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The Exner equation in conjunction phenomenological sediment transport models is widely used for mathematical modeling non-cohesive river bed. This approach allows to obtain an accurate solution without any difficulty if one models evolution of simple shape bed. However if one models evolution of complex shape bed with unstable soil the numerical instability occurs in some cases. It is difficult to detach this numerical instability from the natural physical instability of bed.

This paper analyses the causes of numerical instability occurring while modeling evolution of complex shape bed by using the Exner equation and phenomenological sediment rate models. The paper shows that two kinds of indeterminateness may occur while solving numerically the Exner equation closed by phenomenological model of sediment transport. The first indeterminateness occurs in the bed area where sediment transport is transit and bed is not changed. The second indeterminateness occurs at the extreme point of bed profile when the sediment rate varies and the bed remains the same. Authors performed the closure of the Exner equation by the analytical sediment transport model, which allowed to transform the Exner equation to parabolic type equation. Analysis of the obtained equation showed that it’s numerical solving does not lead to occurring of the indeterminateness mentioned above. Parabolic form of the transformed Exner equation allows to apply the effective and stable implicit central difference scheme for this equation solving.

The model problem of bed evolution in presence of periodic distribution of the bed shear stress is carried out. The authors used the explicit central difference scheme with and without filtration method application and implicit central difference scheme for numerical solution of the problem. It is shown that the explicit central difference scheme is unstable in the area of the bed profile extremum. Using the filtration method resulted to increased dissipation of the solution. The solution obtained by using the implicit central difference scheme corresponds to the distribution law of bed shear stress and is stable throughout the calculation area.

We examine a phenomenological algorithm for generating morphology of astrocytes, a major class of glial brain cells, based on morphometric data of rat brain protoplasmic astrocytes and observations of general cell development trends in vivo, based on current literature. We adapted the Space Colonization Algorithm (SCA) for procedural generation of astrocytic morphology from scratch. Attractor points used in generation were spatially distributed in the model volume according to the synapse distribution density in the rat hippocampus tissue during the first week of postnatal brain development. We analyzed and compared astrocytic morphology reconstructions at different brain development stages using morphometry estimation techniques such as Sholl analysis, number of bifurcations, number of terminals, total tree length, and maximum branching order. Using morphometric data from protoplasmic astrocytes of rats at different ages, we selected the necessary generation parameters to obtain the most realistic three-dimensional cell morphology models. We demonstrate that our proposed algorithm allows not only to obtain individual cell geometry but also recreate the phenomenon of tiling domain organization in the cell populations. In our algorithm tiling emerges due to the cell competition for territory and the assignment of unique attractor points to their processes, which then become unavailable to other cells and their processes. We further extend the original algorithm by splitting morphology generation in two phases, thereby simulating astrocyte tree structure development during the first and third-fourth weeks of rat postnatal brain development: rapid space exploration at the first stage and extensive branching at the second stage. To this end, we introduce two attractor types to separate two different growth strategies in time. We hypothesize that the extended algorithm with dynamic attractor generation can explain the formation process of fine astrocyte cell structures and maturation of astrocytic arborizations.

The accurate characterization of particle size and morphology is crucial across numerous scientific and industrial fields. While microscopy is a powerful tool for visualizing particle geometry, traditional image analysis often relies on basic parameters like area and equivalent circular diameter, which are insufficient for describing non-spherical or complex particles. This paper presents a novel methodology for the analysis of particles from micrographs, combining deep learningbased segmentation with parametric polygon approximation. Optical microscopy images were obtained for model systems of increasing complexity: monodisperse polystyrene spheres, SAPO-34 cubes, ZSM-5 hexagonal prisms, and a multi-component mixture of all three. Neural network segmentation was performed using the DLgram01 cloud service, trained on manually annotated images. A custom Python program was developed to process the resulting segmentation polygons. The core of the method involves fitting a parameterized polygon to each segmented particle’s contour. The optimal value of geometric parameters for each particle is determined by minimizing a “dissimilarity” function that measures the discrepancy between the segmentation and the parametric shape. This approach was validated on the simple spherical system, yielding a size distribution consistent with conventional projected diameter methods. For more complex cubic SAPO-34 particles, the rectangle fit revealed deviations from the ideal shape, providing a more complete morphological description than using a single size parameter. In the mixture of particles, the method successfully classified and extracted distinct parameter distributions for each particle type. The results for each class in the mixture were statistically consistent with those obtained from the single-component systems, demonstrating the method’s robustness and accuracy. The proposed methodology provides a powerful and universal tool for automated, high-throughput particle analysis, enabling the extraction of detailed shape parameters and the construction of comprehensive size and morphology distributions for complex particulate systems.

