The biconcave shape and corresponding deformability of the human red blood cell (RBC) is an essential feature of its biological function. This feature of RBCs can be critically affected by genetic or acquired pathological conditions. In this review, we highlight new dynamic in vitro assays that explore various hereditary blood disorders and parasitic infectious diseases that cause disruption of...

In this paper a multi-channel speech enhancement framework for distant speech acquisition in noisy and reverberant environments for Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is proposed. The system is evaluated for its use in an assistive vocal interface for physically impaired and speech-impaired users. The framework utilises the Spatially Pre-processed S...

Since breath sound (BS) contains important indicators of respiratory health and disease, analysis and detection of BS has become an important topic, with diagnostic and assessment of treatment capabilities. In this paper, the identification and classification of respiratory disorders based on the enhanced perceptual and cepstral feature set (PerCepD) is proposed. The hybrid PerCepD feature can ...

an outbreak of malignant catarrhal fever (mcf), a fatal viral disease in indigenous tanzanian shorthorn zebu in ngorongoro district of tanzania during the period of june 2004 has been described. the disease was diagnosed by clinical, post mortem findings and the virus was identified using molecular characterization study. the history and clinical features included pyrexia, cornel opacity, nasal...

Feature analysis and classification detection of abnormal cells from images for pathological analysis are an important issue for the realization of computer assisted disease diagnosis. This paper studies a method for cervical squamous epithelial cells. Based on cervical cytological classification standard and expert diagnostic experience, expressive descriptors are extracted according to morpho...

various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) may be useful in treating pathological skin picking (psp). this study sought to assess effectiveness of citalopram in comparison with placebo in treating psp. forty five individuals with psp were recruited in a four-week, randomized clinical trial of citalopram (20 mg/day) in comparison with placebo. study measures ass...

malignancy and tumor in ent are less common but more important, also they have not any certain sign until they progress thus it will be so important that we consider some abnormal common signs when we are examine patients until do not miss them, this study was conducted to establish the various clinical modes of presentation of pharyngeal neoplasm and their correlation with final histopathologi...