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Predicting Case Processing Duration in Kenyan Magistrate Courts: A Three-Stage Machine Learning Pipeline for Proactive Backlog Management

This study introduces a three-stage machine learning pipeline, validated on over 670,000 Kenyan magistrate court cases, which utilizes LightGBM and CatBoost models to predict case processing durations and classify same-day disposals, thereby enabling proactive backlog management through an empirically derived risk scheme and a deployed web application.

Anuary Mulombi, Fidelis Mukudi, Anthony Mile2026-08-10
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Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification Under Limited MRI Data Regimes: A Fraction-Resolved Benchmark with Explicit Statistical and Methodological Caveats

This study demonstrates that ImageNet-pretrained EfficientNet-B0 significantly outperforms random initialization for four-class brain tumor MRI classification only under extreme data scarcity (5% of 5,600 images), while highlighting critical limitations such as potential patient-level data leakage and the lack of statistical significance for transfer learning benefits at larger data fractions, ultimately arguing against autonomous deployment without further rigorous validation.

Nakib Uddin Ahmed, Azizur Rahman, Mehjabin Ferdous, Md. Shahadat Hossain, Kadirur Rahman Chowdhury, Akhlak Uz Zaman Ashi (…)2026-08-10
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Comprehensive Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Five-Class Sleep Stage Classification Using PPG Signals

This study demonstrates that a Random Forest model utilizing combined PPG and inter-beat interval features can achieve accurate, interpretable, and computationally efficient five-class sleep stage classification from wearable PPG signals, offering a viable alternative to resource-intensive deep learning approaches.

Rafael Martins, Rita Ribeiro, Hugo Pereira, Vasco Silva, Alberto Freitas, Rute Almeida, Goreti Marreiros, Luís Conceição2026-08-10
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BMTransUNet: Boundary-Aware Gated Multimodal Transformer for Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

The paper proposes BMTransUNet, a boundary-aware gated multimodal Transformer U-Net that integrates RGB and DSM data through adaptive fusion, Vision Transformer-based context modeling, and edge-enhanced skip connections to achieve superior semantic segmentation accuracy in remote sensing images.

Xiaona Peng, Chengyun Liu, Yaping Zhao, Zhenyan Wang, Zhong Chen, Zhenxue Chen2026-08-10
💻 computer science

Scene-aware Transformer encoder with Multi Instance Learning-guided Attention Mechanism for Anomaly Detection in Video Surveillance

This paper proposes the STAM framework, which integrates contrastive learning for scene-aware embeddings with a transformer encoder guided by Multi-Instance Learning attention, to effectively address contextual and temporal limitations in video anomaly detection and achieve superior accuracy on benchmark datasets.

Rifa Nizam Khan, Mohd. Amjad2026-08-10