Iris recognition is considered to be the most reliable and accurate biometric identification system available. Iris recognition system captures an image of an individual’s eye, the iris in the image is then meant for the further segmentation and normalization for extracting its feature. The performance of iris recognition systems depends on the process of segmentation. Segmentation is used for ...

In the second part, we selected 50 native vascular plant taxa from 44 genera and 24 families. The 49 species one subspecies are belonging to Acanthophyllum C.A.Mey., Aegopodium L., Anabasis Anemone Antennaria Gaern., Aquilegia Armeria (DC.) Willd., Astragalus Atriplex Camphorosma Caragana Lam., Cardamine Chamaerhodos Bunge, Chesniella Boriss., Cicerbita Wallr., Crucihimalaya Al-Shehbaz, O'Kane ...

Iris patterns have been proven to be unique for each individual making them useful in human identification. Segmentation and feature extraction are crucial steps in matching one iris image with another. In this paper, iris segmentation is performed using Canny edge detection and the circular Hough transform. To overcome the pupil-iris center offset as well as iris stretching due to pupil dilati...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) remains a poorly understood complication in HIV-TB patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). TB-IRIS could be associated with an exaggerated immune response to TB-antigens. We compared the recovery of IFNγ responses to recall and TB-antigens and explored in vitro innate cytokine production in TB-IRIS...

PURPOSE To investigate, through ultrasound biomicroscopy images, the presence of plateau iris configuration in eyes with narrow-angle from patients with open-angle glaucoma and in eyes with previous acute primary angle-closure and compare the biometric features of eyes with plateau iris configuration with those of normal eyes. METHODS Ultrasound biomicroscopic images from 196 patients with op...

As a reliable personal identification method, iris recognition has been widely used for a large number of applications. Since a variety of iris devices produced by different vendors may be used for some large-scale applications, it is necessary to match heterogeneous iris images against the variations of sensors, illuminators, imaging distance and imaging conditions. This paper aims to improve ...

Low resolution iris image can degrade the performance of iris recognition. A new iris image zooming method by using edge-directed image upsampling method based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation [9] is proposed to restore a single iris image into a highresolution image. By increasing the resolution of iris image, we found that the performance of iris recognition was increased.

Photoreception is a ubiquitous sensory ability found across the Metazoa, and photoreceptive organs are intricate and diverse in their structure. Although the morphology of the compound eye in Drosophila and the single-chambered eye in vertebrates have elaborated independently, the amount of conservation within the 'eye' gene regulatory network remains controversial, with few taxa studied. To be...

We describe a new species of the charismatic red-eyed treefrogs (genus Agalychnis) from middle Magdalena River valley of Colombia (05°50'8.04"N, 74°50'16.55"W, 380 m a.s.l.). The new species is readily distinguished from all species members of the group by having orange flanks with small white warts. Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences of 16S rRNA gene recovered the new species as a member o...

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) presents as an exaggerated immune reaction that occurs during dysregulated restoration in immunocompromised patients late-stage human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection who have commenced antiretroviral treatments (ART). Virtually any opportunistic pathogen can provoke this type of disorder. In review, we focus on recent developments the id...