We report the first case of prurigo pigmentosa in the German literature. For over a year, a 16-year old white girl developed an immensely pruritic symmetrical reticular, papulovesicular eruption on the trunk, axillae and pubic region. Histologically a superficial perivascular spongiotic and lichenoid inflammatory pattern with prominent pigmentary incontinence in older lesions was observed. Topical corticosteroids and systemic antihistamines had no effect. Systemic corticosteroids and diaminophenylsulphone (DADPS) produced improvement but could not prevent recurrences. Healing occurred only after 4 weeks of systemic-minocycline.
In this paper an integrated approach is presented to understand and control the influence of texture on shape perception. Following Gibsons hypotheses, which states that texture is a mathematically and psychological sufficient stimulus for surface perception, we evalute different perceptual cues. Starting out from a perception-based texture classification introduced by Tamura et al. we build up a uniform sampled parameter space. For the synthesis of some of our textures we use the texture description language HiLDTe. To acquire the desired texture specification we take advantage of a genetic algorithm. Employing these textures we practice a number of pychological tests to evaluate the significance of the different texture features, A comprehension of the results derived from the psychological tests is done to constitute new shape analysing techniques. Since the vanishing point seems to be an important visual cue we introduce the hough transform.A prospective of future work within the field of visual computing is provided within the final section. 220/SPIE Vol. 2179 Downloaded From: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 06/30/2016 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx Recently, more attention was given in Computer Graphics to the role of texture as an information carrier, thus increasing the attention of psychological definition and aspects of texture. In this context, textures were successfully applied for the representation of multiparameter data sets in Scientific Visualization applications [1], [28]. SPIE Vol. 2179 /221 Downloaded From: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 06/30/2016 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx
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