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To validate the versatility of such an approach, the produced PG emissions interact with a scintillating fiber-based Compton camera.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    A trained multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network shows that it was possible to achieve a notable three-fold increase in the signal-to-total ratio. Furthermore, after event selection by the trained MLP, the loss of full-energy PGs was compensated by means of fitting an MLP energy regression model to the available data from true Compton (signal) events, predicting more precisely the total deposited energy for Compton events with incomplete energy deposition.\n                    <jats:italic>Significance.<\/jats:italic>\n                    A considerable improvement in the Compton camera\u2019s performance was demonstrated in determining the distal falloff and identifying a few millimeters of target displacements. 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