New species of ladybird beetle discovered on university campus in Japan

University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on ...
IEEE

ResTreeNet: A Height-Aware LiDAR Tree Classification Model With Explainable AI for Forestry Applications

Abstract: Tree species classification plays a crucial role in forest management, biodiversity conservation, and ecological monitoring. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, capturing highly ...
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What is taxonomy and why is it so complicated?

The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is ...
IEEE

Classification of Dominant Tree Species and Vegetation Types Based on Sentinel-2 Time Series Multispectral Data in the Eastern Qilian Mountains

Abstract: Precise mapping of forest vegetation, including both dominant tree species and other vegetation types, is essential for forest management and biodiversity conservation, yet traditional ...
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Tree species classification from from airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data using 3D convolutional neural networks

This is a code repository for our paper Tree species classification from airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data using 3D convolutional neural networks During the last two decades, forest monitoring and ...
Live Science

Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning

Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
Frontiers

Explainable AI-based feature importance analysis for ovarian cancer classification with ensemble methods

Introduction: Ovarian Cancer (OC) is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women. Despite recent advances in the medical field, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy interventions ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Breiman, L., Friedman, J., Olshen, R.A. and Stone, C.J. (1984) Classification and Regression Trees. Chapman and Hall/CRC.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the use of a decision tree classification model, combined with Principal Component Analysis (PCA), to distinguish between Assam and Bhutan ethnic groups based on ...
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Using Decision Tree Classification and Principal Component Analysis to Predict Ethnicity Based on Individual Characteristics: A Case Study of Assam and Bhutan Ethnicities ()

1 Department of Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA. 2 Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA. 3 Department of Computer Engineering, ...