT scans to aid in the early diagnosis of CRLM, and build upon state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to evaluate how to best predict CRLM. Our experimental results show that a multi-plane architecture based on 3D bi-directional LSTM, which we call MPBD-LSTM, works best, achieving an area under curve (AUC) of 0.79. On the other hand, analysis of the results shows that there is still great room for further improvement.
Hastatobythites Nielsen, Schwarzhans & Cohen, 2012, n. gen.
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
name: Schwarzhans, Werner
name: Cohen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Bythitidae
Hastatobythites

description: Key to Hastatobythites, Saccogaster and Parasaccogaster n. gen.
1 Gill opening ends at or below level of dorsal margin of pectoral peduncle; pectoral peduncle attached to body; skin thick; eye sunk in, subdermal............................................................. Parasaccogaster n. gen. (p.26)
- Gill opening ends above level of dorsal margin of pectoral peduncle; pectoral peduncle free of body; skin thin (except in S. tuberculata); eye not subdermal.......................................................................... 2
2 Narrow head (5.6–6.0 % SL) and body (3.5–3.9 % SL); one anteriorly directed median spine above eyes; three bony ridges on frontal plate......................................................................... Hastatobythites (p.3)
- Broad head (10.5–15.0 % SL) and body (4.2–9.5 % SL); pair of spines above and behind eyes (absent in S. parva); no or single bony ridge on frontal plate................................................................ Saccogaster (p. 5)
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., Schwarzhans, Werner & Cohen, Daniel M., 2012, Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3579 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208677
Hastatobythites Machida 1997
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
name: Schwarzhans, Werner
name: Cohen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Bythitidae
Hastatobythites

description: Hastatobythites Machida, 1997
Hastatobythites Machida 1997: 385, type species by original designation Hastatobythites arafurensis Machida, 1997. Hastatobythites: Nielsen et al. 1999: 105.
Diagnosis. A monotypic genus of the subfamily Bythitinae (Cohen & Nielsen 1978: 42) with the following characters: two spines placed in midline of head, one anteriorly directed on frontal above eye and another upward directed, weak and thin on ethmoid, three bony ridges on dorsum behind frontal spine; maximum width of head 5.6–6.0% SL and of body 3.5–3.9 % SL. Also the following combination of characters is diagnostic: Elongate body with joined vertical fins; head naked and anterior part of body with scattered scales in midline and posterior half of body almost fully scaled; skin thin, translucent; eye diameter less than snout-length; opercular spine covered by skin; posterior part of maxilla greatly expanded vertically; dentigerous bones with granular teeth; palatines with 2–3 tooth rows; pectoral peduncle slightly longer than broad, not adnate; gill opening extending well above opercular spine; anterior gill arch with three long rakers; precaudal vertebrae 15 and total vertebrae 57–58; fin rays in dorsal 99–100, caudal 12, anal 64–65 and pectoral 16–17; otolith length to height = 2.5, sulcus undivided, placed in central part of inner face, otolith length to sulcus length = 2.7.
Similarity. Hastatobythites is most similar to Saccogaster in having more or less prolonged pectoral radials, naked head, teeth on palatines and thin skin. Hastatobythites differs from Saccogaster by having one median spine on frontal plate (vs. a pair or none), very narrow head (5.6–6.0 % SL vs. 10.5–15.0 % SL) and body (3.5–3.9 % SL vs. 4.2–9.5 % SL) and three median bony ridges behind frontal spine (absent or one in Saccogaster). Hastatobythites differs from Parasaccogaster n. gen. in the very narrow head, three median bony ridges behind frontal spine, prolonged free pectoral radials (vs. adnate) and the thin, tight head skin (vs. thick and loose).
Pectoral Dorsal Anal
Species 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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74
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76 78
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80
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82
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84
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86
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88
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90 92
– –
94 96
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98
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100 – 36 – 38 – 40 42 – – 44 46 – 48 – 50 – – 52 54 – 56 – 58 – 60 – 62 – 64 – H. arafurensis + + + + + P. melanomycter + + +
P. normae + + + + + + + + P. rhamphidognatha + + +
S. brayi + + +
S. hawaii + + + S. horrida + + + S. maculata + + + + + + + S. nikoliviae + + + + + + + +
S. parva + + + S. staigeri + + + + + + + S. tuberculata + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., Schwarzhans, Werner & Cohen, Daniel M., 2012, Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3579 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208677
Saccogaster Alcock 1889
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
name: Schwarzhans, Werner
name: Cohen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Bythitidae
Saccogaster

