Use of Raman spectroscopy and multivariate classification techniques for the differentiation of fingernails and toenails

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-345

  Widjaja, Effendi ^a   Seah, Regina Kim Hong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fingernail and toenail differentiation; Forensic science; LDA; Linear discriminant analysis; Multivariate classification techniques; PCA; Principal component analysis; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPES; POLYNOMIALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FINGERNAIL AND TOENAIL DIFFERENTIATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PCA;

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NAIL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; NAILS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 33646168521     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/000370206776342607     Document Type: Article

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