In cartoon drawings, hair is a strong vehicle of personality, emotions and style. In this paper, we present a powerful procedure to imitate the appearance of cartoon-like hair with a small set of parameters. Our approach is inspired by an inking technique called feathering, which consists of drawing hatches along the hair orientation while emphasizing the highlights with ink stains. Our system ...

A 39-year-old male with a history of cocaine abuse presents to the emergency room with pain in the right leg and fever (39oC) 6 days after injecting himself in the thigh with midazolam pills diluted in tap water to control symptoms of withdrawal. Physical examination revealed rubor, swelling and tenderness of the thigh without crepitation, suggestive of cellulitis. Laboratory findings consisted...

OBJECTIVE The incidence of endocervical adenocarcinoma has increased steadily over the past two decades. Since the Bethesda System was introduced, the diagnosis of atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS) has also risen and now accounts for 0.46-1.83% of all cervical (Pap) smears. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the significance of a diagnosis of AGUS using cytohis...