Automatic construction of dental charts for postmortem identification

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-246

  Nassar, Diaa Eidin ^a,b   Abaza, Ayman ^a,c   Li, Xin ^a,c   Ammar, Hany ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated dental identification system (ADIS); Dental atlas; Eigenteeth; Postmortem (PM) identification; Teeth classification and numbering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISASTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOOTH ENAMEL;

AUTOMATED DENTAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (ADIS); DENTAL ATLAS; EIGENTEETH; POSTMORTEM (PM) IDENTIFICATION; TEETH CLASSIFICATION AND NUMBERING;

DENTISTRY;

EID: 44049086435     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.922452     Document Type: Article

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