Clinical mycology laboratories now prepare fewer tease mounts of filamentous fungi but increasingly use a variety of tape touch or Scotch Tape methods to microscopically study molds. Mounts are often prepared with clear cellophane tape by a procedure similar to that described in Larone’s Third Edition of Medically Important Fungi: a Guide to Identification (1). Because it is not the most common...

Ever since Koch first cultivated the tubercle bacillus, methods have been sought to hasten its growth (in vitro). In his original communication Koch’ described a technique of examining cultures of tubercle bacilli grown in coagulated blood serum placed in watch glasses or hollow glass slides. He examined these preparations by low-power magnification and was able to detect growth in one week. Pr...

Microarray studies have become a significant source of large biological datasets. Large changes in gene expression between two conditions can be identified, with high confidence, across many orders of magnitude of absolute expression. However, the identification of small changes of low-level expression with confidence is hampered by a variety of method-related factors and it is important to sep...

Filariasis is a major burden in India in states like Andhra Pradesh. With launching of global filariasis elimination program it has become necessary to use sensitive and accurate methods for diagnosis of filariae as compared to conventional methods. We in this study tried to compare the results of detection of microfilariae with conventional slide methods compared with the ELISA method. 90 samp...

the development of a conceptual model that best accounts for the different parameters influencing lnapl fate and transport in groundwater is ultimate the key to a successful simulation of lnapl concentration in groundwater. characterization of hydrocarbon sources and identification of areas with heavy lnapl loadings from point and non-point sources is important for land use planners and environ...

This is the first in a series of papers presenting case studies in modern large-scale constrained optimization, the purpose of which is to illustrate how recent advances in algorithms and modeling languages have made it easy to solve difficult optimization problems using off-the-shelf software. In this first paper, we consider four trajectory optimization problems: (a) how to operate a train ef...

The progression of breast cancer can be quantified in lymph node whole-slide images (WSIs). We describe a novel method for effectively performing classification of wholeslide images and patient level breast cancer grading. Our method utilises a deep neural network. The method performs classification on small patches and uses model averaging for boosting. In the first step, region of interest pa...

1950;17;202-205 Dis Chest SCHWARTZ MARTIN M. CUMMINGS, MARGARET C. DRUMMOND and HARRIET B. Sensitivity Testing A Slide Culture Method for Streptomycin http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/17/2/202 can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services ) ISSN:0096-0217 http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprints...

This paper proposes a method, combining color and layout features, for identifying documents captured from lowresolution handheld devices. On one hand, the document image color density surface is estimated and represented with an equivalent ellipse and on the other hand, the document shallow layout structure is computed and hierarchically represented. The combined color and layout features are ...

Computerized analysis of digital pathology images offers the potential of improving clinical care (e.g. automated diagnosis) and catalyzing research (e.g. discovering disease subtypes). There are two key challenges thwarting computerized analysis of digital pathology images: first, whole slide pathology images are massive, making computerized analysis inefficient, and second, diverse tissue reg...