A growing body of experimental evidence suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs) are closely associated with specific human diseases and play critical roles in their development and progression. Therefore, identifying miRNA related to specific diseases is of great significance for disease screening and treatment. In the early stages, the identification of associations between miRNAs and diseases demanded laborious and time-consuming biological experiments that often carried a substantial risk of failure. With the exponential growth in the number of potential miRNA-disease association combinations, traditional biological experimental methods face difficulties in processing massive amounts of data. Hence, developing more efficient computational methods to predict possible miRNA-disease associations and prioritize them is particularly necessary. In recent years, numerous deep learning-based computational methods have been developed and have demonstrated excellent performance. However, most of these methods rely on external databases or tools to compute various auxiliary information. Unfortunately, these external databases or tools often cover only a limited portion of miRNAs and diseases, resulting in many miRNAs and diseases being unable to match with these computational methods. Therefore, there are certain limitations associated with the practical application of these methods. To overcome the above limitations, this study proposes a multi-view computational model called MVNMDA, which predicts potential miRNA-disease associations by integrating features of miRNA and diseases from local views, global views, and semantic views. Specifically, MVNMDA utilizes known association information to construct node initial features. Then, multiple networks are constructed based on known association to extract low-dimensional feature embedding of all nodes. Finally, a cascaded attention classifier is proposed to fuse features from coarse to fine, suppressing noise within the features and making precise predictions. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, extensive experiments were conducted on the HMDD v2.0 and HMDD v3.2 datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that MVNMDA achieves better performance compared to other computational methods. Additionally, the case study results further demonstrate the reliable predictive performance of MVNMDA.
Small non-coding molecules known as microRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis evaluation. Traditional wet-lab methods for validating miRNA–disease associations are often time-consuming and inefficient. With the advancement of high-throughput sequencing technologies, deep learning methods have become effective tools for uncovering potential patterns in miRNA–disease associations and revealing novel biological insights. Most of the existing approaches focus primarily on individual molecular behavior, overlooking interactions at the multi-molecular level. Conventional graph neural network (GNN) models struggle to generalize to heterogeneous graphs, and as network depth increases, node representations become indistinguishable due to over-smoothing, resulting in reduced predictive performance. GONNMDA first integrates similarity features from multiple data sources and applies noise reduction to obtain a reconstructed, comprehensive similarity representation. It then constructs heterogeneous graphs and applies a root–tree hierarchical alignment, along with an ordered gating message-passing mechanism, effectively addressing the challenges of heterogeneity and over-smoothing. Finally, a multilayer perceptron is employed to produce the final association predictions. To evaluate the effectiveness of GONNMDA, we conducted extensive experiments where the model achieved an AUC of 95.49% and an AUPR of 95.32%. The results demonstrate that GONNMDA outperforms several recent state-of-the-art methods. In addition, case studies and survival analyses on three common human cancers—breast cancer, rectal cancer, and lung cancer—further validate the effectiveness and reliability of GONNMDA in predicting miRNA–disease associations.
UAV object detection remains challenging due to large scale variation, dense small objects, frequent occlusion, and complex background interference. Existing CNN-based detectors are often limited by weak small-object representation, while Transformer-based detectors may not adequately preserve local details in dense aerial scenes. This paper proposes a dual-path detection framework that integrates frequency-domain enhancement with large-kernel convolution and Transformer-based global modeling. An FFT Large-Kernel Convolution (FFLKC) module is introduced to enhance high-frequency details and enlarge the effective receptive field. A Transformer pathway with Full-Process Feature Attention (FPFA) is designed to strengthen long-range dependency modeling and semantic representation. A Frequency-Semantic Memory-guided Adaptive Fusion (FMSAF) module is further employed to integrate local detail features and global contextual information. Experiments on UAVDT and VisDrone demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior overall detection performance and stronger small-object perception than mainstream detectors. The method reaches 58.7 and 51.8 on UAVDT, and 39.4 and 30.5 on VisDrone. Qualitative and quantitative results verify the effectiveness of the proposed design in improving detection quality under complex UAV backgrounds.
1 January 2026 in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing