Medical vision: web and mobile medical image retrieval system based on google cloud vision

The application of information technology is rapidly utilized in the medical system. There is also a massive development in the automatic method for recognizing and detecting objects in the real world. In this study, we present a system called Medical Vision which is designed for people who has no expertise in medical. Medical Vision is a web and mobile-based application to give an initial knowledge in a medical image. This system has 5 features; object detection, web detection, object labeling, safe search, and image properties. These features are run by embedding Google Vision API in the system. We evaluate this system by observing the result of some medical images which inputted into the system. The results showed that our system presents a promising performance and able to give relevant information related to the given image.

Are new vision standards and tests needed for military aircrew using 3D stereo helmet-mounted displays?

Visual standards for military aviators were historically set in the 1920s with requirements based on the visual systems of aircraft at the time, and these standards have changed very little despite significant advances in aircraft technology. Helmet-mounted displays (HMDs) today enable pilots to keep their head out of the cockpit while flying and can be monocular, biocular or binocular in design. With next generation binocular HMDs, flight data can be displayed in three-dimensional stereo to declutter information presented, improving search times and potentially improve overall performance further. However, these new visually demanding technologies place previously unconsidered stresses on the human visual system. As such, new medical vision standards may be required for military aircrew along with improved testing methods to accurately characterise stereo acuity.

Imágenes de la “locura”, la “enfermedad mental” y la “depresión” en la ciudad de Sevilla

Resumen: El artículo presenta los resultados del estudio “Salud mental: imá- genes y realidades”, referido a las imágenes sociales asociadas a tres términos relativos a trastornos mentales: “locura”, “enfermedad mental” y “depresión”. A partir de un diseño internacional se entrevistaron en la ciudad de Sevilla 920 personas adultas, según un método de cuotas a partir de las principales variables sociodemográficas y mediante un Cuestionario Socio-antropológico, utilizado en un proyecto multinacional del Centro Colaborador de la OMS en Salud Mental de Lille (Francia). El cuestionario pide a las personas entrevistadas que relacionen determinadas afirmaciones sobre conductas, síntomas, causas y consecuencias a las tres categorías elegidas, explorando con ellos los aspectos cognitivos de las actitudes y representaciones mentales de la población. Los datos obtenidos fueron tratados con estadísticas descriptivas y posteriormente con la técnica de análisis multivariante de los Conglomerados Jerárquicos. En conjunto muestran la existencia de una diversidad de atribuciones que diferencian entre esas tres categorías, relacionando la “locura” con contenidos de violencia, extrañeza e incurabilidad, mezclando esos contenidos con una visión más medica en el caso de la “enfermedad mental” y diferenciando claramente la “depresión” Componentes similares a los encontrados en estudios internacionales y que plantean además cuestiones importantes sobre la dinámica social del estigma y su evolución, en función de la difusión de conocimientos profesionales, que deberá ser explorada en posteriores estudios. Images of “madness”, “mental illness” and “depression” in the city of Seville Abstract: The article presents the results of the study “mental health: images and realities” referred to the social images associated with three terms relating to mental disorders: “madness”, “mental illness” and “depression”. They met in the city of Seville, from an international design, 920 adults according to a quota method based on the main demographic variables and using a Socio-anthropological questionnaire, used in a multinational project of the WHO Collaborating Center the Mental Health of Lille (France). The questionnaire asks respondents to relate certain assertions about behaviors, symptoms, causes, and consequences to the three chosen categories, exploring with them the cognitive aspects of attitudes and mental representations of the population. The data obtained were treated with descriptive statistics and later with the technique of multivariate analysis of hierarchical conglomerates. Together they show the existence of a diversity of assertions that differentiate between those three categories, relating the “madness” with contents of violence, strangeness and hopeless, mixing these contents with one more medical vision of “mental disease” and clearly differentiating the “depression”. Components that are similar to those found in international studies and that posed also important issues about the social dynamics of stigma and its evolution, based on the dissemination of professional knowledge, which must be explored in subsequent studies.

