This paper deals with the problem of detection of foreign bodies in food. A new method for inspecting food samples is presented, using thermographic images to detect foreign bodies that are not detectable using conventional methods. The main part of the present paper introduces specific image processing methods that show a good recognition power of foreign bodies within food. Results are promis...

' By KENNEDY HUNTER, M.B., F.R.C.S., D.L.O. Hon. Assistant Surgeon, E.N.T. Dept., Royal Victoria Hospital, Hon. Surgeon, E.N.T. Dept., Belfast Ophthalmic Hospital IN reviewing the early medical literature, one is impressed with the relative scarcity of references to foreign bodies in the air passages; practically all the earlier cases were cesophageal. This must be due to failure of recognition...

BACKGROUND Entrapped anorectal foreign bodies are being encountered more frequently in clinical practice. Although entrapped foreign bodies are most often related to sexual behavior, they can also result from ingestion or sexual assault. METHODS Between 1999 and 2009, 15 patients with foreign bodies in the rectum were diagnosed and treated, at Izmir Training and Research Hospital, in Izmir. I...