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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Machine Learning for Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures: A Review.

Gennaro Scarselli, Francesco Nicassio

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gennaro ScarselliDepartment of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton, Building 176, Boldrewood Innovation Campus, Burgess Road, Southampton SO16 7QF, UK.
Francesco NicassioDepartment of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4541-5077

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural health monitoring (SHM) plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and performance of aerospace structures throughout their lifecycle. As aircraft and spacecraft systems grow in complexity, the integration of machine learning (ML) into SHM frameworks is revolutionizing how damage is detected, localized, and predicted. This review presents a comprehensive examination of recent advances in ML-based SHM methods tailored to aerospace applications. It covers supervised, unsupervised, deep, and hybrid learning techniques, highlighting their capabilities in processing high-dimensional sensor data, managing uncertainty, and enabling real-time diagnostics. Particular focus is given to the challenges of data scarcity, operational variability, and interpretability in safety-critical environments. The review also explores emerging directions such as digital twins, transfer learning, and federated learning. By mapping current strengths and limitations, this paper provides a roadmap for future research and outlines the key enablers needed to bring ML-based SHM from laboratory development to widespread aerospace deployment.

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aerospace structuresdamage detectionmachine learningSHM

Identifiers

PMID41094958
PMCPMC12526691

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