Laser interference microscopy was used to study morphology and intracellular dynamics of erythrocytes, neurons and mast cells. We have found that changes of the local refractive index (RI) of cells have regular components that relate to the cooperative processes in the cellular submembrane and centre regions. We have shown that characteristic frequencies of RI dynamics differ for various cell types and can be used as markers of specific cellular processes.

We propose an approach for the reconstruction and quantitative phenotyping of plant morphological traits at early ontogenetic stages based on digital image analysis. The proposed algorithm combines deep learning and graph-based representations while incorporating biological principles of morphogenesis. This integration enables the transition from binary segmentation to the reconstruction of a topologically consistent plant structure with accurate separation of intersecting root systems in images containing multiple plants. At the first stage, binary masks of seeds, shoots, and root systems are generated using a U-Net convolutional neural network architecture. The resulting image is transformed into a graph model in which edges correspond to root and shoot segments, while vertices represent key morphological points, including branching and intersection nodes. A directed traversal algorithm initialized from the seed point, combined with watershed-based graph partitioning and a composite scoring function for primary axis selection, identifies individual plants as isolated subgraphs and accurately distinguishes the primary root, lateral roots, and shoot. The validity of the algorithm was confirmed through a multi-level validation procedure, including comparison of graph reconstruction results on segmented images and end-to-end evaluation of the complete computational pipeline on original images against existing software solutions and expert manual annotations. The proposed approach is robust to variability in root system morphology and image noise and provides high accuracy in morphological trait extraction. The results of this study can be applied in plant breeding programs.

In general, solving the information explosion problem can be delegated to systems for automatic processing of digital data. These systems are intended for recognizing, sorting, meaningfully processing and presenting data in formats readable and interpretable by humans. The creation of intelligent knowledge extraction systems that handle unstructured data would be a natural solution in this area. At the same time, the evident progress in these tasks for structured data contrasts with the limited success of unstructured data processing, and, in particular, document processing. Currently, this research area is undergoing active development and investigation. The present paper is a systematic survey on both Russian and international publications that are dedicated to the leading trend in automatic text data processing: Text Mining (TM). We cover the main tasks and notions of TM, as well as its place in the current AI landscape. Furthermore, we analyze the complications that arise during the processing of texts written in natural language (NLP) which are weakly structured and often provide ambiguous linguistic information. We describe the stages of text data preparation, cleaning, and selecting features which, alongside the data obtained via morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis, constitute the input for the TM process. This process can be represented as mapping a set of text documents to «knowledge». Using the case of stock trading, we demonstrate the formalization of the problem of making a trade decision based on a set of analytical recommendations. Examples of such mappings are methods of Information Retrieval (IR), text summarization, sentiment analysis, document classification and clustering, etc. The common point of all tasks and techniques of TM is the selection of word forms and their derivatives used to recognize content in NL symbol sequences. Considering IR as an example, we examine classic types of search, such as searching for word forms, phrases, patterns and concepts. Additionally, we consider the augmentation of patterns with syntactic and semantic information. Next, we provide a general description of all NLP instruments: morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis. Finally, we end the paper with a comparative analysis of modern TM tools which can be helpful for selecting a suitable TM platform based on the user’s needs and skills.