There is a current lack of consensus regarding methods of assessment of vitiligo. Recently, the Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (VASI) and the Vitiligo European Task Force (VETF) were proposed to offer more accurate measures of disease severity indexes and treatment evaluation criteria. It would make sense to combine the VASI with the VETF system. We proposed an original scale for treatment evaluat...

The paper presents a new fast computation scheme for linear separation in two-dimensional feature space. This scheme is based on a combination of several image processing techniques: fast Hough transform, cumulative sum computation and expression of optimized criterion as a function of additive statistics. It is shown that complexity of the scheme is O(n log n) for chosen set of criteria. Two a...

Case description: The patient of this case report presented 2 pairs of equivalent cervical abfraction lesions, under occlusion. Four restorations were placed in teeth 34, 35, 44 and 45. The restorations were divided into groups (Single Bond + Filtek-Flow + Filtek Z250 or Single Bond + Filtek Z250) and the materials were applied according to the manufactures instructions. Two previously calibrat...

Archival Spitzer IRAC and MIPS observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have been used to search for young stellar objects (YSOs). We have carried out independent aperture photometry of these data and merged the results from different passbands to produce a photometric catalog. To verify our methodology we have also analyzed the data from the SAGE and SWIRE Legacy programs; our photomet...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diagnosis and successful therapy before rupture of cerebral aneurysms would be most desirable in view of the high mortality and morbidity rates of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Using transcranial color-coded duplex sonography, we studied radiologically proven cerebral aneurysms to define ultrasonographic criteria and sensitivity for their diagnosis and detection. ...

in the present investigation attempts were made for the first time to use the fundamental color stimulus as the input for a fixed optimized neural network match prediction system. four sets of data having different origins (i.e. different substrate, different colorant sets and different dyeing procedures) were used to train and test the performance of the network. the results showed that the us...

In this study, we have compared foveal SF discriminations for luminance and color-defined stimuli using two different tasks (criteria): in criterion-A, the discrimination is based on spatial (size of the stimuli) and/or spatial frequency; in criterion-B, it is based on apparent motion (contraction/expansion). We used high contrast (75%) spatially localized D6 stimuli and cosine gratings (0.25-9...

We use a complete sample of RR Lyrae stars discovered by the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team survey using light curves to design selection criteria based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) colors. Thanks to the sensitivity of the u g color to surface gravity and of the g r color to effective temperature and to the small photometric errors ( 0.02 mag) delivered by SDSS, RR Lyrae stars can be effic...

A new method for color reduction in a digital image is proposed, which is based on the development of a new neural network classifier and on a new method for Estimation of the Most Important Classes (EMIC). The proposed neural network combines the features of the well-known Growing Neural Gas (GNG) and the Kohonen Self-Organized Feature Map (KSOFM) neural networks. We call the new neural networ...