New software for computer-assisted dental-data matching in Disaster Victim Identification and long-term missing persons investigations: "DAVID Web"

Forensic Science International

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Clement, J G ^a,b,c   Winship, V ^b   Ceddia, J ^c   Al Amad, S ^a,b   Morales, A ^b   Hill, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MEDICINE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer aided identification; DAVID web; Disaster Victim Identification; Interpol forms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DAVID WEB; DISASTER; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED CROSS; VICTIM;

EID: 33646490014     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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