Sarcoidosis and smoking: An unlikely duo

Listeria Meningitis: An Unlikely Pathogen in an Unlikely Host

Although a broad range of organisms must be considered in the diagnosis of infectious meningitis, viral and bacterial causes are most commonly observed. Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis are some of the more commonly isolated pathogens in bacterial meningitis. This illness typically presents with a well-documented set of signs and symptoms. The followi...

Aging: Cancer – an unlikely couple

Concept Maps and AI: an Unlikely Marriage?

Concept maps are a graphical representation of a person’s (or group of persons’) understanding of a domain. As such, it can be considered a knowledge representation scheme. However, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community frowns on the use of the term “knowledge representation” to refer to concept maps, because they cannot be readily translated to a formal representation for inference or oth...

Computer Science and Biology: An Unlikely Pair

from the first installment (IEEE Intelligent Systems, Nov./Dec. 2001, vol. 16, no. 6) to this second one, and several accepted manuscripts will spill over to future issues of IEEE Intelligent Systems. This outstanding community support reflects the interest and excitement that permeates the field. In a very real and immediate sense, our biomedical colleagues today are running the experiments an...

Caffey disease: an unlikely collagenopathy.

Infantile cortical hyperostosis (also known as Caffey disease) is characterized by hyperirritability, acute inflammation of soft tissues, and profound alterations of the shape and structure of the underlying bones, particularly the long bones, mandible, clavicles, or ribs. In this issue of the JCI, Gensure et al. undertook fine mapping of the genetic locus for this disease in a large kindred of...