The chest radiographs of 60 adult patients with serologically proven mycoplasma pneumonia were reviewed. Confluent or patchy consolidation was most commonly seen, and involved one lobe only in 40% of patients. Widespread nodular opacities were seen much less frequently (7%). Pleural fluid was rare. Complete resolution was almost invariable, 40% of radiographs having cleared by four weeks and 96...

An experimental investigation of how the appearance of robotic agents affects interpretations people make of the agents’ attitudes is described. We conducted a psychological experiment where participants were presented artificial sounds that can make people estimate specific agents’ primitive attitudes from three kinds of agents, e.g., a Mindstorms robot, AIBO robot, and normal laptop PC. They ...

BACKGROUND Exposure to alcohol products in feature films is a risk factor for use of alcohol by young people. This study was designed to document the extent to which alcohol imagery and brand appearances occur in popular UK films, and in relation to British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) age ratings intended to protect children and young people from harmful imagery. METHODS Alcohol appea...

We introduce a method for unsupervised clustering of images of 3D objects. Our method examines the space of all images and partitions the images into sets that form smooth and parallel surfaces in this space. It further uses sequences of images to obtain more reliable clustering. Finally, since our method relies on a non-Euclidean similarity measure we introduce algebraic techniques for estimat...

BACKGROUND The role of various gynaecological imaging modalities is vital in aiding clinicians to diagnose acute gynaecological disease, and can help to direct medical and surgical treatment where appropriate. It is important to interpret the imaging findings in the context of the clinical signs and patient's pregnancy status. METHODS Ultrasound and Doppler are readily available in the emerge...

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare disorder of presumed autoimmune etiology with specific pathologic features, and is an increasingly recognized clinical condition. AIP is characterized histologically by fibrosis with dense infiltration of T lymphocytes and IgG4positive plasma cells in the peripancreatic and interlobular area of the pancreas (1-4). Patients with AIP usually have serum mark...

Many diseases such as Cancer, Huntington’s disease, Malaria, Multiple Sclerosis, and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis are mainly diagnosed by the appearances include size, shape, color and the double-concave dish size of red blood cells in the blood smear. The automatically evaluating process in the appearances from the blood smear images is high importance for rapid and accurate diseases diagnosis. T...

many different radiologic appearances. The common radiologic appearances are those of a solitary peripheral pulmonary nodule, multiple nodules and lobar or diffuse consolidation (1). The unusual radiologic appearances include diffuse disease with minimal or no radiologic signs, expansive pulmonary consolidation without air bronchograms, lobar atelectasis and cavitation (1). To the best of our k...

Because US plays a key role in the initial evaluation of hepatic hemangiomas, knowledge of the entire spectrum of US appearances of these tumors is important. Most hemangiomas have a distinctive US appearance, and even with those with atypical appearances on conventional gray-scale US, specific diagnoses can be made using pulse-inversion harmonic US with contrast agents. In this essay, we revie...

INTRODUCTION Esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis is a rare condition characterized by the dilatation of the submucosal glands. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis in a 72-year-old Caucasian man who presented with dysphagia and with a background history of alcohol abuse. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy of our patient showed an esophageal...