Background: Malva sylvestris L. (M. sylvestris) has antioxidant property and is widely used in the traditional medicine to treat gastrointestinal, respiratory, skin and urological disorders. Objective: In this study, the protective effect of M. sylvestris against sodium fluoride-induced nephrotoxicity in the rat was evaluated. Methods: The M. sylvestris flower extract was prepared and in...

The fusion of medical images taken at the same slice/part of the body by differentmodalities is very useful technique in medical diagnosis. Medical image fusion tried withwavelet transform methods proved to be image dependent and preservation of highfrequency contents of the image by wavelets are also not satisfactory. In this work, curvelettransform is applied for fusion wi...

This paper contains an algorithm and a computer programm for a natural from the human point of view splitting into sections of a two-dimensional pic-ture* Contemplating a picture, a human being draws in his imagination borders, sorting out sections, which he supposes to be homogeneous for the time being, in spite of their posessing an internal structure Some times such borders are drawn followi...

Recognizing plants from imagery is a complex task due to their irregular nature. In this research, three tree species, Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata Sieb. & Zucc.), Hicks yew (Taxus x media), and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.), were identified using their textural properties. First, the plants were separated from their backgrounds in digital images based on a combination of textural feat...

In this paper we present how to exploit the textural information to improve scribble-based image colorization. Although many methods have been already proposed for coloring grayscale images based on a set of color scribbles inserted by a user, very few of them take into account textural properties. We demonstrate that the textural information can be extremely helpful for this purpose and it may...

BACKGROUND Wireless capsule endoscopy has been introduced as an innovative, non-invasive diagnostic technique for evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract, reaching places where conventional endoscopy is unable to. However, the output of this technique is an 8 hours video, whose analysis by the expert physician is very time consuming. Thus, a computer assisted diagnosis tool to help the physici...

Cervical cancer is considered to be the deadliest gynaecological cancers which affect women and it now seems that the only way it could be controlled is by employing an automated system. Of all the visual parameters which the brain uses to make sense of the world around us the textural features is the best reliable one. Here we have tried to exploit this concept by analyzing the textural featur...