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Banushri Annamalai, Kishore Kunal, Vairavel Madeshwaren, Kathiravan M, Goli Ramkrishna and Neha Sharma, “Machine Learning Powered Asbestos Exposure Modeling Using Feature Extraction from IoT Based Sensor Data”, Journal of Machine and Computing, vol.5, no.3, pp. 1673-1684, July 2025, doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202505132.
