BACKGROUND Here, we aimed to determine the clinical spectrum, predictors and outcomes of paradoxical tuberculosis-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) in a resource-limited setting. METHODS In a prospective cohort, we studied 254 patients with tuberculosis and HIV coinfection commencing antiretroviral therapy (ART). We identified patients with TB-IRIS using the International ...

Iris liveness detection is an important module in an iris recognition system to reduce the risks of being spoofed by fake iris patterns at the sensor input. A general framework is proposed to detect multiple types of fake iris images based on texture analysis. A novel iris pattern representation method namely hierarchical visual codebook (HVC) is proposed to encode the distinctive and robust te...

The randomness of iris pattern makes it one of the most reliable biometric traits. On the other hand, the complex iris image structure and various sources of intra-class variations result in the difficulty of iris representation. Although diverse iris recognition methods have been proposed, the fundamentals of iris recognition have not a unified answer. As a breakthrough of this problem, we fou...

purpose: to present a new reliable and accurate iris recognition method applicable in identification systems. methods: the system was implemented and tested on 876 standard iris images (daugman iris images database) from 876 persons of different nationalities via image processing techniques. results: false accept reject (far) and false reject reject (frr) were smaller in our suggested method as...

Purpose Retinoblastomas' growth rate is dependent on their ability to induce neovascularization. Leucine-rich α-2-glycoprotein-1 (LRG-1) was recently reported to be upregulated in human retinal disease with neovascular pathology. The purpose of the study was to determine LRG-1 expression in human retinoblastoma and to correlate it with clinical and histopathologic parameters and to assess how i...

C entral retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) is second only to diabetic retinopathy as a vascular cause of vision loss.1 Visual morbidity and blindness are most commonly due to macular capillary nonperfusion and persistent macular edema, as well as macular hemorrhage, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment, and neovascular glaucoma.1,2 As the precipitating event in CRVO is thought to be intravascula...

This paper discusses about Enhanced iris recognition which is used to overcome some of the problem like to automate the recognition of the iris by reducing complexity and increasing algorithm speed. Various challenges are faced while working with the iris recognition system. Iris recognition systems make use of the uniqueness of the iris patterns to derive a unique mapping. Iris recognition, as...

In this paper, a new iris Segmentation method is presented. An iris recognition system acquires a human eye image, segments the iris region from the rest of the image, normalizes this segmented image and encodes features to get a compact iris template. Performance of all subsequent stages in an iris recognition system is highly dependent on correct detection of pupil-iris and iris-sclera bounda...

The interface of computer technologies and biology is having a huge impact on society. Human recognition research projects promises new life to many security-consulting. Iris recognition is considered to be the most reliable biometric authentication system. Image quality plays a crucial role in any pattern matching system. Three different iris databases have been employed for comparison of perf...