The challenges of diagnosis and treatment of dementia in Down’s syndrome

ObjectivesPeople with Down syndrome (DS) are at high risk for developing dementia and early diagnosis is vital in enhancing quality of life. Our aim was to compare our practice to consensus recommendations on evaluation, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of individuals with DS who develop dementia. We also aimed to establish the average time taken to make a diagnosis of dementia and to commence pharmacotherapy, and to assess tolerability to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.MethodsRetrospective chart review in an exhaustive sample containing all current service users attending our service with DS and a diagnosis of dementia (n=20).ResultsThe sample was 75% female and 70% had a moderate intellectual disability. The average age at diagnosis of dementia was 52.42 years old. The average time to diagnosis from first symptom was 1.13 years and the average time to commence pharmacotherapy was 0.23 years. A total of 17 patients commenced on acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, and of these seven discontinued medication due to side-effects or lack of efficacy.ConclusionsThe results on anticholinesterases add to the limited pool of data on treatment of dementia in DS. There was an identified need to improve the rates of medical, vision and hearing assessments, and prospective screening. Deficiencies in screening and diagnosis may be addressed by implementing a standardised dementia assessment pathway to include prospective screening and longitudinal assessment using easily administered scales. We highlight the importance of improving the diagnostic process, as a vital window of opportunity to commence a comprehensive care plan may be lost.

Clinical translation of optical and optoacoustic imaging

Macroscopic optical imaging has rather humble technical origins; it has been mostly implemented by photographic means using appropriate filters, a light source and a camera yielding images of tissues. This approach relates to human vision and perception, and is simple to implement and use. Therefore, it has found wide acceptance, especially in recording fluorescence and bioluminescence signals. Yet, the difficulty in resolving depth and the dependence of the light intensity recorded on tissue optical properties may compromise the accuracy of the approach. Recently, optical technology has seen significant advances that bring a new performance level in optical investigations. Quantitative real-time multi-spectral optical and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) methods enable high-resolution quantitative imaging of tissue and disease biomarkers and can significantly enhance medical vision in diagnostic or interventional procedures such as dermatology, endoscopy, surgery, and various vascular and intravascular imaging applications. This performance is showcased herein and examples are given to illustrate how it is possible to shift the paradigm of optical clinical translation.

THE GHOST IN THE CLINIC: GOTHIC MEDICINE AND CURIOUS FICTION IN SAMUEL WARREN'SDIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN

IN 1856, WHEN MANY VICTORIAN PHYSICIANS WERE STRUGGLING TO DEFINE A MODEL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, the reviewer of one collection of case histories voiced his dismay at the physician-author's preference for “dreadful incidents” and “cases exceptional and strange” (“Works” 473). Indeed, although physicians of the clinical era did not disguise their efforts to achieve a new kind of discourse, productive of a “realist” vision, few acknowledge how often the “clinical” case history of the nineteenth century also shares the romantic discourse of the Gothic, especially its interest in the supernatural and the unexplainable and its narrative aim of arousing suspense, horror, and astonishment in the reader. Literary critics have also focused primarily on the association of medical narrative with a realist literary discourse. Nineteenth-century physicians did campaign for the formal, objective, and professional clinical discourse that serves as their contribution to a realist aesthetic, in the process explicitly rejecting eighteenth-century medicine's fascination with “the curious” and its subterranean affiliation with the unknown, the unexplainable, and the subjective. But, as I show in this article, a discourse of “the curious,” allied with a Gothic literary aesthetic, stubbornly remained a critical element of many case histories, though it often presented under the mask of the more acceptable term, “interesting.” The discourse of Gothic romance in the case history provides a narrative frame that, unlike the essentially realist clinical discourse, could make sense of the physician's curious gaze, which had become nearly unrecognizable as a specifically medical vision. Indeed, a “curious” medical discourse haunts even case histories of the high clinical era, late in the century; and it energizes the nineteenth-century Gothic novel. Samuel Warren's novelPassages from the Diary of a Late Physician–deplored in the quotation above–illuminates this tradition of “Gothic medicine” as it plays out in the nineteenth-century novel. This tradition, I argue, provides the novel with a powerful model of cultural contamination and conflict in its yoking of disparate discourses. Gothic medicine demonstrates the importance of clinical medicine to literary romance, and it cannot help but reveal the ghost of “the curious” in the clinic.