Some microblog services encourage users to annotate themselves with multiple tags, indicating their attributes and interests. User tags play an important role for personalized recommendation and information retrieval. In order to better understand the semantics of user tags, we propose Tag Correspondence Model (TCM) to identify complex correspondences of tags from the rich context of microblog ...

Fibroepithelial polyps, also named as soft warts, skin tags, or acrochordons, are common benign lesions that may occur on trunk or exterimities. Its association with infectious agents is unclear. Herein, We report a case of extensive fibroepithelial -like polyps on the foot of an AIDS patient following radiotherapy for Kaposi's sarcoma.  

Skin tags are skin-colored, asymptomatic, pedunculated lesions located at the neck, axillae or groin. It affects any age, including infants. We report a 60-year-old Iranian woman with a giant pedunculated skin tag on the left thigh for 10 years. It measured 10 cm in length and 7 cm in width, distally.

Tags associated with social images are valuable information source for superior image search and retrieval experiences. Due to the nature of tagging, many tags associated with images are not visually descriptive. Consequently, presence of these noisy tags may reduce the effectiveness of tags’ role in image retrieval. To address this problem, we demonstrate iAVATAR (interActive VisuAlrepresentat...