Background: Some animal infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, hydatidosis, and fascioliasis cause public health concerns and also significant economic losses. The goal of this study was to assess the rate of fascioliasis, hydatidosis, and tuberculosis in domestic animals during post-mortem inspection at Jijel slaughterhouse, North-Eastern Algeria. Methods: The present study was carried out...

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The diagnosis of Sleep Apnoea-Hypopnoea Syndrome requires the visual inspection of a recording containing a large number of physiological parameters of the patient –the polysomnogram. The purpose of this visual inspection is the identification and characterization of different types of pathological events that occur over these parameters. These events are defined by a set of morphological crite...

1 This paper presents a method to identify gravitational arcs or more generally elongated structures in a given image. The method is based on the computation of a local estimator of the elongation. The estimation of the local elongation proceed in two steps: first the local orientation of the structure is computed, then in the next step, a rotation is performed, and the marginal distributions a...

This paper describes an empirical study on typing errors made by children during a text copy exercise. The literature on text input errors is first examined, focussing on studies of errors that occur during keyboard typing. A study of errors made by children during typing is described and the results from this study are analysed using visual inspection and already published error categorisation...

We have searched for gamma-ray bursts (GRB) in the BATSE DISCLA data covering the period TJD 8365-10528. We employ an algorithm that uses the background both before and after the onset of the burst, and that requires an excess of at least 5σ over background in the energy range 50−300 keV. For the initial set of 7536 triggers, we find strong concentrations at given geographic locations of the sa...

Automatic change detection particularly in urban areas is the important tools for their management and planning. This paper presents a feature based method to detect changes in urban area using two LIDAR data sets acquired at different times. The main processes in the method are to detect the change areas through the subtraction between the two DSMs generated from the two individual LIDAR sets,...

Proof of authenticity of free hand drawings of artists is one of the major problems in history of arts especially with respect to unsigned works of famous artists. Usually the authentication is performed manually by experts based on a physical analysis of the drawing materials used, and visual inspection. This often leads to ambiguous results as the visual inspection is influenced by subjective...

Automatic visual inspection plays a growing role in today's efforts to reduce the costs of industrial production. Three to ten months of man power have to be invested for the development of a typical industrial application. In this context, a reduction of time and thus of costs will make it easier to introduce new systems. We show a solution by using several algorithms for two kinds of selectio...