BACKGROUND In a proportion of patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis who develop paradoxical immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), the clinical course of IRIS is prolonged necessitating substantial health care utilization for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Prolonged TB-IRIS has not been prospectively studied to date. We aimed to determine the proportion of patients w...

ethanolic crude extract of i. imbricata lindl. (iridaceae) was subjected to column chromatography on silica gel with varying portions of meoh: chcl3. nigicin (irisolone) was isolated and its identification carried out by ir, uv, ms, 1-d and 2-d nmr spectroscopy.

Since iris muscles control the size of the pupil, iris pattern shown in a captured iris image deforms significantly during pupil dilation/constriction. Daugman-based approaches assume the iris deformation is linear when mapping the iris to the polar rectangular format. However, iris deformation is not linear and in fact differs from person to person. To cope with the non-linear iris deformation...

This paper presents an iris recognition method based on the Morlet wavelet transform real coefficients. Firstly, it locates the iris, then makes normalization to the iris image and gets 512 columns multiplying 64 rows rectangular iris image, ensures the effective iris area. Secondly, it makes one dimension Morlet wavelet transform row by row to the iris image in the effective iris area, gets a ...

Iris belongs toIridaceae family and it is monocotyledon. Iris is one of the important ornamental and medicinal plants. 34 iris genotypes (14 species) collected from different provinces of Iran were planted at National Institute of Ornamental Plants (NIOP) Iran. All of the species evaluated for 15 quantitative traits and 30 qualitative traits. Results showed that the highest positive correlation...

PURPOSE This study was performed to examine the vascular network of the human iris using flat preparation. METHODS The ciliary body-iris structures were separated from human eyeballs, and a portion of the irises were treated with trypsin to remove the pigment granules. These iris tissues were unfolded and placed onto glass slides using flat preparation, and the vascular network of each iris w...

Iris recognition has received increasing attentions due to its distinct characteristics in recent years. An efficient approach for iris feature extraction plays a very important role in an iris recognition system. In this paper, we developed a novel method for iris feature extraction utilizing the Intersecting Cortical Model (ICM) network which is a simplified model of Pulse-Coupled Neural Netw...

Iris masks are essential in iris recognition. The purpose of having a good iris mask is to indicate which part of iris texture map is useful and which part is occluded or contains noisy artifacts such as eyelashes, eyelids and specular re ections. The accuracy of the iris mask is extremely important. The performance of the iris recognition system will decrease dramatically when iris mask is ina...

The fuzzy commitment scheme is one of most popular biometric cryptosystems that aim at securing cryptographic keys using biometrics. Because of the high recognition accuracy exhibited by the iris, iris-based fuzzy commitment schemes, among other modalities, provide the most practical performance rates. Unfortunately, existing iris-based fuzzy commitment schemes do not incorporate noise masks, g...

Purpose: To demonstrate an approach to the problems of cataract surgery in extensive iridoschisis Methods: Four eyes of 2 patients with extensive iridoschisis had cataract surgery by the same surgeon using the techniques that resembled techniques for phacoemulsification in intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS). We used low flow parameters on phacoemulsification, used super-cohesive ophthal...