Human identification from dental X-ray images based on the shape and appearance of the teeth

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-197

  Nomir, Omaima ^a,b   Abdel Mottaleb, Mohamed ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Egypt)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Antemortem (AM) radiographs; Biometrics; Dental images; Forcefield; Forensic odontology; Fourier descriptors; Human identification; Image segmentation; Postmortem (PM) radiographs

Indexed keywords

ANTEMORTEM RADIOGRAPHS; DENTAL BIOMETRICS; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION;

BIOMETRICS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECOGNITION;

EID: 34249313691     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2007.897245     Document Type: Article

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