description: Saccogaster Alcock, 1889
Saccogaster Alcock 1889: 389, type species by monotypy Saccogaster maculata Alcock, 1889. Barbuliceps Chan 1966: 4, type species by original designation Barbuliceps tubercularis (lapsus pro tuberculatus) Chan, 1966. Saccogaster: Cohen & Nielsen 1972; Nielsen et al. 1999: 109.
Diagnosis. A genus of the subfamily Bythitinae (Cohen & Nielsen 1972) characterized by the following combination of characters: A pair of bony spines free or sub-dermal on frontal plate above and behind eyes and one median spine on ethmoid (except none in S. parva); elongate body with joined vertical fins; anal fin origin behind midpoint of fish; pectoral fins with elongated radials, not adnate; skin thin, translucent (except thick in adult S. tuberculata); scales absent on head and reduced or absent on body; opercular spine present, free in some species, covered by skin in others; maxilla vertically expanded posteriorly; palatine teeth present; gill opening extending well above dorsal margin of pectoral peduncle; developed gill rakers on anterior arch 3–6; pseudobranchial filaments 2; fin rays in dorsal 80–93, anal 51–64 and pectoral fin 14–22; precaudal vertebrae 12–21, total vertebrae 51–58; males with stalked intromittent organ.
Similarity. The most similar genus is Hastatobythites (see p. 3).
Species. The genus Saccogaster contains eight species known from 41 specimens of which three seem to be lost and two are only accessible at ZSI, Kolkata. Four are known from one specimen only, three species from 3– 6 specimens and one species from 18 specimens.
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., Schwarzhans, Werner & Cohen, Daniel M., 2012, Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3579 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208677
Saccogaster
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
name: Schwarzhans, Werner
name: Cohen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Bythitidae
Saccogaster

