Interoperator test for anatomical annotation of earprints

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1246-1254

  Alberink, Ivo B ^a   Ruifrok, Arnout C C ^a   Kieckhoefer, Hartmut ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS FORENSIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical annotation; Classification; Earprint identification; Forensic science; Interoperator effects; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; EAR; EARPRINT; EDUCATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; VALIDATION PROCESS; VECTOR TEMPLATE MATCHING;

DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EAR, EXTERNAL; EUROPE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 33845564679     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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