Automatic human identification based on dental X-ray images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5404, Issue , 2004, Pages 373-380

  Zhou, Jindan ^a   Abdel Mottaleb, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental biometrics; Forensic Odontology; Human Identification; Image Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DENTAL BIOMETRICS; FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; POSTMORTEM (PM);

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; X RAYS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 8844282736     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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