background: direct identification of leishmania species in giemsa-stained slides without parasite culturing in the areas where multiple species exist, is very helpful. this study was designed to isolate leishmani spp. from giemsa-stained smears and to characterize them by pcr technique. methods: a total of 48 giemsa-stained slides from confirmed cases of leishmaniasis were examined under a ligh...

Based on artistic techniques for the creation of stained glass, we introduce a method to automatically create images in stained glass stylization of images. Our algorithm first applies segmentation, and performs region simplification to merge and simplify the segments. The system then queries a database of glass swatch images and computes an optimal matching subset based on color and texture me...

introduction: dna extraction methods are very important for genetics research and diagnostic tests. in these methods are also important for detecting genetic diseases or in cancers for investigating genetic changes during cancer progression or treatment. therefore, selection of the best method for dna extraction from different samples such as bone marrow (bm) or peripheral blood (pb) and their ...

We present an algorithm that models stained glass in a physicallyrealistic manner. Stained glass is made by melting glass material with metal oxides that determine the color. Metal oxides are scattered in the glass, and we model it by distributing metal oxides in the volume defined by the glass. We render our stained glass model using a modified photon mapping. Our model is capable of modeling ...