In recent years, the classification task of building facade images receives a great deal of attention in the photogrammetry community. In this paper, we present an approach for regionwise classification using an efficient randomized decision forest classifier and local features. A conditional random field is then introduced to enforce spatial consistency between neighboring regions. Experimenta...

The aim of the study was to assess chosen factors of genetic susceptibility to DMT1: DRB1, DQB1, and TNF-alpha polymorphisms-308 (G/A) in children with DMT1 and their up-to-now healthy siblings. Then we tested whether the association between TNF-alpha genes and DMT1 is independent of HLA. 87 diabetic children, their 78 siblings, and 85 persons from healthy control group were followed up. The hi...

Studies in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients demonstrate that polymorphism at the HLA-DQ locus influences the development of MG. Several studies using the mouse models also demonstrate the influence of class II molecules, especially the H2-A, which is the mouse homologue of HLA-DQ, in experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG). We used transgenic mice expressing two different DQ molecules, ...

In the last decades, lymph node fine-needle cytology (FNC), coupled with flow cytometry (FC), has gained a role in the diagnosis and classification of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The combination of FNC/FC allows the diagnosis and classification of NHL in lymph node samples with a high sensitivity and specificity by combining cytological features and specific phenotypic profiles. The present rev...

A simple discrete flow system for the photometric determination of iron using a glass syringe as a mixer of a solution and as a sample cell has been developed. The system was assembled from a coupler combining a light source (a light-emitting diode, LED), a glass syringe, a photodiode detector (PD) and two plastic core fiber optics. The reagent and sample solutions were sucked into a syringe, a...

The goal was to identify HLA-DQ8-bound beta cell epitopes important in the T cell response in autoimmune diabetes. We first identified HLA-DQ8 (DQA1*0301/DQB1*0302) beta cell epitopes using a computational approach and then related their identification to CD4 T cell responses. The computational program (TEA-DQ8) was adapted from one previously developed for identifying peptides bound to the I-A...

In this paper, we present a new approach for event detection of pedestrian interaction in crowded and cluttered scenes. Existing work is focused on the detection of an abnormal event in general or on the detection of specific simple events incorporating only up to two trajectories. In our approach, event detection in large groups of pedestrians is performed by exploiting motion interaction betw...

Cerebral infarction occurs in one quarter of all children with sickle cell anemia (SCA). There is an increased risk of stroke in siblings with SCA, suggesting genetic factors may influence risk of stroke. The authors investigated whether HLA type was associated with risk of stroke in children with SCA. Fifty-three patients with SCA underwent complete HLA typing at both HLA class I (HLA-A, B) an...

BACKGROUND The onset of coeliac disease (CD) in the first year of life is uncommon and the diagnosis can be challenging due to the suboptimal sensitivity of tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTG) at this age and the many other possible causes of malabsorption in infants. Antibodies to deamidated gliadin peptides (anti-DGPs), especially IgG, may appear earlier than IgA anti-tTG in very young c...