description: Key to the species of Saccogaster
1 Scales present on body................................................................................ 2
- Scales absent from body................................................................................ 6
2 Opercular spine free, with 3 prongs; pectoral fin rays 22; dorsal fin rays 92.................................. hawaii
- Opercular spine free or hidden, with single prong; pectoral fin rays 16–19; dorsal fin rays 80–88....................... 3
3 Gill filaments on anterior arch short (1/3–1/5 times length of developed rakers)................................... 4
- Gill filaments on anterior arch about equal to or longer than developed gill rakers.................................. 5
4 Scales present on predorsal; 12–13 precaudal vertebrae; no brown stripe on head; numerous neuromasts...... nikoliviae n.sp.
- Scales absent on predorsal; 21 precaudal vertebrae; broken brown stripe on sides of head; no neuromasts....... brayae n.sp.
5 Gill filaments on anterior arch distinctly longer than developed gill rakers; opercular spine free; palatines with several tooth rows; dorsal fin rays 83–85; posterior infraorbital pores 2, posterior supraorbital pore 1, posterior mandibular pore 1....... maculata
- Gill filaments on anterior arch 0.5–1 times length of developed gill rakers; opercular spine hidden; palatines with a single tooth row; dorsal fin rays 86–88; no posterior infraorbital pores, no posterior supraorbital pore, no posterior mandibular pore..................................................................................................... staigeri
6 Developed gill rakers on anterior arch 5–6; pectoral fin rays 14; numerous neuromasts........................... parva
- Developed gill rakers on anterior arch 3; pectoral fin rays 19–22; 0–3 neuromasts................................... 7
7 Skin thin; opercular spine free; spines on frontal plate visible, bony ridges above eyes; distance from base of pelvic fins to ori- gin of anal fin 46.0% SL; vomer and premaxillaries with fangs; no posterior mandibular pore.................... horrida
- Skin thick; opercular spine hidden; spines on frontal plate sub-dermal, no bony ridge above eyes; distance from base of pelvic fins to origin of anal fin 32.0–39.0 % SL; no fangs, dentition granular; large posterior mandibular pore......... tuberculata
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., Schwarzhans, Werner & Cohen, Daniel M., 2012, Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3579 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208677
A Machine Hearing System for Robust Cough Detection Based on a High-Level Representation of Band-Specific Audio Features
Creators: name: Monge-Alvarez, Jesús
name: Hoyos-Barceló, Carlos
name: San-José-Revuelta, Luis M.
name: Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cough is a protective reflex conveying information on the state of the respiratory system. Cough assessment has been limited so far to subjective measurement tools or uncomfortable (i.e., non-wearable) cough monitors. This limits the potential of real-time cough monitoring to improve respiratory care. Objective: This paper presents a machine hearing system for audio-based robust cough segmentation that can be easily deployed in mobile scenarios. Methods: Cough detection is performed in two steps. First, a short-term spectral feature set is separately computed in five predefined frequency bands: [0, 0.5), [0.5, 1), [1, 1.5), [1.5, 2), and [2, 5.5125] kHz. Feature selection and combination are then applied to make the short-term feature set robust enough in different noisy scenarios. Second, high-level data representation is achieved by computing the mean and standard deviation of short-term descriptors in 300 ms long-term frames. Finally, cough detection is carried out using a support vector machine trained with data from different noisy scenarios. The system is evaluated using a patient signal database which emulates three real-life scenarios in terms of noise content. Results: The system achieves 92.71% sensitivity, 88.58% specificity, and 90.69% Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC), outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Conclusion: Our research outcome paves the way to create a device for cough monitoring in real-life situations. Significance: Our proposal is aligned with a more comfortable and less disruptive patient monitoring, with benefits for patients (allows self-monitoring of cough symptoms), practitioners (e.g., assessment of treatments or better clinical understanding of cough patterns), and national health systems (by reducing hospitalizations).
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables
Open Source Evolutionary Computation with Chips-n-Salsa
Creators: name: Cicirello, Vincent A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.8; F.2.2
subject: 68W50, 68T05, 68T20, 68W20

description: When it was first introduced, the Chips-n-Salsa Java library provided stochastic local search and related algorithms, with a focus on self-adaptation and parallel execution. For the past four years, we expanded its scope to include evolutionary computation. This paper concerns the evolutionary algorithms that Chips-n-Salsa now provides, which includes multiple evolutionary models, common problem representations, a wide range of mutation and crossover operators, and a variety of benchmark problems. Well-defined Java interfaces enable easily integrating custom representations and evolutionary operators, as well as defining optimization problems. Chips-n-Salsa's evolutionary algorithms include implementations with adaptive mutation and crossover rates, as well as both sequential and parallel execution. Source code is maintained on GitHub, and immutable artifacts are regularly published to the Maven Central Repository to enable easily importing into projects for reproducible builds. Effective development processes such as test-driven development, as well as a variety of static analysis tools help ensure code quality.
Optimizing Genetic Algorithms Using the Binomial Distribution
Creators: name: Cicirello, Vincent A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.8; F.2.2
subject: 68W50, 68T05, 68T20, 68W20

description: Evolutionary algorithms rely very heavily on randomized behavior. Execution speed, therefore, depends strongly on how we implement randomness, such as our choice of pseudorandom number generator, or the algorithms used to map pseudorandom values to specific intervals or distributions. In this paper, we observe that the standard bit-flip mutation of a genetic algorithm (GA), uniform crossover, and the GA control loop that determines which pairs of parents to cross are all in essence binomial experiments. We then show how to optimize each of these by utilizing a binomial distribution and sampling algorithms to dramatically speed the runtime of a GA relative to the common implementation. We implement our approach in the open-source Java library Chips-n-Salsa. Our experiments validate that the approach is orders of magnitude faster than the common GA implementation, yet produces solutions that are statistically equivalent in solution quality.
Parasaccogaster Nielsen, Schwarzhans & Cohen, 2012, n.gen.
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
name: Schwarzhans, Werner
name: Cohen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Bythitidae
Parasaccogaster

