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Behind the zipper and in front of the protective cloth panel overlying the zipper, she found the spent bullet."
We first demonstrated that there was an inherent geometric pattern to the background reflectance in normal fundus images [ 26 ] . We then developed a semi-automated interactive method based on these patterns to level the background reflectance of a drusen-containing image independent of the reflectivity of the overlying drusen (preliminary results presented in abstract form [ 27 ] ). This allows the use of a global threshold to segment the drusen accurately.
Bmp4 is expressed in multiple tissues during embryonic development, including the heart, lung, kidney, brain, and eye [ 19 24 ] . In the eye, Bmp4 expression is first identified in the distal optic vesicle and overlying surface ectoderm at the 8-12 somite stage and later in the dorsal portion of the developing optic cup [ 31 ] . Lens induction is absent in homozygous Bmp4 mutants and can be rescued by exogenous BMP4 protein [ 31 ] .
Mutations in the human KIT gene have been identified as a cause of Piebaldism, a rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanogenesis characterized by patchy absence of pigmentation of the skin and overlying hair.
The SMA-negative cells in all three cases showed distinct negativity to ER and CK8, in sharp contrast with the overlying epithelial cells that showed strong ER and CK8 positivities (data not shown).