High intensity canopy height LIDAR data affords model-based estimation of tree locations. The analysis of spatial point patterns is a natural extension of this modeling capability. Identification of within-stand clusters (features) of trees deviating significantly in height from those of surrounding trees (clutter) is important for inventory and forest management purposes. We demonstrate a nonp...

The spread of mammographic screening programmes around the world, including in developing countries, has substantially contributed to the diagnosis of small non-palpable lesions, which has increased the detection rate of DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). DCIS is heterogeneous in several ways, such as its clinical presentation, morphology and genomic profile. Excellent outcomes have been reported...

The aim of the study is to determine whether low doses of "endocrine disrupting chemicals" (EDCs) affect the development and proliferative activity of the mammary glands (MGs). Adult parous/nulliparous female Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were treated from post-natal day (PND) 1 until PND 180 with diethylphthalate (DEP), methylparaben (MPB), triclosan (TCS) and a mixture at doses comparable to human...

The morphological, biological, biochemical, and karyotypic characteristics of four human bladder transitional cell carcinoma lines, SW-780, SW-800, SW-1738, and SW-1710, were investigated. In tissue culture, each cell line presented a distinct phenotypic expression. All but line SW-1710 grew when transplanted in the nude mouse. Light and electron microscopic studies showed morphological charact...

This paper describes the application of morphological filtering to speech spectrograms for noise robust automatic speech recognition. Speech regions of the spectrogram are identified based on the proximity of high energy regions to neighbouring high energy regions in the three-dimensional space. The process of erosion can remove noise while dilation can then restore any erroneously removed spee...

Benign plexiform lesion may describe a rare tumor based on morphological features. Plexiform arrangement may suggest lesions which are spindled and focally show some whorling and fascicular pattern [1]. Literature has provided a vast differential diagnosis of plexiform lesion some of which include schwannoma, fibrohistiocytic tumors, angiomyxoid tumors, fibromyxoma [25]. Plexiform neurofibroma ...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for the extraction of coronary artery skeletons (centerlines) by analyzing the topographic features of coronary angiogram images. Initially, the angiogram is pre-processed for noise reduction and artery enhancement through directional morphological filtering. The topographic features of the resulting image are detected based on first and second-order ima...

CONTEXT The occipital condyles of the skull articulate with the superior articular facets of the atlas vertebra and form an important junction between the cranium and the vertebral column. The morphological features of occipital condyles are relevant in biomechanical, anatomical and clinical studies. OBJECTIVE To describe the anatomical profile of unusual occipital condyles detected in a bone...

Genetic diversity of an endemic medicinal orchid, Coelogyne nervosa A. Rich. was investigated by using SDS-PAGE, RAPD markers and morphological characters. C. nervosa is growing as epiphyte as well as lithophytes in Eastern and Western Ghats of India. It is an important medicinal orchid showing antioxidant and anticancer properties. Leaf samples collected from these two reference sites were tak...

We examined the activation of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38-MAPK) pathway by the G protein-coupled receptor agonists, endothelin-1 and phenylephrine in primary cultures of cardiac myocytes from neonatal rat hearts. Both agonists increased the phosphorylation (activation) of p38-MAPK by approximately 12-fold. A p38-MAPK substrate, MAPK-activated protein kinase 2 (MAPKAPK2), was a...