description: Parasaccogaster n.gen.
Type species: Saccogaster normae Cohen & Nielsen, 1972
Diagnosis. A genus of the subfamily Bythitinae (Cohen & Nielsen 1978) characterized by the following combination of characters: Scales absent on head and body, head skin thick and loose; eyes sunk-in below transparent skin-window; gill opening at level of or below dorsal margin of pectoral peduncle; head width 7.7–12.0 % SL, maxilla vertically expanded posteriorly; a median or a pair of small bony spines on frontals covered by skin above and behind eyes; palatine teeth present; developed gill rakers on anterior arch 2–3, pseudobranchial filaments 2; males with stalked intromittent organ; vertical fins joined, anal fin origin behind midpoint of fish, pectoral fin radials slightly longer than high, peduncle adnate to body; pectoral fin rays 12–19; precaudal vertebrae 14–20.
Similarity. The most similar genera are Hastatobythites and Saccogaster. Parasaccogaster differs from both genera by having thick skin with sunk-in eyes, pectoral peduncle adnate to body and gill opening ending at level with or below dorsal margin of pectoral peduncle.
Etymology. Parasaccogaster refers to the similarity to Saccogaster.
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., Schwarzhans, Werner & Cohen, Daniel M., 2012, Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3579 on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208677
A new flower pollination algorithm for equalization in synchronous DS/CDMA multiuser communication systems
Creators: name: San-José-Revuelta, Luis M.
name: Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This work proposes a modified version of an emerging nature-inspired technique, named Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA), for equalizing digital multiuser channels. This equalization involves two different tasks: 1) estimation of the channel impulse response, and 2) estimation of the users' transmitted symbols. The new algorithm is developed and applied in a Direct-Sequence / Code-Division Multiple-Access (DS/CDMA) multiuser communications system. Important issues such as robustness, convergence speed and population diversity control have been in deep investigated. A method based on the entropy of the flowers' fitness is proposed for in-service monitoring and adjusting population diversity. Numerical simulations analyze the performance, showing comparisons with well-known conventional multiuser detectors such as Matched Filter (MF), Minimum Mean Square Error Estimator (MMSEE) or several Bayesian schemes, as well as with other nature-inspired strategies. Numerical analysis shows that the proposed algorithm enables transmission at higher symbol rates under stronger fading and interference conditions, constituting an attractive alternative to previous algorithms, both conventional and nature-inspired, whose performance is frequently sensible to near-far effects and multiple-access interference problems. These results have been validated by running hypothesis tests to confirm statistical significance.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Parasaccogaster
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jørgen G.
name: Schwarzhans, Werner
name: Cohen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Ophidiiformes
Bythitidae
Parasaccogaster

description: Key to species of Parasaccogaster
1 Nasal chamber black; vertebrae 45; anal fin rays 37; head width 12.0 % SL............................. melanomycter
- Nasal chamber not black; vertebrae 54–58; anal fin rays 49–54; head width 7.7–9.8 % SL............................ 2
2 Gill filaments on first gill arch short (1–2 times developed rakers); precaudal vertebrae 20; pectoral fin rays 12; strong ethmoi- dal spine................................................................................ rhamphidognatha
- Gill filaments on first gill arch long (4–5 times developed rakers); precaudal vertebrae 14–16; pectoral fin rays 17–19; no eth- moidal spine................................................................................... normae
description: Published as part of Nielsen, Jørgen G., Schwarzhans, Werner & Cohen, Daniel M., 2012, Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3579 on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208677
Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush 2017
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Clayton, Dale H.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Priceiella

description: Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Brueelia Kéler, 1936: 257 (in part).
Allobrueelia Eichler, 1951: 36 (in part).
Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 173.
Type species: Brueelia sternotypica Ansari, 1956: 148, by original designation.
Included subgenera
Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 173. Camurnirmus Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 179. Thescelovora Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 185. Torosinirmus Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 189.
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Clayton, Dale H. & Bush, Sarah E., 2018, Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4382 (3) on page 403, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1182994
Priceiella (Thescelovora) Gustafsson & Bush 2017
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Clayton, Dale H.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Priceiella

