Comorbidities among adults with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) have been extensively explored, but there is limited data regarding comorbidities children HS. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence pediatric patients HS using an aggregated, de-identified patient database. Pediatric (<18 years old) were identified in Explorys, a cloud-based electronic health record database co...

nity Systems (ICS) comes to the knowledge and technology capital of Norway, Trondheim. By its motto “Future requires Interdisciplinarity” the organizers continue to combine contributions on foundations, technology, applications and socialization of virtual communities. Besides paper presentations, discussions, brainstorming and other, creative activities are enabled. The present LNI volume cont...

In medical image retrieval, the images are usually subject to a large range of variability. In order to classify medical images, we therefore propose the use of local representations, which are small square windows taken from the images. This approach is combined with a fast approximate k-nearest neighbor technique and yields state-of-the-art results on a medical image database of 1617 images.

This work was supported by grant from Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India through F.I.S.T. SR/SO/HS/17/2003 and SR/SO/HS/95/2007 to MMG and Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to RAS [10-2(5)/2003(II)-E.U.II] and University Grants Commission to AP [2-89/98(SA-I)] from Government of India, New Delhi. Endocrinology. First published ah...

Components of an Ultrasound Quality Assurance Program 257 Quality Assurance and Preventive Maintenance 257 Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms 257 Tissue Properties Represented in Phantoms 257 Typical Quality Assurance Phantom Design 257 Cautions About Phantom Desiccation 258 Basic Quality Control Tests 259 Visual Inspection 259 Transducer Choice 259 System Sensitivity 260 Photography and Gray-Scale Hard...