Information obtained from redness grading can assist clinician for diagnosis and in making clinical decision. This research work aims to mimic human perception of fibrovascular redness using features extracted from color entropy. Gaussian process regression with the radial basis function kernel has been employed to fuse relevant features and establ

Comparative leaf micromorphology study was conducted in eight taxa of Acanthaceae from Peninsular Malaysia. Eight chosen taxa were Acanthus ebracteatus Vahl, A. ilicifolius L., A. volubilis Wall, A. montanus T. Anderson, Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.) Wall. ex Nees, Asystasia gangetica subsp. micrantha (Nees) Ensermu, Chroesthes longifolia (Wigh

Organic fast food among the Malaysian consumers is an emerging theme of discourse. As more people are eating foods bought from fast food restaurants, this eating out lifestyle further heightened the problems of unhealthy eating and unbalanced diets (Azlina et al., 2011). So, to help consumers improve their personal wellness, fast food restaurants s

Objective. The aim of this study was to compare the retinal vasculature complexity between emmetropia, and myopia in younger subjects. Methods. A total of 82 patients (24.12 ± 1.25 years) with two types of refractive conditions, myopia and emmetropia were enrolled in this study. Refraction data were converted to spherical equivalent refraction. Th

In this paper, we perform comparative analysis between different classifiers using the same experimental setup for supervised retinal vessel segmentation. The aim of this paper is to find supervised classifier that can obtain good segmentation accuracy with minimal training time. Minimizing the training time is essential when dealing with biomedica

Current state-of-the art supervised vessel segmentation methods require large number of feature vectors to construct a good model. In this paper, we propose a framework to optimally search for optimal features as inputs to Artificial Neural Network (ANN) trained by Scaled Conjugate Gradient (SCG). SCG is known to speed-up the learning stage in a su

Retina image quality is affected by numerous factors including aging, refractive condition, and media opacity. Distracters that exist in certain age groups may not be present in another. This is evident when the retinal nerve fiber layer is more visible in younger age group, tricking the vessel segmentation algorithm to label it as vessel thus affe

Introduction Management of syndesmotic injury is very much open to debate. Controversies aroused in many aspects, and yet no single treatment is considered as gold standard. The surgical management is still evolving. Positional screw has been widely used as a stabilizer while waiting for healing but the utilization of screw itself is varied. Kirsch

Background: Experimental neurodegeneration can be induced by two vessel occlusion intervention (2VO). Nigella sativa (Linn.) seeds extract (NSSE) has recently shown to enhance memory and learning task performances in rats with 2VO. Prevention of neuroinflammation and/or of toxic free radical formation are possible mechanisms. The glial fibrillary

The first aim of this study is to investigate the principles of human rights in the Arabic language textbooks for the selected secondary schools in the northern border in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Secondly, to analyze these principles through method and strategies they were taught and how the students internalize them. In order to achieve these