description: Priceiella (Thescelovora) Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Brueelia Kéler, 1936a: 257 (in part).
Thescelovora Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 185.
Type species: Priceiella (Thescelovora) alliocephala Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 186, by original designation.
Included species
Priceiella (Thescelovora) alliocephala Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 186. Priceiella (Thescelovora) austini new species
Priceiella (Thescelovora) calcicola new species
Priceiella (Thescelovora) chanthaburiana new species Priceiella (Thescelovora) coleyae new species
Priceiella (Thescelovora) fuscicaena new species
Priceiella (Thescelovora) macrocephala new species Priceiella (Thescelovora) malacocincla (Najer & Sychra [in Najer et al.], 2014) [in Brueelia]. Priceiella (Thescelovora) orichalca new species
Priceiella (Thescelovora) ornata new species
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Clayton, Dale H. & Bush, Sarah E., 2018, Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4382 (3) on page 403, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1182994
IFUM Integrated Field Spectroscopy of Ten M104 Satellite Galaxy Candidates
Creators: name: Crosby, Ethan
name: Mateo, Mario
name: Escala, Ivanna
name: Jerjen, Helmut
name: Müller, Oliver
name: Pawlowski, Marcel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the spectroscopic analysis of ten satellite galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Sombrero galaxy (M104, NGC4594), based on data obtained with IFUM (Integral Field Units for Magellan). Based on their newly-observed recessional velocities, we confirm that nine of these candidates are satellite galaxies of M104, with one being a background dwarf galaxy. All ten dwarfs have stellar masses $2\times10^{7}\,M_{\odot}$ to $1\times10^{9}\,M_{\odot}$ and mean weighted metallicities $-1.7<\langle{[\mathrm{M/H}]}\rangle<-0.3$. Although these dwarfs are predominantly old, with stellar populations $\sim5-11\,$Gyr. However, this sample contains a local example of a low-mass "Green Pea" candidate, it exhibits extreme optical emission features and broad emission line features ($σ\sim250\,\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$) reminiscent of high-redshift Ly$α$/LyC photon leaking galaxies. Using the newly-acquired recessional velocities of the nine satellites of M104, we find no evidence of coherent satellite motions unlike other nearby $L_*$ galaxy environments. Given the small sample, this results does not statistically rule out such coherent motions. There remain 60 satellite candidates of M104 for which future spectroscopy can more reliably test for such motion. Using the observed dwarf galaxies as tracers of the gravitational potential of M104, we estimate the dynamical mass of M104, $M_{dyn}=(12.4\pm6.5)\times10^{12}M_{\odot}$, and find that, making a reasonable estimate of M104's gas mass, $>90\%$ of its baryons are missing. These results agree with previous measurements of M104's dynamical mass.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted to the MNRAS
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) Gustafsson & Bush 2017
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Clayton, Dale H.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Priceiella

description: Priceiella (Camurnirmus) Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Brueelia Kéler, 1936a: 257 (in part).
Allobrueelia Eichler, 1951b: 36 (in part).
Camurnirmus Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 179.
Type species: Priceiella (Camurnirmus) hwameicola Gustafsson & Bush, 2017: 179, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Clayton, Dale H. & Bush, Sarah E., 2018, Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4382 (3) on page 428, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1182994
Performance Comparison of Deep Learning Techniques in Naira Classification
Creators: name: Tijjani, Ismail Ismail
name: Mustapha, Ahmad Abubakar
name: Idris, Isma'il Tijjani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Naira is Nigeria's official currency in daily transactions. This study presents the deployment and evaluation of Deep Learning (DL) models to classify Currency Notes (Naira) by denomination. Using a diverse dataset of 1,808 images of Naira notes captured under different conditions, trained the models employing different architectures and got the highest accuracy with MobileNetV2, the model achieved a high accuracy rate of in training of 90.75% and validation accuracy of 87.04% in classification tasks and demonstrated substantial performance across various scenarios. This model holds significant potential for practical applications, including automated cash handling systems, sorting systems, and assistive technology for the visually impaired. The results demonstrate how the model could boost the Nigerian economy's security and efficiency of financial transactions.
Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush 2017
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Clayton, Dale H.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Priceiella

