Homage to Professor Jean-Michel Thomine

Carles , Thierry Lamireau and Jean - Michel Guillard

We report on the case of a girl with type 1 Gaucher’s disease, treated from age 9 to 15 with highdose enzyme replacement therapy. This treatment did not avert the development of an extensive mutilating hepatic fibrosis warranting a liver transplantation, which was followed by death. In some cases of Gaucher’s disease, alternative strategies such as fractionated or further increased ERT, gene th...

Tribute to 100 years of Professor Dr. Michel Abu Jamra

prepare masters and doctoral theses. He actively participated rofessor Michel Abu Jamra was born on August 13, 1916. Durng the 10th Recycling Course of Hematology and Transfusion edicine of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein held in conjuncion with the MD Anderson Cancer Center, we could not fail to ay tribute to the 100 years that would have been completed y this eminent professor. This homage...

Co-directeur de thèse: M. Jean-Michel MAZIN

XX IS SIFT SCALE INVARIANT ? Jean - Michel Morel

This note is devoted to a mathematical exploration of whether Lowe’s Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) [21], a very successful image matching method, is similarity invariant as claimed. It is proved that the method is scale invariant only if the initial image blurs is exactly guessed. Yet, even a large error on the initial blur is quickly attenuated by this multiscale method, when the sc...

Homage to Atlantic City.

In this article, I reflect on the unique value for the societies of academic internal medicine of their annual spring meetings that were held in Atlantic City for two generations prior to 1977 and consider whether lessons remain from those past experiences.