warfarin induced skin necrosis is a rare complication associated with the use of oral ‎anticoagulants. most patients develop this complication at the initiation of therapy. the complication is ‎usually associated with an underlying thrombophilia. here we describe a case of a 75 year old ‎patient who developed skin necrosis in her both breasts during warfarin treatment for a ‎deep vein thrombosi...

Face detection is no more unbreakably correlated with face recognition. Instead it has been established as an important tool in the framework of many multimedia applications like indexing, scene classification and news summarization. Inspired of the work presented in [l], many face detection algorithms based on skin color characteristics have appeared in the literature. Most of them face genera...

This chapter proposes a novel hierarchical classification system based on the K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) model and its application to nonmelanoma skin lesion classification. Color and texture features are extracted from skin lesion images. The hierarchical structure decomposes the classification task into a set of simpler problems, one at each node of the classification. Feature selection is em...

Industrialization and increasing demand for the consumption of fossil fuels cause that energy becomes a strategic factor. Energy crisis and the emergence of modern architecture led designers to pay more attention to the important task of building's envelope. Building skins play an important role in building thermal behavior and reduce energy consumption. If Double Skin Facades properly designed...

Information about the spatial structure of tactile stimuli is conveyed by slowly adapting type 1 (SA1) and rapidly adapting (RA) afferents innervating the skin. Here, we investigate how the spatial properties of the stimulus shape the afferent response. To that end, we present an analytical framework to characterize SA1 and RA responses to a wide variety of spatial patterns indented into the sk...

A methodology for motion analysis and hand tracking based on adaptive probabilistic models is presented. This is done by integrating a deterministic clustering framework and a particle filter together in real time. The skin color of a human hand is firstly segmented. A Bayesian classifier and an adaptive process are utilized for determining skin color probabilities. The methodology enables us t...

A 66-year-old man presented with a large squamous cell carcinoma of the right nasal vestibule. He underwent partial rhinectomy and medial maxillectomy followed by staged reconstruction. Reconstruction of a full-thickness nasal defect requires repair of three distinct layers: the skin-soft tissue envelope, subsurface framework and intranasal lining. We report the first use in the UK of an osteoc...

background: nasal continuous positive airway pressure (ncpap) is an effective method of ventilation in newborns with respiratory distress syndrome (rds). using an appropriate nasal skin care protocol is identical to prevention or reduction of nasal skin breakdown in those who receive ncpap. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an evidence-based clinical care protocol on nasal sk...

A methodology for motion analysis and hand tracking based on adaptive probabilistic models is presented. This is done by integrating a deterministic clustering framework and a particle filter together in real time. The skin color of a human hand is firstly segmented. A Bayesian classifier and an adaptive process are utilized for determining skin color probabilities. The methodology enables us t...

  Background: Skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. Its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. This study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (SCPBs) among rural farmers in Chalderan County, Iran.   Methods: This was a quasi-randomized controlled fiel...