description: Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Subgenus Camurnirmus Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) bohsae n. sp.
Garrulax strepitans Blyth, 1855 [Leiothrichidae]
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) hwameicola Gustafsson & Bush, 2017 Garrulax taewanus Swinhoe, 1859 [Leiothrichidae]
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) lindquistae n. sp.
Ianthocincla chinensis chinensis (Scopoli, 1786) [Leiothrichidae]
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) najeri n. sp.
Alcippe poioicephala haringtonae Hartert, 1909 [Leiothrichidae] Garrulax monileger fuscatus Baker, 1918 [Leiothrichidae] Garrulax monileger schauenseei Delacour and Greenway, 1939 [Leiothrichidae] Garrulax monileger stuarti Meyer de Schauensee, 1955 [Leiothrichidae] Ianthocincla chinensis lochmia Deignan, 1941 [Leiothrichidae]
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) nipalensis (Ansari, 1956b)
Grammatoptila striata sikkimensis (Ticehurst, 1924) [Leiothrichidae]
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) rhinocichlae (Eichler, 1957)
Ianthocincla mitrata major (Robinson and Kloss, 1919) [Leiothrichidae] Ianthocincla mitrata mitrata (Muller, 1836) [Leiothrichidae]
Priceiella (Camurnirmus) sonorae n. sp.
Garrulax maesi maesi (Oustalet, 1890) [Leiothrichidae]
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Clayton, Dale H. & Bush, Sarah E., 2018, Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4382 (3) on page 444, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1182994
Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush 2017
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Clayton, Dale H.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Priceiella

description: Subgenus Priceiella Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Priceiella (Priceiella) longisterna (Ansari, 1956b)
Cutia nipalensis nipalensis Hodgson, 1837 [Leiothrichidae] Priceiella (Camurnirmus) paulbrowni Gustafsson & Bush, 2017
Garrulax leucolophus belangeri Lesson, 1831 [Leiothrichidae]
Garrulax leucolophus diardi (Lesson, 1831) [Leiothrichidae] Priceiella (Priceiella) sternotransversa (Ansari, 1956b)
Ianthocincla albogularis albogularis (Gould, 1836) [Leiothrichidae] Priceiella (Priceiella) sternotypica (Ansari, 1956b)
Ianthocincla pectoralis pectoralis (Gould, 1836) [Leiothrichidae]
Ianthocincla pectoralis subfusa Kinnear, 1924 [Leiothrichidae]
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Clayton, Dale H. & Bush, Sarah E., 2018, Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4382 (3) on page 445, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1182994
Evaluating the Impact of Data Augmentation on Predictive Model Performance
Creators: name: Švábenský, Valdemar
name: Borchers, Conrad
name: Cloude, Elizabeth B.
name: Shimada, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2; I.6; K.3

