Scientific genius: In different guises

Different guises of plasmacytoma--from skin to bone.

A case is reported of a patient with plasmacytoma which assumed different clinicopathological features over seven years. The tumour first presented as a subcutaneous mass which was misdiagnosed as anaplastic carcinoma. Complete response to radiotherapy ensued but recurrence took the form of an intracerebral tumour. Further complete response to "palliative" corticosteroids was followed by osseou...

Evaluation Comes in Many Guises

As the information visualisation (infovis) community matures, the evaluation of information visualisation techniques is becoming more of a requirement and less of an optional extra. Unfortunately, the term evaluation means different things to different people. Simply encouraging “evaluation” is too general and imprecise. There is a need for clarification as to what kind of evaluation is expecte...

Synaesthesia in its protean guises.

Synaesthesia is a condition characterized by unusual perceptual or cognitive pairings – for example, words might trigger tastes (Ward & Simner, 2003), letters may trigger the sensation of texture (Eagleman & Goodale, 2009), or music may induce the sensation of shapes and colour (Ward, Huckstep, & Tsakanikos, 2006). To date, there are estimated to be up to 150 reported forms of synaesthesia (Cyt...

Genius explained

The physician's art is the catalogue of an exhibition of over 100 images and other objects from the collections of four North Carolina medical schools. In a finely-judged Preface, structured around specific examples shown, Martin Kemp points out some of the historical issues involved in the study of medical imagery and artifacts, beginning with the problem of what "realism" means in the context...

Pattern Inference under many Guises