We studied the immunological and histopathological factors that affect the prognosis of chronic rhinosinusitis under long-term low-dose macrolide therapy. Sixteen patients with chronic rhinosinusitis were given 200 mg clarithromycin or 150 mg roxithromycin orally once a day without other concurrent treatments for 2-3 months. Measurement of the serum IgE level, blood cell count and differential ...

The field of neural networks has seen significant advances in recent years with the development deep and convolutional networks. Although many current works address real-valued models, studies reveal that hypercomplex-valued parameters can better capture, generalize, represent complexity multidimensional data. This paper explores quaternion-valued network application for a pattern recognition t...

This report described Sarcocystis-like merozoites in peripheral blood smear of a woman with mild fever, rigor and musculoskeletal pain. Extracellular organisms with a pale blue cytoplasm and one or two nuclei were seen in her blood smear stained with Giemsa. Sarcocystis-like can be considered as a possible cause of some idiopathic febrile diseases.

Since its introduction in the 1940s the Pap-smear test has helped reduce the incidence of cervical cancer dramatically in countries where regular screening is standard. The automation of this procedure is an open problem that has been ongoing for over fifty years without reaching satisfactory results. Existing systems are discouragingly expensive and yet they are only able to make a correct dis...

Methods In this work, thin blood smear sub images (n=87) of different Plasmodium species were acquired from the Parasite Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Database [http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/ ImageLibrary/Malaria_il.htm]. The images were subjected to 2 d Empirical Mode Decomposition and four features namely the mean value of first Intrinsic Mode Function (IM...

OBJECTIVES A comparative study of intradermal smear in the diagnosis of malaria in symptomatic pregnant women. Venous blood served as the control. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty consecutive symptomatic pregnant women were recruited. Thick films of both venous and intradermal blood were examined. Questionnaires were used to determine patients' preference for the two techniques. Tests of statistica...

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a kind of fatal blood cancer with high death rate caused by abnormal cells’ rapid growth in the human body. The usual method to detect AML manual microscopic examination sample, which tedious and time-consuming requires skilled medical operator for accurate detection. In this work, we proposed an AlexNet-based classification model images compared its performance ...

In this work we present an automatic algorithm for detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis from stained sputum smear images applying a novel method of tubeness filtering in conjunction with Otsu thresholding and connected component analysis. This eliminates human effort and measurement error from the detection of the bacteria, which normally requires a lab technician or pathologist to load a gl...