With the advancement of endourology, a great variety biomaterial devices have been developed. Several studies reported that formation biofilm and device infection are commonly observed manifestations lead to urinary tract infections. An indwelling double J ureteral stent carries significant risk; negative urine culture does not rule out colonized stent. Hence, assessing extent colonization with...

Texture segmentation is a process of segmenting an image into differently textured regions. This paper is aimed at the segmentation of multitextured images by using Optimized Local Ternary Patterns (OLTP), a new texture model which is recently proposed for texture analysis. This paper uses unsupervised texture segmentation method with the application of optimized local ternary patterns for find...

We present a new approach to a componentware development methodology based on a system of process patterns. We argue that organizing the development process by means of a pattern system results in higher flexibility compared to traditional ways of defining development processes. This is especially important in the context of componentware. Finally, we propose a pattern catalog with a selection ...

In this paper we evaluate several extensions of Local Binary Patterns to color images. In particular, we investigate their robustness with respect to changes in the illuminant color temperature. To do so, we recovered the spectral reflectances of 1360 texture images from the Outex 13 data set. Then, we rendered the images as if they were taken under 33 different illuminants. For each combinatio...

background: the main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of the main bacteria which are responsible forurinary tract, blood stream, cerebrospinal fluid, lower respiratory tract, and wound infections in hamadan province in the west of iran. materials and methods:in this study,a total of 773 urinary tract, 273 blood stream, 13 cerebrospina...

background: dermatophytosis is a very common fungal infection of skin, hair and nail caused by dermatophytes. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical patterns and etiology of dermatophytosis in babol, northern iran. methods: from september 2003 to december 2005, 200 patients with dermatophytosis who were admitted in the dermatology clinic of babol medical university were studied....