BACKGROUND Patients with ORL lesions sometimes present to the general emergency room. This study reviews the common ENT admissions via emergency room in a sub-urban town in Nigeria. METHODS A retrospective study spanning five years from January 2009 to December 2013. RESULTS A total of 211 cases consisting of 131 (62.1%) males with male: female ratio 1.6: 1 and a mean age of 32.8 ± 22.4 yea...

Abstract Background: L’absence de données congolaises relatives à l’épidémiologie, aux plaintes et signes cliniques de la sphère ORL dans l’infection par le VIH en consultation d’otorhinolaryngologie justifie l’initiation de la présente étude. L’objectif de notre étude était de décrire les aspects sociodémographiques et sémiologiques de la sphère ORL chez les patients avec infection à VIH/SIDA ...

In this paper, we propose a new supervised clustering algorithm, coined as the Homogeneous Clustering (HC), to find the number and initial locations of the hidden units in Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network classifiers. In contrast to the traditional clustering algorithms introduced for this goal, the proposed algorithm is a supervised procedure where the number and initial locations of...

Aim. To investigate the effect of more than 25-year cigarette smoking on choroidal and retinal thickness, using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Methods. Thirty-one smokers and 25 age- and sex-matched nonsmokers, serving as control group, were submitted to slit-lamp biomicroscopy and dilated fundoscopy, SD-OCT, measurements of intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal th...

In this thesis, we address the problem of bandwidth allocation and link scheduling in order to maximize aggregate user utilities in wireless ad-hoc networks. Unlike previous works that aimed to maximize aggregate throughput or some artificial utility metrics, our goal will be to optimize the true aggregate utility as reported by the applications themselves. We first develop and implement two ce...

This paper demonstrates a novel lower dimension multi resolution analysis technique to represent facial images using wavelet transform and decimation, which alleviate heavy computational load, reduce noise, produce a representation in low frequency domain and hence make the facial images less sensitive to facial expressions and small occlusions. All coefficients of wavelet transform do not have...

Background: To study the prevalence of Otolaryngological (ORL) diseases in a tertiary hospital. Methods: Five hundred patients that were first attendee at the ORL clinic of the Obafemi Awolowo University teaching hospital Ile-Ife were randomly selected from the clinic lists. The age, sex, presenting complaints, and the diagnosis were noted. Analysis of the data were done using SPSS version 10.0...

Les localisations ORL extra ganglionnaires de la tuberculose sont rares. La symptomatologie clinique ainsi que les examens paracliniques sont souvent trompeurs,posant ainsi le problème de diagnostic différentiel avec la pathologie tumorale. Nous rapportons 15 cas de localisations extra ganglionnaires de tuberculose, colligés au service ORL et CCF de l’Hopital Militaire Avicenne de Marrakech col...