Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) are widely used for personal identification due to uniqueness of fingerprints. Minutiaebased fingerprint matching techniques are normally used for fingerprint matching. Fingerprint matching results and their accuracy depends on presence of valid minutiae. In this paper, we present a new technique for fingerprint image post-processing. This pos...

Donor-recipient size matching in lung transplantation (LTx) by computed tomography lung volume (CTvol) may be a reasonable approach because size matching is an anatomical issue. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of CTvol as a surrogate marker of size matching in LTx by comparing CTvol and predicted total lung capacity (pTLC) to reference total lung capacity (TLC) values.F...

THIN-LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY (TLC) has been widely applied to the qualitative analysis of complex biologic lipid mixtures (1, 2), as well as to the quantitation of selected biochemical entities (3). Quantitation by TLC has been limited,for the most part,to the recovery of separated components from the chromatoplate, followed by an independent analysis using established analytic methods. Current te...

TOGETHER investigated whether targeting multiple cardiovascular (CV) risk factors using single-pill amlodipine/atorvastatin (AML/ATO) and therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) results in greater blood pressure (BP)/lipid control and additional reduction in estimated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared with blood pressure intervention only using amlodipine (AML) + TLC. TOGETHER was a 6-week...

OBJECTIVE To describe temporal patterns in total lymphocyte count (TLC) and hemoglobin (Hgb) concentration during HIV infection and relate these patterns to changes in other markers and to clinical disease. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS Longitudinal trajectories of total lymphocyte count and hemoglobin from men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study were studied by applying, to eac...

In the view of high birth rate, a large burden of preventable mental retardation in the form of aminoaciduria occurs in developing country like India. While neonatal screening by tandem mass spectrometry (TMS) and HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatography) is almost universal in developed countries but scarce in India due to high cost. Hence, this study was planned to asses thin layer chromatog...

Height is used in allocation of donor lungs as an indirect estimate of thoracic size. Total lung capacity (TLC), determined by both height and sex, could be a more accurate functional estimation of thoracic size. Size-matching criteria based on height versus predicted TLC was retrospectively evaluated, and, furthermore, whether a TLC mismatch was related to clinical and functional complications...

The purpose of this research paper is to define a critical step in studying the statistics of fingerprint minutiae to reliably extract minutiae from the fingerprint images. It is necessary to employ the image enhancement techniques prior to minutiae extraction to obtain a more reliable estimate of the minutiae locations. Thus, fingerprint Image enhancement is to make the image clearer for easy ...