Neuroimage signature from salient keypoints is highly specific to individuals and shared by close relatives

Surface matching with salient keypoints in geodesic scale space

This paper develops a new salient keypoints-based shape description which extracts the salient surface keypoints with detected scales. Salient geometric features can then be defined collectively on all the detected scale normalized local patches to form a shape descriptor for surface matching purpose. The saliency-driven keypoints are computed as local extrema of the difference of Gaussian func...

Life and Its Close Relatives

When driven by an external thermodynamic gradient, nonbiological physical systems can exhibit a wide range of behaviours usually associated with living systems. Consequently, Artificial Life researchers should be open to the possibility that there is no hard-and-fast distinction between the biological and the physical. This suggests a novel field of research: the application of biologists’ meth...

Serum Level of Soluble CD226 Receptor in Healthy Individuals is Highly Variable and Associated with Age

p63 is more sensitive and specific than 34βE12 to differentiate adenocarcinoma of prostate from cancer mimickers

Objective(s): Prostate cancer is the world’s leading cause of cancer and the second cause of cancer-related death in men after lung cancer. Differentiation of prostate adenocarcinoma from benign prostate lesions and hyperplasia sometimes cannot be done on the basis of morphologic findings. Considering the fact that in the prostate adenocarcinoma there is no basal cell layer, basal cell markers ...

Psoriasis and vitiligo are close relatives

BACKGROUND Both vitiligo and psoriasis are chronic inflammatory autoimmune diseases with genetic elements. OBJECTIVE To estimate the frequencies of psoriasis in vitiligo patients and vice versa and to compare them with healthy controls. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 1000 subjects were included, 250 of them had vitiligo, 250 had psoriasis, and 500 were healthy controls. Measurement of the ...