description: In supervised machine learning (SML) research, large training datasets are essential for valid results. However, obtaining primary data in learning analytics (LA) is challenging. Data augmentation can address this by expanding and diversifying data, though its use in LA remains underexplored. This paper systematically compares data augmentation techniques and their impact on prediction performance in a typical LA task: prediction of academic outcomes. Augmentation is demonstrated on four SML models, which we successfully replicated from a previous LAK study based on AUC values. Among 21 augmentation techniques, SMOTE-ENN sampling performed the best, improving the average AUC by 0.01 and approximately halving the training time compared to the baseline models. In addition, we compared 99 combinations of chaining 21 techniques, and found minor, although statistically significant, improvements across models when adding noise to SMOTE-ENN (+0.014). Notably, some augmentation techniques significantly lowered predictive performance or increased performance fluctuation related to random chance. This paper's contribution is twofold. Primarily, our empirical findings show that sampling techniques provide the most statistically reliable performance improvements for LA applications of SML, and are computationally more efficient than deep generation methods with complex hyperparameter settings. Second, the LA community may benefit from validating a recent study through independent replication.
description: Published in LAK 2025 conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, see https://doi.org/10.1145/3706468.3706485
Machine Learning Methods for Automated Interstellar Object Classification with LSST
Creators: name: Cloete, Richard
name: Vereš, Peter
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, to be conducted with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Solar System by providing an unprecedented wealth of data on various objects, including the elusive interstellar objects (ISOs). Detecting and classifying ISOs is crucial for studying the composition and diversity of materials from other planetary systems. However, the rarity and brief observation windows of ISOs, coupled with the vast quantities of data to be generated by LSST, create significant challenges for their identification and classification. This study aims to address these challenges by exploring the application of machine learning algorithms to the automated classification of ISO tracklets in simulated LSST data. We employed various machine learning algorithms, including random forests (RFs), stochastic gradient descent (SGD), gradient boosting machines (GBMs), and neural networks (NNs), to classify ISO tracklets in simulated LSST data. We demonstrate that GBM and RF algorithms outperform SGD and NN algorithms in accurately distinguishing ISOs from other Solar System objects. RF analysis shows that many derived Digest2 values are more important than direct observables in classifying ISOs from the LSST tracklets. The GBM model achieves the highest precision, recall, and F1 score, with values of 0.9987, 0.9986, and 0.9987, respectively. These findings lay the foundation for the development of an efficient and robust automated system for ISO discovery using LSST data, paving the way for a deeper understanding of the materials and processes that shape planetary systems beyond our own. The integration of our proposed machine learning approach into the LSST data processing pipeline will optimize the survey's potential for identifying these rare and valuable objects, enabling timely follow-up observations and further characterization.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables
Understanding Particles From Video: Property Estimation of Granular Materials via Visuo-Haptic Learning
Creators: name: Zhang, Zeqing
name: Zheng, Guangze
name: Ji, Xuebo
name: Chen, Guanqi
name: Jia, Ruixing
name: Chen, Wentao
name: Chen, Guanhua
name: Zhang, Liangjun
name: Pan, Jia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Granular materials (GMs) are ubiquitous in daily life. Understanding their properties is also important, especially in agriculture and industry. However, existing works require dedicated measurement equipment and also need large human efforts to handle a large number of particles. In this paper, we introduce a method for estimating the relative values of particle size and density from the video of the interaction with GMs. It is trained on a visuo-haptic learning framework inspired by a contact model, which reveals the strong correlation between GM properties and the visual-haptic data during the probe-dragging in the GMs. After training, the network can map the visual modality well to the haptic signal and implicitly characterize the relative distribution of particle properties in its latent embeddings, as interpreted in that contact model. Therefore, we can analyze GM properties using the trained encoder, and only visual information is needed without extra sensory modalities and human efforts for labeling. The presented GM property estimator has been extensively validated via comparison and ablation experiments. The generalization capability has also been evaluated and a real-world application on the beach is also demonstrated. Experiment videos are available at \url{https://sites.google.com/view/gmwork/vhlearning} .
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, with ICRA 2025
Ptychographic estimation of pure multiqubit states in a quantum device
Creators: name: Alves, Warley M. S.
name: Neves, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum ptychography is a method for estimating an unknown pure quantum state by subjecting it to overlapping projections, each one followed by a projective measurement on a single prescribed basis. Here, we present a comprehensive study of this method applied for estimating $n$-qubit states in a circuit-based quantum computer, including numerical simulations and experiments carried out on an IBM superconducting quantum processor. The intermediate projections are implemented through Pauli measurements on one qubit at a time, which sets the number of ptychographic circuits to $3n$ (in contrast to the $3^n$ circuits for standard Pauli tomography); the final projective measurement in the computational basis is preceded by the quantum Fourier transform (QFT). Due to the large depth and number of two-qubit gates of the QFT circuit, which is unsuitable for noisy devices, we also test the approximate QFT (AQFT) and separable unitary operations. Using the QFT and AQFT of degree $2$, we obtained high estimation fidelities in all tests with separable and entangled states for up to three and four qubits, respectively; on the other hand, the separable unitaries in this scenario provided good estimations only for separable states, in general. Our results compare favorably with recent results in the literature and we discuss further alternatives to make the ptychographic method scalable for the current noisy devices.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables