-Texture classification is a major issue in image analysis and pattern recognition. A number of methods are proposed in the literature including Local Binary Pattern (LBP). The LBP variant (s) plays an active role to extract texture features for texture classification. These are rotation invariant, noise sensitive or noise insensitive mehods. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages...

BACKGROUND Abdominal muscles are important spinal stabilizers and its poor coordination, as seen in diastasis of rectus abdominis (DRA), may contribute to chronic low back pain (LBP). However, this has not yet been studied directly. OBJECTIVES To conduct a pilot study to examine the association between DRA and LBP. METHODS Using a digital caliper, standard clinical DRA measurement was perfo...

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is invariant to the monotonic changes in the grey scale domain. This property enables LBP to present a texture descriptor that can be useful in applications dealing with the local illumination changes. However, the existing versions of LBP are not able to handle image illumination changes, especially in outdoor environments. These non-patterned illumination changes di...

Abstract Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is a simple yet very efficient texture operator which labels the pixels of an image by threshold the neighbourhood of each pixel and considers the result as a binary number. Due to its discriminative power and computational simplicity, LBP texture operator has become a popular approach in various applications. It can be seen as a unifying approach to the trad...

Lower-back pain (LBP) is a common secondary condition following lower-limb amputation. The purpose of this study was to investigate LBP prevalence and the relationship between LBP and physical activity (PA) levels in a national sample of persons with traumatic transfemoral amputation (TFA). Questionnaires were mailed to a random sample of people with traumatic TFA (n = 322) from the New Zealand...

BACKGROUND Shortening of the iliotibial band (ITB) has been considered to be associated with low back pain (LBP). It is theorized that ITB tightness in individuals with LBP is a compensatory mechanism following hip abductor muscle weakness. However, no study has clinically examined this theory. The purpose of this study was to investigate the muscle imbalance of hip abductor muscle weakness and...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding protein (LBP) is a normal plasma protein and an acute phase reactant important for host responses to Gram-negative bacteria and LPS. LBP forms high affinity complexes with LPS which bind to CD14, a monocyte surface protein, to initiate the release of inflammatory mediators. We found that human primary hepatocytes synthesize LBP and that the synthesis is up-regul...

background: low back pain (lbp) is the second most common medical complaint. it’s estimated that about 70-85% of the population will suffer at least one episode of lbp during their life. the aim of present study was to compare the effects of massage and modality in patient with sub-acute and chronic non-specific lbp methods: in this clinical trial study 30 women (meanage: 33.96±10.93) with sub-...